252-260 Atlantic Avenue AKA 83-97 Boerum Place

How does 252-260 Atlantic Avenue AKA 83-97 Boerum Place compare with other strip mall buildings in New York City?

The latest disclosures cover 215 strip mall buildings in New York City, out of 48,310 buildings citywide. Its site EUI of 44.4 kBtu/ft² is about 60% below the average of 111.0 kBtu/ft² — it uses less energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 5.1 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 42% below the group average of 8.8 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 48,720 sq ft, it is about 28% below the average floor area of 67,251 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 2013, 41 years later than the group's average year built (1972). Across all 24 jurisdictions BuildingCensus covers, the 1,607 strip mall buildings average an ENERGY STAR score of 68 and a site EUI of 83.1 kBtu/ft².

What does a site EUI of 44.4 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. 252-260 Atlantic Avenue AKA 83-97 Boerum Place's 44.4 kBtu/ft² across 48,720 sq ft works out to about 2.2 billion Btu (634 MWh-equivalent) in 2024. Its source EUI of 124.2 kBtu/ft² also counts the energy lost generating and delivering that power, which is why it is higher. The disclosure also reports 633,383 kWh of electricity and 951 thousand gallons of water for the year.

Which law requires 252-260 Atlantic Avenue AKA 83-97 Boerum Place to report its energy use?

252-260 Atlantic Avenue AKA 83-97 Boerum Place 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:59354192:2024). 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.