St Agatha Church 701 49th St

How does St Agatha Church 701 49th St 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. St Agatha Church 701 49th St's ENERGY STAR score of 24 compares with an average of 43 across the 224 that report a score; it scores higher than 33% of them and lower than 65%. Its site EUI of 74.4 kBtu/ft² is about 19% above the average of 62.6 kBtu/ft² — it uses more energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 4.1 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 10% below the group average of 4.6 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 18,645 sq ft, it is about 58% below the average floor area of 44,868 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 1950, 13 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 24 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 24 means the building performs better than about 24% of its national peers. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 24 falls in band D — lowest band (1–54). It sits 51 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. St Agatha Church 701 49th St's 74.4 kBtu/ft² across 18,645 sq ft works out to about 1.4 billion Btu (407 MWh-equivalent) in 2024. Its source EUI of 83.2 kBtu/ft² also counts the energy lost generating and delivering that power, which is why it is higher. The disclosure also reports 15,975 kWh of electricity and 13,318 therms of natural gas for the year.

Which law requires St Agatha Church 701 49th St to report its energy use?

St Agatha Church 701 49th St 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:59772092:2024). 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.