HUNDREDS of Irish students are in dire straits lacking accommodation and jobs and seeing their summer dreams of New York disappear.They have been turning up in their droves at the Aisling Irish Center in Yonkers, New York seeking accommodation and jobs and overwhelming the staff there. Student Cormac Glynn, 21, sleeps on the floor of a one-room apartment with five others. "There was 13 of us at one stage," he told the Irish Voice on Monday while he was at the Aisling Irish Center seeking better sleeping quarters. He will have to wait. There are 46 other Irish students before him on a list awaiting accommodation and their situation is far worse. Most of the 46 are staying in Manhattan in overpriced hostels since their arrival two to three weeks ago. Some are forced to leave their accommodations in the city at 6.30am and are not allowed back in until 4pm in the afternoon. Others are paying up to $100 a night just for a bed. These students can be seen standing outside the Aisling Center at 9am every morning waiting for it to open.Orla Kelleher, Executive Director of the Center, through a friend, managed to secure a building in Riverdale in the Bronx that can accommodate 30 of the students. "If only we had a few more buildings like that now we'd be sorted," said Kelleher. "You should have seen the look on their faces when they finally realized they got a place. They were absolutely delighted," she said. As for the remaining 46, "Anything come available," they ask in hope every day. The answer is always "No." Kelleher told the Irish Voice that they have never experienced such a shortage of accommodation in the area ever. "There are definitely far more students here this year than previous years," states Kelleher. "We are trying our best to get them all rooms but it's next to impossible," she said. "We are pleading with people who have or know of rooms or apartments available to let us know so we can sort out these kids asap.""We are not looking for anything fancy," said Clodagh Conroy from Galway. "Myself and my five friends who I went to college with all came here together and so far it's been a nightmare," she said. "Don't get me wrong, I love the craic in Woodlawn, that's definitely the best part but we are nearly out of money and we can't keep staying with my cousin." Conroy and her friends arrived in New York on June 11 and have been staying with her relations in Pearl River since their arrival. "They are really good to us to let us stay but the six of us are sharing a room and as you can imagine it's just crazy," she said frustrated. Three out of the six of them have obtained jobs as waitresses in Manhattan, the other three are still unemployed. Siobhan Varley, one of Conroy's college friends said if she doesn't get a secure job soon she will be on the next "Aer Lingus" flight back to Shannon."I trained as a waitress for four days without any pay and at the end of it they told me they didn't need me after all because the bosses' daughter needed a job, I swear that wouldn't happen in Ireland," said Varley angrily. "I really do want to stay here and experience New York and it's culture and travel America at the end of the summer like we planned but it won't happen without a job or accommodation," she said, admitting she already had to call her parents back home to lend her money. Kelleher said she is being inundated with calls and visits regarding accommodation and jobs from young Irish students every day. "The computer room downstairs is full every day with students online looking for work and a place to stay," she said. On Monday Kelleher told the Irish Voice that she received a visit from three Irish students who came to the United States three weeks ago and have failed to secure jobs. "They have decided to go home, they just can't find jobs and are fed up at this stage."Glynn, who plays football with the Donegal team for the summer, said his landlord is very eager to have half of them leave the house. "We've had no luck just yet, it really is impossible to find any kind of decent accommodation," said Glynn who is studying corporate law and is lucky enough to have landed a construction job while in New York for the summer. David Noone, 22 and from Roscommon, also shares a one room apartment with three students. A student of Business Studies at Sligo Institute of Technology, Noone said sleeping on blow up beds was certainly not how he thought he would be living for the summer. When the Irish Voice caught up with Noone he was searching the Internet for jobs in New York."I've been here over two weeks and I've had no luck with a job yet," he said. "I'll do anything at this stage, just to get a bit of money to keep me here."Noone, like several students is playing football with Roscommon at the weekends and said he will give New York another three weeks before he "is forced" to return to Ireland. "I hope it won't have to come to that," he said. Although bars in Woodlawn and Yonkers are filled with students at the weekends bringing about a renewed sense of life into the area that has recently been affected by many Irish immigrants returning to Ireland due to a lack of immigration reform, students will soon run out of money to continue the party if jobs don't become readily available or if accommodation continues to be non-existent. "It would be a shame to see the students go back to Ireland again. Business has almost tripled in the past few weeks since they came but I can see it slowly dwindling probably because the jobs just aren't there for them," said a local bar owner who asked to remain nameless. "It's always like this the first week or two but some of the lads I've coming in here are here five and six weeks and they still can't get a job. They are just lucky their euro is going a long way," he said.