A new report identifies a mere 2 percent of the buildings in New York City as being responsible for almost one-half of the city's carbon emissions. Surprise: It turns out that we can blame the Trump and Kushner families for this, too! Buildings for the ultra-rich are far bigger energy hogs than most of the city's other buildings, and Team Trump gets high marks in the things a building really, really doesn't want to get high marks in.
For 157 West 57th Street, that figure came out to 287. Trump Tower hit 208. The Trump International Hotel & Tower reached 267. [Kushner's] 666 Fifth Avenue had 285. 15 Central Park West notched 222. The Baccarat soared to 386.
Government sources peg the median energy use for New York office buildings atb186 kBtu per square foot, meaning these luxury hotels are somehow managing to be astonishingly inefficient. Or perhaps Trump Tower residents have been leaving their paper shredders running nonstop?
“It’s the Trumps and the Kushners that are polluting this city,” said Pete Sikora, the senior adviser at New York Communities for Change, the nonprofit that spearheaded the report. “We’re not a factory town in New York City, but if we were, our smokestacks would be buildings like Trump Tower.”
Oh, definitely. If there's one thing you can say about Donald Trump, it is that he is indeed forever blowing smoke. He just keeps blowing and blowing. The man most definitely, even according to environmental researchers’ careful scientific measurements, blows.