Rockaway Care Center

How does Rockaway Care Center 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. Rockaway Care Center's ENERGY STAR score of 25 compares with an average of 57 across the 229 that report a score; it scores higher than 20% of them and lower than 79%. Its site EUI of 157.9 kBtu/ft² is about 41% 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 11.6 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 36% above the group average of 8.5 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 73,405 sq ft, it is about 32% below the average floor area of 108,590 sq ft for those buildings. Its 1975 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 25 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 25 means the building performs better than about 25% of its national peers. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 25 falls in band D — lowest band (1–54). It sits 50 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. Rockaway Care Center's 157.9 kBtu/ft² across 73,405 sq ft works out to about 11.6 billion Btu (3,397 MWh-equivalent) in 2023. Its source EUI of 267.6 kBtu/ft² also counts the energy lost generating and delivering that power, which is why it is higher. The disclosure also reports 1,251,448 kWh of electricity, 73,193 therms of natural gas and 6,815 thousand gallons of water for the year.

Which law requires Rockaway Care Center to report its energy use?

Rockaway Care Center 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 2023 disclosure (source record nyc:31978299:2023). 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.