St. Joseph's Seminary - 5655 Arlington Avenue

How does St. Joseph's Seminary - 5655 Arlington Avenue 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. St. Joseph's Seminary - 5655 Arlington Avenue's ENERGY STAR score of 43 compares with an average of 57 across the 229 that report a score; it scores higher than 34% of them and lower than 64%. Its site EUI of 100.4 kBtu/ft² is about 10% below 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 9.2 kgCO₂e/ft² is roughly in line with the group average of 8.5 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 91,224 sq ft, it is about 16% below the average floor area of 108,590 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 1902, 72 years earlier 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.

How has St. Joseph's Seminary - 5655 Arlington Avenue's energy performance changed over time?

BuildingCensus holds 3 New York City disclosures for St. Joseph's Seminary - 5655 Arlington Avenue, covering report years 2022–2024. Its ENERGY STAR score went from 2 in 2022 to 43 in 2024 (+41 points); its best year on file was 2023, at 60. Site EUI moved from 181.2 kBtu/ft² (2022) to 100.4 kBtu/ft² (2024), a 45% decrease. Reported emissions went from 618 tCO₂e to 838 tCO₂e over the same span (up 36%).

What does an ENERGY STAR score of 43 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 43 means the building performs better than about 43% of its national peers. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 43 falls in band D — lowest band (1–54). It sits 32 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. Joseph's Seminary - 5655 Arlington Avenue's 100.4 kBtu/ft² across 91,224 sq ft works out to about 9.2 billion Btu (2,684 MWh-equivalent) in 2024. Its source EUI of 214.1 kBtu/ft² also counts the energy lost generating and delivering that power, which is why it is higher. The disclosure also reports 1,661,407 kWh of electricity, 34,886 therms of natural gas and 3,918 thousand gallons of water for the year.

Which law requires St. Joseph's Seminary - 5655 Arlington Avenue to report its energy use?

St. Joseph's Seminary - 5655 Arlington Avenue 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:6220945:2024). 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.