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1729 Harman Street, Ridgewood, NY 11385

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

9 immediately hazardous violations open. 14 open in all. On the state's rent-stabilization list for 2024.

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Open violations
149 · 5
Public record
Updated yesterdayFrom the city’s own data (, 311, the courts), refreshed nightly.

Violations issued each year

Violations issued each year
YearHazardousNon-hazardous
202200
202350
202400
202500
2026 so far90

Plus 17 violations from 1987 to 2021. Counted when issued, whether open or fixed since. Paperwork left out.

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Found most often since 2022
  • Fire and safety equipment 11
  • Heat and hot water 2
  • Electrical 1
Open per apartment
2.3 (14 open across 6 apartments)
Inspector last found a problem
8 Feb 2026 (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

Last winter (2025–26), the city received heat or hot-water complaints about this building on 4 days, and inspectors issued 2 violations.

WinterDaysComplaintsViolations
2025–26452

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 hazardous9 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.

  • Replace or repair the self-closing doors that is missing or defective hinges in the entrance, 1st story at east

    Issued 8 Feb 2026Notice sent out 9 Feb 2026Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2005 +3

  • Replace or repair the self-closing doors that is missing or defective spring in the entrance, 2nd story at south

    Issued 1 Feb 2026Invalid certification 11 Feb 2026Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2005 +3

  • Replace or repair the self-closing doors that is missing or defective hinges at secondary egress door in the 1st room from east, 2nd story at south

    Issued 1 Feb 2026Invalid certification 11 Feb 2026Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2005 +3

  • Replace or repair the self-closing doors that is missing or defective at bulkead at public hall, 3rd story

    Issued 5 Apr 2023Notice sent out 6 Apr 2023Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2005 +2

  • Abate the nuisance consisting of key operated lock installed at door leading to the secondary egress door in the 1st room from east, 2nd story at north

    Issued 9 Mar 2023Notice certified late 26 Mar 2023Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2005 +1

  • Correct the lead-based paint hazard - presumed lead paint that is peeling or on a deteriorated subsurface using work practices set forth in 28 rcny §11-06(b)(2) south wall, west wall in the kitchen, 2nd story at north

    Issued 17 Mar 2021Defect letter issued 9 Mar 2023Lead paint§ 27-2056.6

  • Replace or repair the self-closing doors that is missing or defective in the entrance, 2nd story at north

    Issued 17 Mar 2021Not complied with 9 Mar 2023Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2005 +2

  • Replace or repair the self-closing doors that is missing or defective secondary egress door in the 1st room from east, 2nd story at north

    Issued 17 Mar 2021Not complied with 9 Mar 2023Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2005 +2

  • Abate the nuisance consisting of key operated lock installed at door leading to seconday egress door in the 1st room from east, 2nd story at north

    Issued 17 Mar 2021Not complied with 9 Mar 2023Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2005 +1

Hazardous5 open

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

  • Repair, replace or provide an approved and operational smoke detecting device, installed in accordance with department of buildings rules and regulations missing in the entire apartment, 1st story at east

    Issued 8 Feb 2026Notice sent out 9 Feb 2026Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2045 +2

  • Repair, replace or provide an approved and operational carbon monoxide detecting device, installed in accordance with applicable law and rules missing in the entire apartment, 1st story at east

    Issued 8 Feb 2026Notice sent out 9 Feb 2026Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2045 +3

  • Repair, replace or provide an approved and operational carbon monoxide detecting device, installed in accordance with applicable law and rules missing in the entire apartment, 2nd story at south

    Issued 1 Feb 2026Invalid certification 11 Feb 2026Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2045 +3

  • Repair, replace or provide an approved and operational smoke detecting device, installed in accordance with department of buildings rules and regulations missing in the entire apartment, 2nd story at south

    Issued 1 Feb 2026Invalid certification 11 Feb 2026Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2045 +2

  • Properly repair and abate unsafe electric wiring condition consisting of exposed electric wire at south wall at public hall, 2nd story

    Issued 5 Apr 2023Notice sent out 6 Apr 2023Electrical§ 27-2005

17 closed violations, plus 4 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.

