2236 Nostrand Avenue

How does 2236 Nostrand Avenue compare with other medical office buildings in New York City?

The latest disclosures cover 188 medical office buildings in New York City, out of 48,310 buildings citywide. 2236 Nostrand Avenue's ENERGY STAR score of 4 compares with an average of 65 across the 147 that report a score; it scores higher than 7% of them and lower than 92%. Its site EUI of 154.9 kBtu/ft² is about 59% above the average of 97.6 kBtu/ft² — it uses more energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 14.6 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 66% above the group average of 8.8 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 40,582 sq ft, it is about half of the average floor area of 75,019 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 1928, 37 years earlier than the group's average year built (1965). Across all 24 jurisdictions BuildingCensus covers, the 1,266 medical office buildings average an ENERGY STAR score of 64 and a site EUI of 92.2 kBtu/ft².

What does an ENERGY STAR score of 4 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 4 means the building performs better than about 4% of its national peers. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 4 falls in band D — lowest band (1–54). It sits 71 points below 75, the threshold for ENERGY STAR certification. 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. 2236 Nostrand Avenue's 154.9 kBtu/ft² across 40,582 sq ft works out to about 6.3 billion Btu (1,842 MWh-equivalent) in 2024. Its source EUI of 343.2 kBtu/ft² also counts the energy lost generating and delivering that power, which is why it is higher. The disclosure also reports 1,226,954 kWh of electricity, 21,018 therms of natural gas and 745 thousand gallons of water for the year.

Which law requires 2236 Nostrand Avenue to report its energy use?

2236 Nostrand Avenue 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:55112992:2024). 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.