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1930 Palmetto Street, Ridgewood, NY 11385

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

6 open violations, none immediately hazardous.

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Open violations
66
Public record
Updated todayFrom the city’s own data (, 311, the courts), refreshed nightly.

Violations issued each year

None issued since 2022. 6 violations before that, the first in 2013.

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Open per apartment
1 (6 open across 6 apartments)
Inspector last found a problem
27 Oct 2014 (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

Hazardous6 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 a minimum of 100 watts of incandescent light required. (light fixture present)

    Issued 27 Oct 2014Notice sent out 28 Oct 2014Electrical§ 27-2040

  • Provide a safe and adequate supply of electric service to the fixtures at ceiling in the kitchen, 1st story at east

    Issued 24 Oct 2013Notice sent out 27 Oct 2013Electrical§ 27-2037

  • Repair the leaky and/or defective faucets at bathtub in the bathroom, 1st story at east

    Issued 24 Oct 2013Notice sent out 27 Oct 2013Leaks and plumbing§ 27-2026

  • Provide a safe and adequate supply of electric service to the fixtures at ceiling in the bathroom, 1st story at east

    Issued 24 Oct 2013Notice sent out 27 Oct 2013Electrical§ 27-2037

  • Repair or replace the carbon monoxide detecting device(s). inoperative, 1st story at east

    Issued 24 Oct 2013Notice sent out 27 Oct 2013Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2046.1

  • Repair or replace the smoke detector inoperative, 1st story at east

    Issued 24 Oct 2013Notice sent out 27 Oct 2013Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2045

18 violations on record in total, 6 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.

7 complaints in three years, 1 of them in the last twelve months.

  • Noise1 / 5
  • Construction and illegal work0 / 1
  • Fire and safety equipment0 / 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 permit currently in force. 2 permits filed in the last five years.

Show 2 expired or finished

  • Plumbing

    Plumbing plans filed in conjunction with Alt CO application #Q07996552-I1

    Issued 7 Dec 2023Expired 7 Dec 2024

  • Mechanical Systems

    Mechanical plans filed in conjunction with Alt CO application #Q07996552-I1

    Issued 13 Oct 2023Expired 13 Oct 2024

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 4 earlier reports
  • 2025No infested units reported (2023 report)
  • 2024No infested units reported (2022 report)
  • 2023No infested units reported (2021 report)
  • 2022No infested units reported (2020 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

    JOSEPH LICHTMAN

    Public records list JOSEPH LICHTMAN as the owner of record for this address as of 20 Aug 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 has 6 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 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.
  3. Leaks and plumbing come up on this building's record. Ask which apartments were affected and whether the cause was ever found: 0 complaints in the last twelve months.
  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 4034790035 · Block 3479, Lot 35 · Building class C2