  • Provide ready access to buildings heating system door locked at basement at boiler room

    Issued 1 Feb 2026Violation dismissed 26 Apr 2026Heat and hot water§ 27-2033

  • Provide hot water at all hot water fixtures in the 3rd room from east, 2nd story at south

    Issued 1 Feb 2026Violation dismissed 26 Apr 2026Heat and hot water§ 27-2031

  • Replace or repair the self-closing doors that is missing or defective at secondary egress door leading to 2nd story public hall in the 1st room from east, 2nd story at north

    Issued 9 Mar 2023Violation closed 5 Apr 2023Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2005 +2

  • Replace or repair the self-closing doors that is missing or defective in the entrance, 2nd story at north

    Issued 9 Mar 2023Violation closed 5 Apr 2023Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2005 +2

  • Replace or repair the self-closing doors that is missing or defective in the entrance, 2nd story at west

    Issued 18 Mar 2021Violation closed 9 Mar 2023Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2005 +2

  • Remove the illegal double cylinder key operated locking device at door at secondary egress door in the 1st room from east, 2nd story at north

    Issued 17 Mar 2021Violation closed 9 Mar 2023Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2005

  • Provide hot water at all hot water fixtures in the entire apartment, 2nd story at north

    Issued 17 Mar 2021Violation closed 9 Mar 2023Heat and hot water§ 27-2031

  • Install the missing or repair/replace the defective window guard(s) in accordance with the specifications of the new york city health code section 24 rcny chapter 12. wg to install = 2; wg to replace = 1; wg to repair = 2; missing one way screws in the entire apartment, 2nd story at north

    Issued 17 Mar 2021Violation closed 9 Mar 2023Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2043.1

  • Repair or replace the carbon monoxide detecting device(s). missing, 2nd story at north

    Issued 17 Mar 2021Violation closed 9 Mar 2023Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2046.1

  • Repair or replace the smoke detector missing, 2nd story at north

    Issued 17 Mar 2021Violation closed 9 Mar 2023Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2045

  • Provide ready access to buildings heating system door locked at public hall, 1st story

    Issued 17 Mar 2021Violation closed 9 Mar 2023Heat and hot water§ 27-2033

  • Remove all encumbrances consisting of household items cans etc 3 sty to bulkhead stair.

    Issued 15 May 1987Violation closed 2 Aug 2018Fire and safety equipment§ D26-10.01 +1

  • Repair or replace the smoke detector missing in the entire apartment, 1st story at west

    Issued 12 Jul 2013Violation dismissed 30 Oct 2013Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2045

  • Repair or replace the carbon monoxide detecting device(s). missing in the entire apartment, 1st story at west

    Issued 12 Jul 2013Violation dismissed 30 Oct 2013Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2046.1

  • Abate the nuisance consisting of mice in the entire apartment, 1st story at west

    Issued 12 Jul 2013Violation dismissed 30 Oct 2013Pests§ 27-2018

  • Repair the broken or defective plastered surfaces and paint in a uniform color ceiling and walls in the bathroom, 1st story at west

    Issued 12 Jul 2013Violation dismissed 30 Oct 2013Walls and ceilings§ 27-2005

  • Abate the nuisance consisting of bedbugs in the entire apartment, 1st story at west

    Issued 12 Jul 2013Violation dismissed 30 Oct 2013Pests§ 27-2018

35 violations on record in total, 14 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.

5 complaints in three years, 5 of them in the last twelve months.

  • Heat and hot water5 / 5

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.

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.

  • 2025No infested units reported (2024 report)
Show 7 earlier reports
  • 2024No infested units reported (2023 report)
  • 2023No infested units reported (2022 report)
  • 2022No infested units reported (2021 report)
  • 2021No infested units reported (2020 report)
  • 2021No infested units reported (2019 report)
  • 2020No infested units reported (2018 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.

  • Owner of record

    SOOPCHAND CHETRAM

    Public records list SOOPCHAND CHETRAM as the owner of record for this address as of 27 Jul 2026. Source: HPD registration.

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

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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 9 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. There were 5 heat or hot-water complaints here in the last twelve months. Ask who handles heat, how quickly it is usually restored, and whether the boiler has been replaced.
  3. The owner has filed a bedbug report for this building (most recently for the year ending 2025). 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.
  4. This building dates from 1930 and has 1 open lead-paint violation on record. If a child under six will live here, ask what testing and remediation has been done and ask for it in writing.
  5. Ask what the deposit is, exactly what can be deducted from it, and how and when it comes back.
  6. 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 4034320052 · Block 3432, Lot 52 · Building class C2