NYU students frustrated about having to pack up their dorms amid coronavirus

New York University students are frustrated with the college for closing down the school’s residence halls amid coronavirus concerns — and for being asked to clear their belongings from their dormitories so they can potentially be filled with hospital beds.

“It’s difficult, especially because I live in Los Angeles. It’s a difficult situation,” Pawla Velosa, 20, a sophomore said Friday, adding that she was already in California this week and had to come back to the city after she received a school email asking students to pack up their stuff.

“I got here Tuesday morning and immediately started packing. I had to pack both my suitemates’ stuff as well because they can’t afford to come back,” Velosa said. “I had to pack for three people before Sunday.”

“It’s stressful,” she said.

Earlier this week, the college sent an email to its students asking them to clear out their dorm spaces after announcing that spring semester classes will be moved online and that student residence halls will close by Sunday.

The email stated that “there are significant indications that the state, as part of its contingency planning, is looking at university dormitories as settings for overflow beds from hospitals” as the potentially deadly virus spreads through the city.

An NYU spokesman told The Post this week that there “have been no specific requests of the University at this point, but we would want to be in a position to help if needed.”

Velosa claimed that NYU is handling the matter with “a bad attitude.”

“Pretty much their attitude is, ‘you can stay, but we’re going to give you a hard time,’” the student said.

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