2586 Brooklyn

How does 2586 Brooklyn compare with other supermarket/grocery store buildings in New York City?

The latest disclosures cover 166 supermarket/grocery store buildings in New York City, out of 48,310 buildings citywide. 2586 Brooklyn's ENERGY STAR score of 78 compares with an average of 61 across the 114 that report a score; it scores higher than 66% of them and lower than 29%. Its site EUI of 155.2 kBtu/ft² is about 16% below the average of 184.9 kBtu/ft² — it uses less energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 16.1 kgCO₂e/ft² is roughly in line with the group average of 17.0 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 66,350 sq ft, it is about 28% above the average floor area of 51,810 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 2015, 41 years later than the group's average year built (1974). Across all 24 jurisdictions BuildingCensus covers, the 1,646 supermarket/grocery store buildings average an ENERGY STAR score of 71 and a site EUI of 176.1 kBtu/ft².

What does an ENERGY STAR score of 78 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 78 means the building performs better than about 78% of its national peers. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 78 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. 2586 Brooklyn's 155.2 kBtu/ft² across 66,350 sq ft works out to about 10.3 billion Btu (3,018 MWh-equivalent) in 2024. Its source EUI of 383.7 kBtu/ft² also counts the energy lost generating and delivering that power, which is why it is higher. The disclosure also reports 2,453,240 kWh of electricity, 19,260 therms of natural gas and 1,242 thousand gallons of water for the year.

Which law requires 2586 Brooklyn to report its energy use?

2586 Brooklyn 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:12743366:2024). 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.