Laconia Nursing Home / 1040 East 230th Street

How does Laconia Nursing Home / 1040 East 230th Street compare with other senior living community buildings in New York City?

The latest disclosures cover 296 senior living community buildings in New York City, out of 48,310 buildings citywide. Laconia Nursing Home / 1040 East 230th Street's ENERGY STAR score of 51 compares with an average of 57 across the 229 that report a score; it scores higher than 43% of them and lower than 55%. Its site EUI of 179.6 kBtu/ft² is about 60% above the average of 112.0 kBtu/ft² — it uses more energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 12.2 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 44% above the group average of 8.5 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 74,400 sq ft, it is about 31% below the average floor area of 108,590 sq ft for those buildings. Its 1972 construction date is close to the group's average year built (1974). Across all 24 jurisdictions BuildingCensus covers, the 1,181 senior living community buildings average an ENERGY STAR score of 71 and a site EUI of 73.6 kBtu/ft².

What does an ENERGY STAR score of 51 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 51 means the building performs better than about 51% of its national peers. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 51 falls in band D — lowest band (1–54). It sits 24 points below 75, the threshold for ENERGY STAR certification. 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. Laconia Nursing Home / 1040 East 230th Street's 179.6 kBtu/ft² across 74,400 sq ft works out to about 13.4 billion Btu (3,916 MWh-equivalent) in 2024. Its source EUI of 264.2 kBtu/ft² also counts the energy lost generating and delivering that power, which is why it is higher. The disclosure also reports 942,404 kWh of electricity, 101,464 therms of natural gas and 12,019 thousand gallons of water for the year.

Which law requires Laconia Nursing Home / 1040 East 230th Street to report its energy use?

Laconia Nursing Home / 1040 East 230th 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:46376894:2024). 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.