50 Wallabout Street, Brooklyn (Store 1906)

How does 50 Wallabout Street, Brooklyn (Store 1906) compare with other self-storage facility buildings in New York City?

The latest disclosures cover 481 self-storage facility buildings in New York City, out of 48,310 buildings citywide. Its site EUI of 20.5 kBtu/ft² is roughly in line with the average of 21.2 kBtu/ft² — it uses less energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 1.7 kgCO₂e/ft² is roughly in line with the group average of 1.7 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 92,000 sq ft, it is roughly in line with the average floor area of 98,872 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 1950, 33 years earlier than the group's average year built (1983). Across all 24 jurisdictions BuildingCensus covers, the 3,050 self-storage facility buildings average an ENERGY STAR score of 75 and a site EUI of 9.4 kBtu/ft².

What does a site EUI of 20.5 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. 50 Wallabout Street, Brooklyn (Store 1906)'s 20.5 kBtu/ft² across 92,000 sq ft works out to about 1.9 billion Btu (553 MWh-equivalent) in 2022. Its source EUI of 53.4 kBtu/ft² also counts the energy lost generating and delivering that power, which is why it is higher. The disclosure also reports 491,700 kWh of electricity and 260 thousand gallons of water for the year.

Which law requires 50 Wallabout Street, Brooklyn (Store 1906) to report its energy use?

50 Wallabout Street, Brooklyn (Store 1906) 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 2022 disclosure (source record nyc:4408644:2022). 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.