Brown Building
College/University in New York City, NY · 23 Washington Place · 10003
At a glance
Brown Building is a 125,079-square-foot college/university building at 23 Washington Place in New York City, New York, built in 1894. It is listed in the 2024 Energy and Water Data Disclosure disclosure without energy figures: no ENERGY STAR score, energy use or emissions were published for it that year.
No energy data reported for 2024
Brown Building appears in the 2024 Energy and Water Data Disclosure disclosure, but no ENERGY STAR score, energy use or emissions were published for it — the building did not report benchmarking data for that year.
Floor area on file: 125,079 sq ft · Built 1894
Source record nyc:2710436:2024
Compliance context
Local Law 84 (LL84)
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.
Ownership
No owning organisation shown. Names of private individuals in the disclosure are not published here.
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Location
- Address
- 23 Washington Place
- City
- New York City
- State
- New York
- ZIP
- 10003
- Coordinates
- 40.72984, -73.99542
Within ~1 km
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How has Brown Building's energy performance changed over time?
BuildingCensus holds 3 New York City disclosures for Brown Building, covering report years 2022–2024. None of those years carry an ENERGY STAR score or site EUI.
Which law requires Brown Building to report its energy use?
Brown Building 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:2710436:2024). 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.
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Frequently asked questions
What is Brown Building's energy grade?
Brown Building has no grade: it did not report energy data for 2024. The 2024 Energy and Water Data Disclosure disclosure lists the building but publishes no ENERGY STAR score, energy use or emissions for it.
Where is Brown Building?
Brown Building is at 23 Washington Place, in New York City, New York 10003. Its coordinates are 40.72984, -73.99542 (latitude, longitude), as published in the Energy and Water Data Disclosure file.
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About this data
Source: Energy and Water Data Disclosure (Local Law 84 (LL84)), as published October 2, 2026. See the methodology for how records are matched, cleaned and scored.
Cite as: BuildingCensus, “Brown Building, New York City, New York — 2024 benchmarking disclosure”, https://buildingcensus.com/buildings/new-york-city/brown-building-6e07c60e (data as of October 2, 2026).