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18-71 Troutman Street, Ridgewood, NY 11385

Built 1930 · 3-story walk-up · 6 apartments

2 immediately hazardous violations open. 3 open in all. On the state's rent-stabilization list for 2024.

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Open violations
32 · 1
Public record
Updated todayFrom the city’s own data (, 311, the courts), refreshed nightly.

Violations issued each year

None issued since 2022. 17 violations before that, the first in 1990.

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Open per apartment
0.5 (3 open across 6 apartments)
Inspector last found a problem
25 Jul 2017 (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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Nothing above this section came from a tenant. It is all filed by the city, which means it only holds what somebody reported and an inspector wrote down, not what it is actually like to live here.

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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

The owner registered at least one rent-stabilized apartment here with the state for 2024. The list does not say which apartments, or how many.

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

Immediately hazardous2 open

Class C. HPD considers the condition an immediate danger: no heat in winter, no hot water, lead paint where a child lives, a broken lock on the front door. The owner has 24 hours to correct it.

  • Fire escape defective. properly secure bottom front rail at 2nd and 3rd sty landing at fire escape at bldg front

    Issued 25 Jul 2017Notice sent out 4 Jun 2024Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2005

  • Provide ready access to buildings heating system door to cellar padlocked.

    Issued 25 Oct 1990Notice sent out 4 Jun 2024Heat and hot water§ 27-2033

Non-hazardous1 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.

  • And dept. rules and regulations. scrape and remove rust scales and paint with 2 coats of paint fire escape at bldg front

    Issued 25 Jul 2017Notice sent out 4 Jun 2024Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2014

14 closed violations

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.

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

    Issued 2 Nov 1990Violation dismissed 19 Sept 2024Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2005 +1

  • Repair the broken or defective plastered surfaces and paint in a uniform color clg pub hall 3 sty.

    Issued 2 Nov 1990Violation dismissed 19 Sept 2024Walls and ceilings§ D26-10.01

  • Properly repair the broken or defective paving cellar at center & boiler room.

    Issued 2 Nov 1990Violation dismissed 19 Sept 2024Heat and hot water§ D26-10.01

  • File plans and application and legalize the following alteration or restore to the legal condition existing prior to the making of said alteration drop ceiling bathroom & private hall 1 sty front an apartment., section '' ''

    Issued 25 Oct 1990Violation dismissed 19 Sept 2024Walls and ceilings§ 300

  • 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 100 watts.

    Issued 25 Oct 1990Violation dismissed 19 Sept 2024Electrical§ 27-2040

  • Remove the illegal fastening key lock west yard.

    Issued 25 Oct 1990Violation dismissed 19 Sept 2024Roof and outside the building§ 27-2005 +1

  • Abate the nuisance consisting of window unopenable bathroom 1 sty front an apartment., section '' ''

    Issued 25 Oct 1990Violation dismissed 19 Sept 2024Doors and windows§ 27-2005 +1

  • Abate the nuisance consisting of concealed leak ceiling front room 1 sty an apartment.

    Issued 25 Oct 1990Violation dismissed 19 Sept 2024Leaks and plumbing§ 27-2005 +1

  • Replace or repair the self-closing doors that is missing or defective entrance 1 sty an apartment.

    Issued 25 Oct 1990Violation dismissed 19 Sept 2024Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2005 +2

  • Repair the broken or defective plastered surfaces and paint in a uniform color walls 3 sty pub hall.

    Issued 25 Oct 1990Violation dismissed 19 Sept 2024Walls and ceilings§ 27-2005

  • Arrange and make self-closing the doors bulkhead to pub hall stairs.

    Issued 20 Apr 1990Violation dismissed 19 Sept 2024Fire and safety equipment§ D26-10.01 +1

  • 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 50 watts incandescent or equivalent minimum required night inspection.

    Issued 20 Apr 1990Violation dismissed 19 Sept 2024Electrical§ D26-19.07

  • Install and maintain sufficient light or lights of at least 100 watts incandescent or equivalent each, to light adequately from sunset to sunrise the outh yard night inspection.

    Issued 20 Apr 1990Violation dismissed 19 Sept 2024Electrical§ 27-2040

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

    Issued 25 Oct 1990Violation closed 17 Oct 2017Fire and safety equipment§ D26-20.08 +1

17 violations on record in total, 3 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.

No complaints from this building in the last three years. Worth knowing what that does and does not mean: tenants who expect nothing to happen often stop calling.

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.

No marshal evictions recorded at this building since 2017.

Filings

Public filing

Building permits

No DOB permits filed for this building in the last five years.

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)
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  • 2024No infested units reported (2023 report)
  • 2023No infested units reported (2022 report)
  • 2022No infested units reported (2021 report)
  • 2021No infested units reported (2020 report)
  • 2020No infested units reported (2019 report)
  • 2019No infested units reported (2017 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.

  • Registered managing agent

    LISA FICALORA

    Public records list LISA FICALORA as the registered managing agent for this address as of 3 Sept 2025. Source: HPD registration.

    Other buildings listed under this agent (2 in the records we hold)

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  • Owner of record

    1871 TROUTMAN STREET CORP

    Public records list 1871 TROUTMAN STREET CORP as the owner of record for this address as of 3 Sept 2025. 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 currently has 2 open immediately-hazardous violations on this building. Ask which apartments they concern, how many are in the one you would be renting, and when HPD re-inspects.
  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. Ask what the deposit is, exactly what can be deducted from it, and how and when it comes back.
  4. 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 4033940052 · Block 3394, Lot 52 · Building class C2