148-154 West 48th Street - Hilton Times Square

How does 148-154 West 48th Street - Hilton Times Square compare with other hotel buildings in New York City?

The latest disclosures cover 970 hotel buildings in New York City, out of 48,310 buildings citywide. 148-154 West 48th Street - Hilton Times Square's ENERGY STAR score of 80 compares with an average of 50 across the 853 that report a score; it scores higher than 81% of them and lower than 19%. Its site EUI of 75.7 kBtu/ft² is about 20% below the average of 94.3 kBtu/ft² — it uses less energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 7.1 kgCO₂e/ft² is roughly in line with the group average of 7.8 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 321,874 sq ft, it is about 135% above the average floor area of 137,256 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 1980, 5 years later than the group's average year built (1975). Across all 24 jurisdictions BuildingCensus covers, the 3,812 hotel buildings average an ENERGY STAR score of 65 and a site EUI of 77.8 kBtu/ft².

What does an ENERGY STAR score of 80 mean?

ENERGY STAR scores run from 1 to 100 and are computed by the EPA's Portfolio Manager as a percentile against similar buildings nationwide, adjusted for climate, size and use: a score of 80 means the building performs better than about 80% of its national peers. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 80 falls in band B — above median (70–84). Scores of 75 or higher meet the threshold for ENERGY STAR certification; certification itself is a separate, verified application that the disclosure does not record. In New York City, 43% of scored buildings are at 75 or above.

Site energy-use intensity (EUI) is the energy a building uses on site in a year divided by its floor area, in thousand Btu per square foot — lower is more efficient. 148-154 West 48th Street - Hilton Times Square's 75.7 kBtu/ft² across 321,874 sq ft works out to about 24.4 billion Btu (7,141 MWh-equivalent) in 2024. Its source EUI of 165.5 kBtu/ft² also counts the energy lost generating and delivering that power, which is why it is higher. The disclosure also reports 4,637,242 kWh of electricity and 85,448 therms of natural gas for the year.

Which law requires 148-154 West 48th Street - Hilton Times Square to report its energy use?

148-154 West 48th Street - Hilton Times Square reports under Local Law 84 (LL84), the legal basis of New York City's Energy and Water Data Disclosure program, which publishes each covered building's annual benchmarking results. The record shown here is the report-year 2024 disclosure (source record nyc:53351092:2024). Under Local Law 97, buildings over 25,000 sq ft face carbon caps with fines of $268 per metric ton of CO₂e over the limit, phasing in from 2024.