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761 Seneca Avenue, Ridgewood, NY 11385

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

12 open violations, none immediately hazardous. On the state's rent-stabilization list for 2024.

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Open violations
129 · 3
Public record
Updated todayFrom the city’s own data (, 311, the courts), refreshed nightly.

Violations issued each year

None issued since 2022. 12 violations before that, the first in 1990.

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Open per apartment
2 (12 open across 6 apartments)
Inspector last found a problem
31 Jul 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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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

Last winter (2025–26), the city received heat or hot-water complaints about this building on 1 day.

WinterDaysComplaintsViolations
2025–26110

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

Hazardous9 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 100 watts required, fixture present, lights not on at front areaway

    Issued 31 Jul 2001Notice sent out 27 Aug 2007Electrical§ 27-2040

  • Properly secure the loose light fixture above cellar door stair to 1 sty public hall.

    Issued 29 Apr 1991Notice sent out 27 Aug 2007Doors and windows§ 27-2005

  • Remove the illegal fastening double cylinder operated key lock installed entrance door 1 sty an apartment.

    Issued 29 Apr 1991Notice sent out 27 Aug 2007Doors and windows§ 27-2005 +1

  • Abate the nuisance consisting of uncap gasline south wall private hall 1 sty an apartment.

    Issued 29 Apr 1991Notice sent out 27 Aug 2007Walls and ceilings§ 27-2005 +1

  • Arrange and make self-closing the doors entrance to 1 sty an apartment., section '' ''

    Issued 29 Apr 1991Notice sent out 12 Aug 2008Fire and safety equipment§ D26-10.01 +1

  • Arrange and make self-closing the doors bulkhead to roof.

    Issued 29 Apr 1991Notice sent out 27 Aug 2007Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2005 +1

  • Arrange and make self-closing the doors entrance 2 sty an apartment., section '' ''

    Issued 28 Aug 1990Notice sent out 12 Aug 2008Fire and safety equipment§ D26-10.01 +1

  • Arrange and make self-closing the doors entrance 2 sty an apartment r80., section '' ''

    Issued 28 Aug 1990Notice sent out 12 Aug 2008Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2005 +1

  • Fire egress defective. remove obstructing bars or unlawful gates from window to fire escape or provide approved type gate 2 sty an apartment., section '' ''

    Issued 28 Aug 1990Notice sent out 27 Aug 2007Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2005 +1

Non-hazardous3 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 rear stack all stys.

    Issued 29 Apr 1991Notice sent out 27 Aug 2007Walls and ceilings§ 27-2014

  • File plans and application and legalize the following alteration or restore to the legal condition existing prior to the making of said alteration bathroom erected cellar center.

    Issued 29 Apr 1991Notice sent out 12 Aug 2008§ 300

  • File plans and application and legalize the following alteration or restore to the legal condition existing prior to the making of said alteration celotex type suspended clg 1 sty east an apartment frnt room., section '' ''

    Issued 29 Apr 1991Notice sent out 12 Aug 2008§ 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.

  • File annual bedbug report in accordance with hpd rule as described on the back of this notice of violation or as described on hpds website, www.nyc.gov\hpd, search bed bugs.

    Issued 7 May 2026Notice sent out 6 May 2026Paperwork and notices

  • 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 29 Apr 1991Notice sent out 27 Aug 2007Paperwork and notices§ 27-2104

17 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.

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

  • Cooking gas1 / 1
  • Heat and hot water1 / 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.

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.

  • 2024No infested units reported (2023 report)
Show 5 earlier reports
  • 2023No infested units reported (2022 report)
  • 2022No infested units reported (2021 report)
  • 2022No infested units reported (2020 report)
  • 20211 of 6 units reported infested (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.

  • Owner of record and managing agent

    761 SENECA AVE. REALTY LLC

    Public records list 761 SENECA AVE. REALTY LLC as the owner of record and the registered managing agent for this address as of 8 Jul 2025. Source: HPD registration.

The current registration for this address names no owner or managing agent.

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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 9 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 2024). 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. The building's HPD registration is out of date or names nobody we could identify. Ask who the managing agent is and get a name, a phone number and an address in writing before you sign.
  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 4034590004 · Block 3459, Lot 4 · Building class C2