Silvercrest Senior Housing 144-45 87 Ave

How does Silvercrest Senior Housing 144-45 87 Ave 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. Silvercrest Senior Housing 144-45 87 Ave's ENERGY STAR score of 84 compares with an average of 57 across the 229 that report a score; it scores higher than 70% of them and lower than 29%. Its site EUI of 61.6 kBtu/ft² is about half of the average of 112.0 kBtu/ft² — it uses less energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 5.3 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 38% below the group average of 8.5 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 273,882 sq ft, it is about 152% above the average floor area of 108,590 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 1990, 16 years later than 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 84 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 84 means the building performs better than about 84% of its national peers. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 84 falls in band B — above median (70–84). Scores of 75 or higher meet the threshold for ENERGY STAR certification; certification itself is a separate, verified application that the disclosure does not record. 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. Silvercrest Senior Housing 144-45 87 Ave's 61.6 kBtu/ft² across 273,882 sq ft works out to about 16.9 billion Btu (4,944 MWh-equivalent) in 2024. Its source EUI of 121.2 kBtu/ft² also counts the energy lost generating and delivering that power, which is why it is higher. The disclosure also reports 2,588,169 kWh of electricity, 80,521 therms of natural gas and 11,678 thousand gallons of water for the year.

Which law requires Silvercrest Senior Housing 144-45 87 Ave to report its energy use?

Silvercrest Senior Housing 144-45 87 Ave 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:53261392:2024). 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.