1866 Putnam Avenue, Ridgewood, NY 11385
Built 1911 · 3-story walk-up · 6 apartments
11 open violations, none immediately hazardous. On the state's rent-stabilization list for 2024.
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- Open violations
- 118 · 3
- Public record
- Updated todayFrom the city’s own data (, 311, the courts), refreshed nightly.
Violations issued each year
| Year | Hazardous | Non-hazardous |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2 | 0 |
| 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026 so far | 0 | 0 |
Plus 9 violations from 1997 to 2021. Counted when issued, whether open or fixed since. Paperwork left out.
See every violation- Found most often since 2022
- Pests 2
- Open per apartment
- 1.8 (11 open across 6 apartments)
- Inspector last found a problem
- 16 Aug 2023 (visits that find nothing are not published)
What do these labels mean?Where each of these comes from
- 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.
Tenant reviews
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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.
| Winter | DaysDays with complaints | Complaints | Violations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025–26 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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 filingThe 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 violationHazardous8 open
Class B. A hazardous condition: a leak, mould, a defective floor. The owner has 30 days to correct it.
×2Abate the infestation consisting of bedbugs in the entire apartment, 3rd story at south
2 issued 16 Aug 2023Notice sent outPests§ 27-2017.4
Properly repair the broken or defective counterbalance at lower window sash in the kitchen, 3rd story
Issued 6 Jul 2008Notice sent out 7 Jul 2008Doors and windows§ 27-2005
Repair or replace the smoke detector missing 1 sty an apartment ms jolanta andrejewska., 1st story, section '' ''
Issued 29 Oct 1999Notice sent out 9 Sept 2007Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2045
Abate the nuisance consisting of vermin roaches 1 sty an apartment., 1st story, section '' ''
Issued 29 Oct 1999Notice sent out 9 Sept 2007Pests§ 27-2018
Properly repair the broken or defective inoperable door front room to pub hall seal over with sheetrock 1 sty an apartment., 1st story, section '' ''
Issued 29 Oct 1999Notice sent out 9 Sept 2007Doors and windows§ 27-2005
Replace with new the missing sash chain south window lower sash front room 3 sty an apartment., section '' ''
Issued 15 Aug 1997Notice sent out 9 Sept 2007Doors and windows§ 27-2005
Discontinue the storage of combustible material mattress & upholstred furniture cellar thruout.
Issued 15 Aug 1997Notice sent out 20 Aug 2008§ 12
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.
Repair the broken or defective plastered surfaces and paint in a uniform color ceiling in the kitchen, 3rd story
Issued 6 Jul 2008Notice sent out 7 Jul 2008Walls and ceilings§ 27-2005
File plans and application and legalize the following alteration or restore to the legal condition existing prior to the making of said alteration 3 ft by 7 ft opening kitchen wall creating door to rear yard with wooden platform 1 sty an apartment., 1st story, section '' ''
Issued 29 Oct 1999Notice sent out 9 Sept 2007Roof and outside the building§ 300
Paint with light colored paint to the satisfaction of this department ceiling 3 sty pub hall.
Issued 15 Aug 1997Notice sent out 9 Sept 2007Walls and ceilings§ 27-2013
Paperwork and notices6 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.
×3File 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.
3 issued 16 Apr 2024 to 7 May 2026Notice sent outPaperwork and notices
×3Owner failed to file a valid registration statement with the department as required by adm code §27-2097 and is therefore subject to civil penalties, prohibited from certifying violations, and denied the right to recover possession of premises for nonpayment of rent until a valid registration statement is filed.
3 issued 27 Nov 2023 to 21 Nov 2025Info notice sent outPaperwork and notices§ 27-2107
24 violations on record in total, 17 of them open. The count at the top of this page counts habitability violations only.
Complaints to the city
Public complaintComplaints 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 recordHousing 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 filingBuilding 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.
- 2023No infested units reported (2021 report)
Ownership and management
Public filingAssociations 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.
The most recent registration on file for this address expired 31 Aug 2023 and has not been renewed since, so it is more than a full cycle old. Whoever is named below may no longer be responsible for the building.
Owner of record
JOSEPH BIRNBACH
Public records list JOSEPH BIRNBACH as the owner of record for this address as of 17 Sept 2022. Source: HPD registration.
Owner of record
JOSEF BIRNBACH
Public records list JOSEF BIRNBACH as the owner of record for this address as of 17 Sept 2022. Source: HPD registration.
Wrong company, wrong date, or a change that is not reflected here? Report a correction.
What to ask at the viewing
1866 Putnam Avenue, Ridgewood, NY 11385
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.
- The city has 8 open hazardous violations on this building. Ask which apartments they concern and what has been done since.
- The owner has filed a bedbug report for this building (most recently for the year ending 2023). 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.
- 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.
- 6 open violations for not filing something the city requires, usually the annual registration or the annual bedbug report. Nothing anyone lives in, but it is the record's plainest measure of whether this owner follows through.
- Ask what the deposit is, exactly what can be deducted from it, and how and when it comes back.
- 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
Yes. HPD lists 11 open housing violations: 0 immediately hazardous, 8 hazardous and 3 non-hazardous. Paperwork filings, such as a late registration, are not counted.
Since 2022, HPD inspectors have written the most violations here for pests (2).
On 16 Aug 2023. HPD only publishes inspections that found something, so a later visit that found nothing would not show here.
The owner registered at least one rent-stabilized apartment here with the state for 2024. The list does not say which apartments. A tenant can ask the state for an apartment's rent history to be sure.
No heat or hot-water complaints or violations were recorded here in the 2025–26 heat season.
No residential evictions by a city marshal are recorded here since 2017.
Not yet. Reviews come from people who lived here, and none has been published for this building.
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