The Rockefeller University

Dropped by for Open House NY and received a superb, lengthy tour of the beautiful riverfront (well, mostly FDR-​front until 2019) campus from their Dir. of Comm. and am considering a future career here.

It’s pretty awesome. One of the best research institutions in the world. Certainly the best location in the world. Beautiful closed campus by a river with lots of greenery in the middle of NYC. It treats its employees generously.

Awesome staff. Free happy hours 3X a week if you know someone affiliated with the university. Amazing event parties, and great new management

Loved coming here for a work function. Easy to park in lot across the street. Cool iron gates lead u to a granite and marble walkway through beautiful grounds. Our convention served delicious food and open bar. Nice!
Outdoor area nice too!

Just started here a week ago, love this place! First of all the administrative staff is SO helpful and nice. I can’t eve begin to describe how happy and grateful I am for being taken such good care of. Our lab is big, clean and nice. The overall campus is small, but very clean and well kept. It is impossible not to grow as a researcher when surrounded by so many intelligent and inspiring people. Also, the RU serves free beers three days a week after work, who wouldn’t love that? The only thing I miss would be a book store.

If you know someone who works here, there is a weird alumni club where you can get pseudo free drinks. Went there with a couple friends, nice spot to hang out.

What is it like to play with really smart people and to hang out on a campus where many of the world’s Nobel Prize winners were educated?
Well for one, they know that in order for smart people to function, create and discover, they absolutely need beer. And RU delivers beers and other alcohols to their faculty and students.
Inside RU, there is an actual Rockefeller University Faculty Club and there is happy hour everyday from 6−8pm. You probably need to know someone to get in, but once you’re in, the beer flows and very cheaply at that. I don’t think I paid anything to drink.
The lounge is spacious and lots of couches. Also, there is a pool table, if you want to hustle. Bathrooms were clean, but it will remind you that you are on a university campus. The outdoor space is absolutely lovely. Many people having BBQs and on a nice warm night, drinking beer in the garden is really nice.
I would definitely come back and hang with my RU friends and drink cheap beer and discuss cerebral topics.