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2033 Palmetto Street, Ridgewood, NY 11385

Built 1910 · 3-story walk-up · 6 apartments

1 immediately hazardous violation open. 4 open in all. On the state's rent-stabilization list for 2024.

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Open violations
41 · 3
Public record
Updated todayFrom the city’s own data (, 311, the courts), refreshed nightly.

Violations issued each year

None issued since 2022. 17 violations before that, the first in 2015.

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Open per apartment
0.7 (4 open across 6 apartments)
Inspector last found a problem
9 Jan 2020 (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

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 hazardous1 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.

  • Abate the nuisance consisting of 2 lockable slide bolts at bulkhead door leading to roof

    Issued 9 Jan 2020Notice certified late 27 Jan 2020Roof and outside the building§ 27-2005 +1

Hazardous3 open

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

  • Provide an approved and operational carbon monoxide detecting device, installed in accordance with applicable law and rules., 3rd story at south

    Issued 9 Dec 2015Invalid certification 7 Jan 2016Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2046.1

  • Repair or replace the smoke detector missing, 3rd story at south

    Issued 9 Dec 2015Invalid certification 7 Jan 2016Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2045

  • Properly secure the loose wash basin to the wall in the bathroom, 3rd story at south

    Issued 9 Dec 2015Invalid certification 7 Jan 2016Walls and ceilings§ 27-2005

Paperwork and notices4 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.

  • ×2File 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.

    2 issued 12 Jun 2025 to 7 May 2026Notice sent outPaperwork and notices

  • ×2Owner 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.

    2 issued 2 Dec 2024 to 21 Nov 2025Info notice sent outPaperwork and notices§ 27-2107

13 closed violations, plus 6 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.

  • Properly repair with similar material the broken or defective porcelain enamel finish at bathtub in the bathroom, 3rd story at south

    Issued 9 Jan 2020Violation dismissed 26 May 2020Leaks and plumbing§ 27-2005

  • Trace and repair the source and abate the visible mold condition... approx 1 square feet at ceiling in the bathroom, 3rd story at south

    Issued 9 Jan 2020Violation dismissed 26 May 2020Mold and damp§ 27-2017.3

  • Paint metal in accordance with dept. regulation steam pipe riser in the bathroom, 3rd story at south

    Issued 9 Jan 2020Violation dismissed 26 May 2020Heat and hot water§ 27-2005

  • Paint metal in accordance with dept. regulation all radiators in the entire apartment, 3rd story at south

    Issued 9 Jan 2020Violation dismissed 26 May 2020Heat and hot water§ 27-2005

  • Paint with light colored paint to the satisfaction of this department door frame in the bathroom, 3rd story at south

    Issued 9 Jan 2020Violation dismissed 26 May 2020Doors and windows§ 27-2013

  • Repair the broken or defective plastered surfaces and paint in a uniform color south wall in the 3rd room from east, 3rd story at south

    Issued 9 Jan 2020Violation dismissed 26 May 2020Walls and ceilings§ 27-2005

  • Properly repair the source and abate the evidence of a water leak north wall in the bathroom, 3rd story at south

    Issued 9 Jan 2020Violation dismissed 26 Apr 2020Leaks and plumbing§ 27-2026

  • Properly repair the broken or defective spring balance at lower window sash in the 1st room from east, 3rd story at south

    Issued 9 Jan 2020Violation dismissed 26 Apr 2020Doors and windows§ 27-2005

  • Repair the flushing apparatus and maintain same so as to flush effectively the water closet.. in the bathroom, 3rd story at south

    Issued 9 Jan 2020Violation dismissed 26 Apr 2020§ 27-2026

  • Repair the broken or defective plastered surfaces and paint in a uniform color north wall in the bathroom, 3rd story at south

    Issued 9 Jan 2020Violation dismissed 26 Apr 2020Walls and ceilings§ 27-2005

  • Provide adequate light of not less than 60 watts incandescent or equivalent illumination at the electrical light fixture, south wall at public hall, 2nd story

    Issued 9 Jan 2020Violation dismissed 26 Apr 2020Electrical§ 27-2039

  • Arrange and make self-closing the doors.. in the entrance, 3rd story at south

    Issued 9 Jan 2020Violation dismissed 12 Apr 2020Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2005 +1

  • Arrange and make self-closing the doors at secondary egress door in the 1st room from east, 3rd story at south

    Issued 9 Jan 2020Violation dismissed 12 Apr 2020Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2005 +1

27 violations on record in total, 8 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.

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 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 (2022 report)
Show 4 earlier reports
  • 2023No infested units reported (2021 report)
  • 2022No infested units reported (2020 report)
  • 2022No infested units reported (2020 report)
  • 2021No infested units reported (2019 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.

The most recent registration on file for this address expired 29 Sept 2024 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.

  • Registered managing agent

    TRIFU DRAGUC

    Public records list TRIFU DRAGUC as the registered managing agent for this address as of 12 Oct 2023. Source: HPD registration.

  • Owner of record

    MARIA DRAGUC

    Public records list MARIA DRAGUC as the owner of record for this address as of 12 Oct 2023. 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 one open immediately-hazardous violation on this building. Ask which apartment it concerns, whether it has been corrected, and when HPD re-inspects.
  2. The city recorded 1 mould violation here, most recently in 2020, all since closed. Closed means the city stopped checking, not that the damp is gone. 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 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.
  4. 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.
  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 4034860049 · Block 3486, Lot 49 · Building class C2