Shellbank Jewish Center - 2121 Bragg Street

How does Shellbank Jewish Center - 2121 Bragg Street compare with other worship facility buildings in New York City?

The latest disclosures cover 370 worship facility buildings in New York City, out of 48,310 buildings citywide. Shellbank Jewish Center - 2121 Bragg Street's ENERGY STAR score of 28 compares with an average of 43 across the 224 that report a score; it scores higher than 36% of them and lower than 63%. Its site EUI of 49.4 kBtu/ft² is about 21% below the average of 62.6 kBtu/ft² — it uses less energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 3.7 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 20% below the group average of 4.6 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 25,100 sq ft, it is about 44% below the average floor area of 44,868 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 1962, 25 years later than the group's average year built (1937). Across all 24 jurisdictions BuildingCensus covers, the 1,035 worship facility buildings average an ENERGY STAR score of 50 and a site EUI of 47.8 kBtu/ft².

What does an ENERGY STAR score of 28 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 28 means the building performs better than about 28% of its national peers. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 28 falls in band D — lowest band (1–54). It sits 47 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. Shellbank Jewish Center - 2121 Bragg Street's 49.4 kBtu/ft² across 25,100 sq ft works out to about 1.2 billion Btu (363 MWh-equivalent) in 2023. Its source EUI of 86.2 kBtu/ft² also counts the energy lost generating and delivering that power, which is why it is higher. The disclosure also reports 144,119 kWh of electricity and 7,484 therms of natural gas for the year.

Which law requires Shellbank Jewish Center - 2121 Bragg Street to report its energy use?

Shellbank Jewish Center - 2121 Bragg 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 2023 disclosure (source record nyc:6261009:2023). 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.