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66-38 Forest Avenue, Ridgewood, NY 11385

Built 1911 · 3-story walk-up with stores · 6 apartments

1 immediately hazardous violation open. 11 open in all.

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Open violations
111 · 10
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 1982.

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Open per apartment
1.8 (11 open across 6 apartments)
Inspector last found a problem
8 Jan 1989 (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 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 key operated double cylinder lock on entrance door street to front east room 1 sty an apartment., section '' ''

    Issued 8 Jan 1989Notice sent out 16 Jun 2008Doors and windows§ 27-2005 +1

Hazardous10 open

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

  • 301, 302, m/d law file plans and obtain a certificate of occupancy to legalize the following alteration or restore premises to prior legal condition store converted to class a an apartment sty an apartment.

    Issued 8 Jan 1989Notice sent out 16 Jun 2008§ 300

  • Repair or replace the smoke detector missing 1 sty an apartment mrs kolewovics., section '' ''

    Issued 8 Jan 1989Notice sent out 16 Jun 2008Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2045

  • Provide adequate light of not less than 60 watts incandescent or equivalent illumination 1 sty public vestibule.

    Issued 22 Dec 1988Notice sent out 16 Jun 2008Electrical§ 27-2039

  • Repair the broken or defective plastered surfaces and paint in a uniform color walls around mailboxes 1 sty pub vestibule.

    Issued 26 Oct 1988Notice sent out 16 Jun 2008Entry, buzzer and mail§ 27-2005

  • Provide an approved and operational smoke detecting device, installed in accordance with department of buildings rules and regulations missing 1 sty an apartment.

    Issued 26 Oct 1988Notice sent out 16 Jun 2008Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2045 +1

  • Provide adequate light of not less than 60 watts incandescent or equivalent illumination 1 sty pub vestibule.

    Issued 26 Oct 1988Notice sent out 16 Jun 2008Electrical§ 27-2039

  • 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 incandescent or equivalent night inspection.

    Issued 25 Sept 1986Notice sent out 16 Jun 2008Electrical§ D26-19.07

  • Arrange and make self-closing the doors bulkhead pub hall night inspection.

    Issued 25 Sept 1986Notice sent out 16 Jun 2008Fire and safety equipment§ D26-10.01 +1

  • Remove all encumbrances consisting of household articles 3 sty pub hall night inspection.

    Issued 25 Sept 1986Notice sent out 16 Jun 2008Fire and safety equipment§ D26-10.01 +1

  • Provide adequate light of not less than 60 watts incandescent or equivalent illumination 1 sty pub hall night inspection.

    Issued 25 Sept 1986Notice sent out 16 Jun 2008Electrical§ D26-19.05

Paperwork and notices1 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.

  • Dept. rules and regs. provide a completed certificate of inspection visits in a proper frame at or near mailboxes, bottom edge of frame between 48-62 inches above floor frame missing.

    Issued 26 Oct 1988Notice sent out 16 Jun 2008Paperwork and notices§ 329

1 closed violation, plus 12 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.

  • 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

25 violations on record in total, 12 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.

1 complaint in three years, 0 of them in the last twelve months.

  • Garbage and cleanliness0 / 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.

  • 2026No infested units reported (2024 report)
Show 3 earlier reports
  • 2025No infested units reported (2023 report)
  • 2024No infested units reported (2022 report)
  • 2023No infested units reported (2021 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

    NOT APPLICABLE

    Public records list NOT APPLICABLE as the registered managing agent for this address as of 25 Sept 2026. Source: HPD registration.

    Other buildings listed under this agent (2 in the records we hold)

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  • Owner of record

    JOHN ZAIKA

    Public records list JOHN ZAIKA as the owner of record for this address as of 25 Sept 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 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 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.
  3. Ask what the deposit is, exactly what can be deducted from it, and how and when it comes back.
  4. 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 4034890037 · Block 3489, Lot 37 · Building class S9