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477 Grandview Avenue, Ridgewood, NY 11385

Built 1925 · 2-story walk-up · 6 apartments

7 open violations, none immediately hazardous.

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Open violations
75 · 2
Public record
Updated todayFrom the city’s own data (, 311, the courts), refreshed nightly.

Violations issued each year

None issued since 2022. 9 violations before that, the first in 1988.

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Open per apartment
1.2 (7 open across 6 apartments)
Inspector last found a problem
6 Nov 2001 (visits that find nothing are not published)
What do these labels mean?
Tenant-reported
A resident's firsthand account of living here, moderated before it publishes, and labelled with whether we verified they lived there.
Official violation
A city inspector visited and recorded a code violation. HPD's own words, and its own hazard class.
Public complaint
A complaint somebody made to a city system, through HPD or 311. A report, not a finding: nobody has necessarily inspected it.
Public filing
A permit, a registration, a bedbug report: a document the owner filed with the city because the law requires it.
Court record
A Housing Court case HPD brought against the owner, or an eviction a city marshal carried out. A court's record: a case is an allegation until it ends in a finding.
Insufficient data
Not enough current information here to infer a pattern either way.

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Heat season

No heat or hot-water complaints or violations were recorded here last winter (2025–26). That is the city's record: it only holds what somebody reported.

WinterDaysComplaintsViolations
2025–26000

The rules, 1 October to 31 May: from 6am to 10pm, when it is below 55°F outside, the apartment must be at least 68°F; overnight it must be at least 62°F whatever the weather. Hot water must be at least 120°F all year. A tenant without heat can report it to 311.

Rent stabilization

Public filing

This building is not on the state's list of buildings with rent-stabilized apartments for 2024. That is not proof none are: an owner who did not register is missing from the list too.

Source: Rent Guidelines Board building list, from the state's 2024 registrations. To know about one apartment, a tenant can ask the state for its rent history through Ask HCR.

City violations

Official violation

Hazardous5 open

Class B. A hazardous condition: a leak, mould, a defective floor. The owner has 30 days to correct it.

  • Provide adequate lighting at or near the outside of the front entranceway of the building and keep same burning from sunset every day to sunrise on the day following fixtures present lights not on 200 watts required. at front areaway

    Issued 6 Nov 2001Notice sent out 13 Oct 2009Electrical§ 27-2040

  • Remove all encumbrances consisting of household items 1 sty pub hall.

    Issued 10 Aug 1988Notice sent out 13 Oct 2009Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2005 +1

  • Abate the nuisance consisting of opening in wall at scuttle recess to cockloft 2 sty pub hall.

    Issued 10 Aug 1988Notice sent out 13 Oct 2009Walls and ceilings§ 27-2005 +1

  • Remove all encumbrances consisting of household items 2 sty pub hall r10.

    Issued 10 Aug 1988Notice sent out 13 Oct 2009Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2005 +1

  • Properly repair with similar material the broken or defective ceramic floor & wall tile 1 sty pub vestibule.

    Issued 10 Aug 1988Notice sent out 13 Oct 2009Floors and stairs§ 27-2005

Non-hazardous2 open

Class A. The least serious band: chipped plaster, a missing cabinet, a peeling ceiling in a hallway. The owner has 90 days to correct it.

  • File plans and application and legalize the following alteration or restore to the legal condition existing prior to the making of said alteration suspended ceiling 1 sty pub vestibule.

    Issued 10 Aug 1988Notice sent out 13 Oct 2009Walls and ceilings§ 300

  • File plans and application and legalize the following alteration or restore to the legal condition existing prior to the making of said alteration wood panel walls vestibule & pub hall all sty.

    Issued 10 Aug 1988Notice sent out 13 Oct 2009Walls and ceilings§ 300

Paperwork and notices2 open

The owner failed to file something the city requires, most often the annual property registration or the annual bedbug report. Real violations, and they say something about an owner, but not a condition anyone is living in. Kept out of the count at the top of this page for that reason.

