170 Sanford Street

How does 170 Sanford Street compare with other manufacturing/industrial plant buildings in New York City?

The latest disclosures cover 592 manufacturing/industrial plant buildings in New York City, out of 48,310 buildings citywide. Its site EUI of 1302.1 kBtu/ft² is about 1168% above the average of 102.7 kBtu/ft² — it uses more energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 91.2 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 1085% above the group average of 7.7 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 32,775 sq ft, it is about 63% below the average floor area of 87,732 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 1978, 29 years later than the group's average year built (1949). Across all 24 jurisdictions BuildingCensus covers, the 2,372 manufacturing/industrial plant buildings average an ENERGY STAR score of 67 and a site EUI of 126.3 kBtu/ft².

What does a site EUI of 1302.1 kBtu/ft² mean?

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. 170 Sanford Street's 1302.1 kBtu/ft² across 32,775 sq ft works out to about 42.7 billion Btu (12,507 MWh-equivalent) in 2024. Its source EUI of 1990.1 kBtu/ft² also counts the energy lost generating and delivering that power, which is why it is higher. The disclosure also reports 3,418,648 kWh of electricity, 310,131 therms of natural gas and 4,185 thousand gallons of water for the year.

Which law requires 170 Sanford Street to report its energy use?

170 Sanford Street 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:47701692:2024). 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.