356-360 Wythe Avenue AKA 45 South 3rd Street

How does 356-360 Wythe Avenue AKA 45 South 3rd Street compare with other office buildings in New York City?

The latest disclosures cover 3,384 office buildings in New York City, out of 48,310 buildings citywide. Its site EUI of 64.1 kBtu/ft² is roughly in line with the average of 64.5 kBtu/ft² — it uses less energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 7.3 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 27% above the group average of 5.8 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 100,614 sq ft, it is about half of the average floor area of 205,440 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 2019, 79 years later than the group's average year built (1940). Across all 24 jurisdictions BuildingCensus covers, the 15,264 office buildings average an ENERGY STAR score of 73 and a site EUI of 59.3 kBtu/ft².

What does a site EUI of 64.1 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. 356-360 Wythe Avenue AKA 45 South 3rd Street's 64.1 kBtu/ft² across 100,614 sq ft works out to about 6.4 billion Btu (1,890 MWh-equivalent) in 2024. Its source EUI of 178.9 kBtu/ft² also counts the energy lost generating and delivering that power, which is why it is higher. The disclosure also reports 1,746,246 kWh of electricity and 289 therms of natural gas for the year.

Which law requires 356-360 Wythe Avenue AKA 45 South 3rd Street to report its energy use?

356-360 Wythe Avenue AKA 45 South 3rd 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:56187792:2024). 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.