  • Post a proper notice of smoke detector requirements, in a form approved by the commissioner, at or near the mail box notice missing.

    Issued 10 Aug 1988Notice sent out 13 Oct 2009Paperwork and notices§ 27-2045

  • Post and maintain a proper sign on wall of entrance story showing the registration number assigned by the department and the address of the building.

    Issued 10 Aug 1988Notice sent out 13 Oct 2009Paperwork and notices§ 27-2104

2 closed violations, plus 16 closed paperwork filings

Closed means HPD recorded the violation as corrected, or dismissed it. Both appear here, because the difference matters and only HPD’s own status line says which it was.

  • File certification of satisfactory installation of smoke detecting device in accordance with h.p.d. rules and regulations.

    Issued 10 Aug 1988Violation closed 17 Oct 2017Fire and safety equipment§ D26-20.08 +1

  • File with this department a registration and occupancy statement of building.

    Issued 10 Aug 1988Violation dismissed 9 Mar 2015§ D26-41.03

27 violations on record in total, 9 of them open. The count at the top of this page counts habitability violations only.

Complaints to the city

Public complaint

Complaints are reports made to the city. They are not confirmed findings. They come from HPD and from 311, and the same problem can appear more than once if more than one neighbour called.

1 complaint in three years, 0 of them in the last twelve months.

  • Construction and illegal work0 / 1

Last twelve months / last three years. The solid part of each bar is the last twelve months.

Court records

Court record

Housing Court cases

Cases the city’s housing department (HPD) brought against the owner, usually to force repairs or restore heat. A case is an allegation; where the court recorded an outcome, it is shown.

No HPD Housing Court cases on record for this building.

Evictions

Residential evictions carried out by a city marshal since 2017. Most follow a case for unpaid rent, so a count here is not by itself a finding about the building or the landlord. We show how many, never which apartment.

  • 20231 eviction

Filings

Public filing

Building permits

1 permit currently in force.

  • Plumbing

    HEREBY FILING TO REPLACE STEAM BOILER WITH DIRECT VENT BOILERS. CONNECT REPLACEMENT GAS-FIRED BOILERS TO GAS PIPING AS PER PLANS. NO CHANGE IN USE, OCCUPANCY OR EGRESS.

    Issued 24 Jan 2026Expires 31 Dec 2026

Annual bedbug report

Every multiple dwelling in New York must file this once a year. A report of zero infested units is good news. No report is not: failing to file is itself a violation.

  • 2026No infested units reported (2024 report)
Show 4 earlier reports
  • 2024No infested units reported (2022 report)
  • 2023No infested units reported (2021 report)
  • 2021No infested units reported (2019 report)
  • 2021No infested units reported (2019 report)

Ownership and management

Public filing

Associations come from registration records and may be incomplete. Owners register with HPD once a year, so a change of hands can go unrecorded for a full cycle.

  • Owner of record

    GIUSEPPE DIMARCO

    Public records list GIUSEPPE DIMARCO as the owner of record for this address as of 27 May 2026. Source: HPD registration.

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What to ask at the viewing

Drawn from this building’s record above. They are questions, not conclusions: the point is to find out, in the twenty minutes you get inside, what the public record cannot tell you.

  1. The city has 5 open hazardous violations on this building. Ask which apartments they concern and what has been done since.
  2. The owner has filed a bedbug report for this building (most recently for the year ending 2026). Ask when the building was last treated, how often an exterminator comes, and whether treatment covers the whole line of apartments or only the one that complained.
  3. 1 active construction permit on file. Ask what is being done, on which floors, and until when, and whether it affects heat, water or the elevator.
  4. Ask what the deposit is, exactly what can be deducted from it, and how and when it comes back.
  5. Ask who to call when something breaks, what happens after hours and at weekends, and how long a repair normally takes.

Ask for anything that matters in writing; an email after the viewing is enough. We are not your lawyer and this is not legal advice.

Questions about this building

BBL 4033690013 · Block 3369, Lot 13 · Building class C2