Your comment that being off-campus made it feel psychologically farther matches my experience at Princeton. In college I felt like it was way easier to convince people to go somewhere on-campus (except for getting non-engineers to go to the engineering quad) than it was to convince people to go off-campus for something. That’s going to be very school-specific though, you wouldn’t have the some problem at NYU.
Your comment that being off-campus made it feel psychologically farther matches my experience at Princeton. In college I felt like it was way easier to convince people to go somewhere on-campus (except for getting non-engineers to go to the engineering quad) than it was to convince people to go off-campus for something. That’s going to be very school-specific though, you wouldn’t have the some problem at NYU.