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1663 Madison Street, Ridgewood, NY 11385

Built 1931 · 4-story walk-up · 7 apartments

2 immediately hazardous violations open. 5 open in all.

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Open violations
52 · 3
Public record
Updated todayFrom the city’s own data (, 311, the courts), refreshed nightly.

Violations issued each year

Violations issued each year
YearHazardousNon-hazardous
202200
202300
2024231
202520
2026 so far00

Plus 4 violations from 1982 to 2021. Counted when issued, whether open or fixed since. Paperwork left out.

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Found most often since 2022
  • Heat and hot water 11
  • Appliances 6
  • Fire and safety equipment 5
Open per apartment
0.7 (5 open across 7 apartments)
Inspector last found a problem
23 Jan 2025 (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

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

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.

  • 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 = 5; wg to replace = 0; wg to repair = 0; in the entire apartment, 4th story at north

    Issued 23 Jan 2025Notice sent out 26 Jan 2025Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2043.1

  • Abate the infestation consisting of roaches in the entire apartment, 1st story at north

    Issued 22 Jul 2024Defect letter issued 17 Jan 2025Pests§ 27-2017.4

Hazardous3 open

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

  • Repair or replace the carbon monoxide detecting device(s). defective in the entire apartment, 4th story at east

    Issued 16 Jun 2024Not complied with 23 Jan 2025Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2046.1

  • Repair or replace the smoke detector defective in the entire apartment, 4th story at east

    Issued 16 Jun 2024Not complied with 23 Jan 2025Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2045

  • Trace and repair the source and abate the visible mold condition... approximately 12 square feet at ceiling and approximately 4 square feet at south wall in the bathroom, 1st story at north

    Issued 11 Jun 2024Notice certified late 12 Feb 2025Mold and damp§ 27-2017.3

25 closed violations, plus 14 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.

  • Replace or repair the self-closing doors that is missing or defective self closing hinges at door leading to cellar at public hall, 1st story

    Issued 16 Jan 2025Violation closed 19 May 2025Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2005 +3

  • ×2Provide an adequate supply of gas to the fixtures at range in the kitchen, 1st story at north

    2 issued 10 Jun 2024 to 11 Jun 2024Violation closedAppliances§ 27-2070

  • Provide an adequate supply of gas to the fixtures at range in the kitchen, 2nd story

    Issued 8 Jun 2024Violation closed 21 Jan 2025Appliances§ 27-2070

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

    Issued 8 Jun 2024Violation closed 21 Jan 2025Heat and hot water§ 27-2031

  • Properly repair or replace the broken or defective electric fixture at ceiling in the kitchen, 1st story at north

    Issued 11 Jun 2024Violation closed 18 Jan 2025Electrical§ 27-2005

  • Provide written notice to the tenants at least twenty-four hours prior to essential service interruption by posting a notice in a prominent place within the public part of the building and on each floor of such building, where an owner must make a repair that may result in an interruption of essential services such as utilities(heat, hot water, gas, electricity, or elevator) that is expected to continue for more than two hours. sample notice available at www.nyc.gov/hpd or as provided in this notice of violation....

    Issued 8 Jun 2024Violation closed 18 Jan 2025Heat and hot water§ 27-2005

  • Provide ready access to buildings heating system door lock at cellar at boiler room

    Issued 16 Jun 2024Violation closed 5 Sept 2024Heat and hot water§ 27-2033

  • Replace or repair the self-closing doors that is missing or defective hinges at door leading to boiler room at public hall, 1st story

    Issued 15 Jun 2024Violation closed 5 Sept 2024Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2005 +3

  • ×2Post notice, in form approved by the department, stating the name and location of the person designated by the owner to have key to buildings heating system near or at mailbox at public hall, 1st story

    2 issued 10 Jun 2024 to 15 Jun 2024Violation closedHeat and hot water§ 27-2033

  • 2011, 2012 adm code remove the accumulation of refuse and/or rubbish and maintain in a clean condition the at front yard

    Issued 11 Jun 2024Violation closed 5 Sept 2024Garbage and cleanliness§ 27-2010

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

    Issued 10 Jun 2024Violation closed 5 Sept 2024Heat and hot water§ 27-2033

  • Provide hot water at all hot water fixtures in the entire apartment, 4th story at east

    Issued 16 Jun 2024Violation closed 9 Jul 2024Heat and hot water§ 27-2031

  • Provide hot water at all hot water fixtures in the entire apartment, 4th story at north

    Issued 15 Jun 2024Violation closed 8 Jul 2024Heat and hot water§ 27-2031

  • Provide an adequate supply of gas to the fixtures to gas range in the kitchen, 4th story at east

    Issued 16 Jun 2024Violation dismissed 5 Jul 2024Appliances§ 27-2070

  • Provide an adequate supply of gas to the fixtures at range in the kitchen, 4th story at north

    Issued 15 Jun 2024Violation dismissed 5 Jul 2024Appliances§ 27-2070

  • Provide hot water at all hot water fixtures in the entire apartment, 1st story at north

    Issued 10 Jun 2024Violation closed 3 Jul 2024Heat and hot water§ 27-2031

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

    Issued 8 Jun 2024Violation closed 1 Jul 2024Heat and hot water§ 27-2031

  • Provide an adequate supply of gas to the fixtures at range in the kitchen, 2nd story at north

    Issued 8 Jun 2024Violation dismissed 29 Jun 2024Appliances§ 27-2070

  • Provide hot water at all hot water fixtures in the entire apartment, 1st story at north

    Issued 11 Jun 2024Violation dismissed 28 Jun 2024Heat and hot water§ 27-2031

  • 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 200 watts required fixture present light not on

    Issued 8 Mar 2002Violation dismissed 17 Feb 2022Electrical§ 27-2040

  • 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 night inspection fixtures present lights not on.

    Issued 15 Oct 1982Violation dismissed 17 Feb 2022Electrical§ D26-19.07

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

    Issued 20 Jan 1982Violation closed 17 Oct 2017Fire and safety equipment§ D26-20.08 +1

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

    Issued 7 May 1982Violation dismissed 9 Mar 2015§ D26-41.03

44 violations on record in total, 5 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.

25 complaints in three years, 2 of them in the last twelve months.

  • Heat and hot water0 / 9
  • Cooking gas0 / 5
  • Noise2 / 3
  • Pests0 / 2
  • Doors and windows0 / 2
  • Appliances0 / 2
  • Garbage and cleanliness0 / 1
  • Leaks and plumbing0 / 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.

4 cases, all closed.

  • Tenant Action

    Opened 29 Jul 2024

  • Tenant Action

    Opened 25 Jul 2024

  • Heat and Hot Water

    Opened 24 Jul 2024

  • Tenant Action

    Opened 24 Jun 2024

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)
Show 7 earlier reports
  • 2024No infested units reported (2023 report)
  • 2023No infested units reported (2022 report)
  • 20231 of 7 units reported infested (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.

  • Registered managing agent

    PATOMA INC

    Public records list PATOMA INC as the registered managing agent for this address as of 16 Feb 2026. Source: HPD registration.

    Other buildings listed under this agent (7 in the records we hold)

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  • Owner of record

    PATOMA MADISON LLC

    Public records list PATOMA MADISON LLC as the owner of record for this address as of 16 Feb 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 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. There is 1 open mould violation on record. Ask to look behind furniture and under sinks, and ask what was done the last time; a repaint is not a repair.
  3. 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.
  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 4034500062 · Block 3450, Lot 62 · Building class C1