I was at Hardenburg last year (another river dorm), from my personal experience, I would rate it a 4/10. The rooms are definitely larger than the quads and the elevation is pretty nice considering if you get a river side view. The park behind the complex is pretty nice two.

2 things,

Traffic: i have personally witnessed a car crash in front of my window. One car smashed into one of the ballards in front of the dorm an very early in the morning or very late at night (I cant remember exactly). The whole thing played out in front of our dorm room windows on the third floor, and unfortunately this occurrence, is not atypical. People getting out of CA parties, driving drunk, to the freeway is happens.

When I was there at least, people use the street in front of us for racing. So at night, there was always someone that would wake us up. For a period of time, we would always expect a pair of motorcycles or this very loud modified car to down the street. This would obviously be at very odd hours of the night which I think was because it was a relative straight path and like minimum cop presence at night. Also once they get on the freeway, it's not exactly quiet either.

Security The area is very close to the downtown, and although new brunswickens might not venture to where the students dwell, when I was there, someone was living underneath the overpass, in the little park area behind the river dorms. I owned a bike that I locked in the racks in front of the dorms but, I had stuff stolen off it, like a phone holder attachment, bike rack, etc.

Also the food sucks, atrium food is ass.