The Lawrence Apartments consist of a 12 floor high-rise building that has 1-bedroom apartments (Building #1, completely renovated in 2005), six 2-floor buildings that have 2-bedroom apartments (Buildings #2-7, built in the 1970’s), and seven new buildings that have studios, one-, and two-bedroom apartments (Buildings #8-14, built in 2002). Buildings 1, 10, 11, and 12 have elevators, the others do not. All rooms in Lawrence 2-6 are pet friendly (large animals such as dogs and cats allowed). For all other units in Lawrence, only pets that can be humanely restricted to cages, bowls, or aquariums are permitted (no cats or dogs). Electricity, water, and internet are included in your rent for all Lawrence buildings. You do not need to set up a PSE&G account. All buildings are smoke-free.
These apartments are owned and maintained by Princeton University and house Princeton graduate students and their families. Floor plans and many useful forms (Intent to Vacate, Apartment Extension Request, etc) can be found on the Graduate Housing website.
Social activities at Lawrence are organized by the Lawrence Committee. These include barbecues, wine and cheese events, and outdoor activities. For more information or to become involved with the committee, attend a meeting or email them.
The Lawrence Apartment Emergency Action Plan, including phone numbers and email address of safety officials, can be found here.
For information on requesting maintenance or service, including extermination services, see the maintenance page.
Rooms
All units:
- Smoke and carbon monoxide detectors are located in each apartment, and there are fire alarms in the hallways. Generally, the apartment smoke detectors are on the ceiling just outside the kitchen. Carbon monoxide detectors are the small devices that are plugged into an outlet, usually near the entry door.
- Bathrooms have ceramic tile
- Pictures can be hung with small nails or picture hooks. Adhesives and larger nails are prohibited.
- Telephone jacks and Ethernet ports are available in all apartments, in the living room as well as the bedrooms. If you want landline phone service, you must contact Verizon.
- If you desire cable television ($20-$60 per month, depending on your package), you must contact a third-party provider such as Comcast. You may attempt to use an indoor antenna to receive free broadcasts, but most apartments outside of the high-rise do not receive good reception. Residents are not permitted to install satellite dishes.
- Buildings 1, 10, 11, and 12 have elevators, the others do not.
Building 1:
- Building 1 floor plan
- 12-story apartment building, completely renovated in 2005, with one-bedroom apartments.
- Carpeted floors in bedrooms and living rooms
- Linoleum kitchen floors
- Gas kitchen ranges & ventilation hood
- Standard white walls
- In buildings 1-7, where the cost of electricity is not included in the rent, you should contact PSE&G to ensure that the electricity will be on when you move in. If you experience problems with PSE&G, read this FAQ item.
Buildings 2-7:
- Buildings 2-7 floor plan
- Two-story buildings built in the 1970s, with two-bedroom apartments
- Vinyl linoleum floors
- Gas kitchen ranges
- Standard white walls
- Please note: These apartments do not come equipped with air conditioning unit. You can purchase your own window AC unit and have facilities install it for you. Please make sure your AC unit is within the dimensions that will fit in these Lawrence units.
Buildings 8-14:
- Buildings 8-14 floor plan
- Constructed in 2002; with studios, one-bedroom and two-bedroom apartments
- Carpeted bedrooms and living rooms
- Linoleum kitchen floors
- Electric kitchen ranges & ventilation hood
- Off-white walls
Wifi and Internet
Free university Wi-Fi is available to all Lawrence residents. There are three main ways of accessing the Internet at Lawrence: the eduroam network, the servicenet network, and ethernet.
Princeton OIT recommends most Wi-Fi-enabled personal devices use eduroam, which is accessible to all Princeton students via NetID. Students should use eduroam for computers, tablets, phones, and most other everyday devices.
Servicenet should be used for special devices that cannot be used over eduroam. These include electronics like gaming consoles and Apple TVs. These devices must be especially registered with OIT at the link here.
Finally, residents can sometimes be approved to use the ethernet in their apartment wallboxes. OIT requires registration of ethernet devices via the same servicenet registration link, and usually will not approve devices for ethernet use unless residents can make a good case for why their device cannot be used over servicenet or eduroam.
In practice, these include devices that simply cannot use Wi-Fi or rely on ethernet for necessary functionality. Online multiplayer gaming, for example, will usually not work on servicenet and require ethernet, and OIT will usually approve tickets that request ethernet for this purpose.
Additionally, prior to using ethernet, residents will need to activate their wallbox ethernet ports, identifying the port number and wallbox ID in OIT’s online form, found here.
No personal routers are allowed in Lawrence Apartments.
For more questions, contact OIT via the footer at their website here. OIT tends to be pretty responsive to emails and their chat functionality is particularly useful.
Apartment Complex Features
Barbecue Grills: Several picnic groves with barbecue grills and benches are located on the grounds—behind building 10, behind building 14, and behind the bike shelter in the old Lawrence complex. These are available on a first-come, first-serve basis, and residents are responsible for providing their own charcoal and grilling supplies. Some residents in buildings 2-7 have their own grills, which they store in the grilling area behind each building. Gas grills may not be used within 10 feet of the buildings.
Community Garden: A garden is available to residents of the apartment complex. See the Garden page for more information.
Recycling and Composting
For information on recycling other materials, consult the Office of Sustainability website.
Recycling: There are single-stream recycling dumpsters located in the dumpster sheds. What should be recycled in the recycling dumpsters:
- Most kinds of paper may be recycled as long as it is not contaminated with food and is not coated with plastic or wax. (For example, pizza boxes, paper towels, and juice boxes are not recyclable, but regular paper, cardboard, newspaper, and phone books are.)
- Glass bottles and jars may be recycled. Glass does not need to be sorted by color. Other forms of glass (e.g., broken mirrors) are not recyclable.
- Metal cans and tins, including aerosol cans such as whipped cream cans, may be recycled. Aluminum foil may not be recycled.
- Plastic bottles and jars numbered #1 through #7 may be recycled. Other forms of plastic, including deli containers, fruit containers, yogurt cups, and plastic utensils may not be recycled.
- All containers should be rinsed before being put in the recycling bins.
Some of the mailbox areas also have paper recycling bins for unwanted mail. There are recycling buckets for household batteries located in the laundry rooms.
Composting: Residential composting will soon be available beginning on October 1, 2019. These composting buckets will be located in the dumpster sheds. These recycling buckets only accept food waste (no napkins or compostable bags). There is also a composting bin in the Lawrence Garden that is available for use by members of the garden.