New York Hotel (Lucerne Hotel) - 201 West 79th Street

How does New York Hotel (Lucerne Hotel) - 201 West 79th Street compare with other hotel buildings in New York City?

The latest disclosures cover 970 hotel buildings in New York City, out of 48,310 buildings citywide. New York Hotel (Lucerne Hotel) - 201 West 79th Street's ENERGY STAR score of 11 compares with an average of 50 across the 853 that report a score; it scores higher than 11% of them and lower than 88%. Its site EUI of 120.5 kBtu/ft² is about 28% above the average of 94.3 kBtu/ft² — it uses more energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 8.9 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 14% above the group average of 7.8 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 111,270 sq ft, it is about 19% below the average floor area of 137,256 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 1903, 72 years earlier than the group's average year built (1975). Across all 24 jurisdictions BuildingCensus covers, the 3,812 hotel buildings average an ENERGY STAR score of 65 and a site EUI of 77.8 kBtu/ft².

How has New York Hotel (Lucerne Hotel) - 201 West 79th Street's energy performance changed over time?

BuildingCensus holds 3 New York City disclosures for New York Hotel (Lucerne Hotel) - 201 West 79th Street, covering report years 2022–2024. Its ENERGY STAR score went from 15 in 2022 to 11 in 2024 (-4 points); its best year on file was 2022, at 15. Site EUI moved from 114.6 kBtu/ft² (2022) to 120.5 kBtu/ft² (2024), an 5% increase. Reported emissions went from 819 tCO₂e to 985 tCO₂e over the same span (up 20%).

What does an ENERGY STAR score of 11 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 11 means the building performs better than about 11% of its national peers. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 11 falls in band D — lowest band (1–54). It sits 64 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. New York Hotel (Lucerne Hotel) - 201 West 79th Street's 120.5 kBtu/ft² across 111,270 sq ft works out to about 13.4 billion Btu (3,930 MWh-equivalent) in 2024. Its source EUI of 195.9 kBtu/ft² also counts the energy lost generating and delivering that power, which is why it is higher. The disclosure also reports 1,291,923 kWh of electricity, 90,000 therms of natural gas and 4,530 thousand gallons of water for the year.

Which law requires New York Hotel (Lucerne Hotel) - 201 West 79th Street to report its energy use?

New York Hotel (Lucerne Hotel) - 201 West 79th 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:2818201:2024). 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.