St Teresa (Q) Church 44-02 50 Ave

How does St Teresa (Q) Church 44-02 50 Ave 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 Teresa (Q) Church 44-02 50 Ave's ENERGY STAR score of 32 compares with an average of 43 across the 224 that report a score; it scores higher than 39% of them and lower than 61%. Its site EUI of 58.9 kBtu/ft² is roughly in line with 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 3.6 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 21% below the group average of 4.6 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 19,500 sq ft, it is about 57% below the average floor area of 44,868 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 1928, 9 years earlier 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 32 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 32 means the building performs better than about 32% of its national peers. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 32 falls in band D — lowest band (1–54). It sits 43 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 Teresa (Q) Church 44-02 50 Ave's 58.9 kBtu/ft² across 19,500 sq ft works out to about 1.1 billion Btu (337 MWh-equivalent) in 2024. Its source EUI of 76.6 kBtu/ft² also counts the energy lost generating and delivering that power, which is why it is higher. The disclosure also reports 48,067 kWh of electricity and 9,852 therms of natural gas for the year.

Which law requires St Teresa (Q) Church 44-02 50 Ave to report its energy use?

St Teresa (Q) Church 44-02 50 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:65359892:2024). 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.