Why College Is Demanding 'Student" Pay $94K For NYC Dorm Room

NEW YORK (AP) — Yes, New York apartments can be expensive. Very. But a college charging $94,000 for a dorm room?

That's what Hunter College wants from one tenant staying in a 100-square-foot room.

The room is a single, which is never cheap. But there's a lot more to it.

The occupant is Lisa Palmer, a 32-year-old former student who hasn't registered for classes at Hunter for two years. The college says in a lawsuit filed in Manhattan Supreme Court last week that she was denied student housing in 2016 because, well, she wasn't taking classes so was no longer a student.

A renter of in the area of the dorm, on East 25th Street in the Gramercy /Kips Bay area of Manhattan, wold be hard pressed to find a studio for less than $2,000 a month.

The college says in its lawsuit that if she wanted to maintain the dorm room, she shouldn't have dropped out. She first enrolled at the college in 2010 and told the Post that administrators had refused to let her register for 2016 classes because she had disputed a tuition and housing bill.

Palmer, a geography major at the time who the Post reported now works at an architecture firm, refused to leave the room, she acknowledges, even after being notified it would cost her $150 a day.

Some semester, Palmer said, she'll register for classes and finish her degree.

"I feel like every semester is a new opportunity to register for courses," Palmer told CBS New York. "I think I should just stay and fight the case."

A Hunter College spokesman said he cannot comment on pending litigation.

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