63-52 Fresh Pond Road, Ridgewood, NY 11385
Built 1930 · 3-story walk-up · 6 apartments
3 immediately hazardous violations open. 10 open in all. On the state's rent-stabilization list for 2024.
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- Open violations
- 103 · 4 · 3
- Public record
- Updated todayFrom the city’s own data (, 311, the courts), refreshed nightly.
Violations issued each year
| Year | Hazardous | Non-hazardous |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 3 | 0 |
| 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 10 | 3 |
| 2026 so far | 0 | 0 |
Counted when issued, whether open or fixed since. Paperwork left out.
See every violation- Found most often since 2022
- Fire and safety equipment 7
- Lead paint 5
- Doors and windows 2
- Open per apartment
- 1.7 (10 open across 6 apartments)
- Inspector last found a problem
- 12 Dec 2025 (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
Last winter (2025–26), the city received heat or hot-water complaints about this building on 5 days, and inspectors issued 1 violation.
| Winter | DaysDays with complaints | Complaints | Violations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025–26 | 5 | 5 | 1 |
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 violationImmediately hazardous3 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.
Certify compliance with lead-based paint hazard control requirements during period of unit vacancy by performing activities necessary to abate tested lead-based paint from required window and/or door friction surfaces for apartment and make floors smooth and cleanable, positive lead-based paint in an apartment with a child under six, 2nd story at north
Issued 1 Aug 2025Notice sent out 3 Aug 2025Lead paint§ 27-2056.7 +2
Replace or repair the self-closing doors that is missing or defective hinges at 1st door from west at north wall and 1st door from north at east wall in the entrance, 2nd story at north
Issued 1 Aug 2025Notice sent out 3 Aug 2025Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2005 +3
Replace or repair the self-closing doors that is missing or defective in the entrance, 2nd story at west
Issued 24 Sept 2022Notice sent out 25 Sept 2022Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2005 +2
Hazardous4 open
Class B. A hazardous condition: a leak, mould, a defective floor. The owner has 30 days to correct it.
Repair, replace or provide an approved and operational smoke detecting device, installed in accordance with department of buildings rules and regulations missing in the entire apartment, 2nd story at north
Issued 1 Aug 2025Notice certified late 22 Sept 2025Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2045 +2
Repair, replace or provide an approved and operational carbon monoxide detecting device, installed in accordance with applicable law and rules missing ( next to sleeping room) in the entire apartment, 2nd story at north
Issued 1 Aug 2025Notice certified late 22 Sept 2025Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2045 +3
Repair or replace the carbon monoxide detecting device(s). defective in the entire apartment, 2nd story at west
Issued 24 Sept 2022Invalid certification 13 Nov 2022Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2046.1
Repair or replace the smoke detector defective in the entire apartment, 2nd story at west
Issued 24 Sept 2022Invalid certification 13 Nov 2022Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2045
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.
Paint with light colored paint to the satisfaction of this department all peeling paint surfaces in the foyer, the 1st room from east, 2nd story at north
Issued 1 Aug 2025Notice sent out 3 Aug 2025Walls and ceilings§ 27-2013
Paint with light colored paint to the satisfaction of this department at 1st window frame from north at east wall in the 4th room from east, 2nd story at north
Issued 1 Aug 2025Notice sent out 3 Aug 2025Doors and windows§ 27-2013
Paint with light colored paint to the satisfaction of this department at 1st window frame from west at north wall in the 3rd room from east, 2nd story at north
Issued 1 Aug 2025Notice sent out 3 Aug 2025Doors and windows§ 27-2013
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
Owner 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.
Issued 21 Nov 2025Info notice sent out 20 Nov 2025Paperwork and notices§ 27-2107
6 closed violations, plus 7 closed paperwork filingsShow fewer
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.
Abate the nuisance consisting of hot water temperature exceeds the allowable maximum of 130 degrees in the entire apartment, 1st story at south
Issued 12 Dec 2025Violation closed 25 Jan 2026Heat and hot water§ 27-2005 +1
Correct the lead-based paint hazard - paint that tested positive for lead content and that is peeling or on a deteriorated subsurface - using work practices set forth in 28 rcny §11-06(b)(2) 1st door frame from west at north wall, 1st window frame from south at west wall, 1st window sash from south at west wall in the bathroom, 2nd story at north
Issued 1 Aug 2025Violation closed 30 Nov 2025Lead paint§ 27-2056.6
Correct the lead-based paint hazard - paint that tested positive for lead content and that is peeling or on a deteriorated subsurface - using work practices set forth in 28 rcny §11-06(b)(2) 1st window sash from north at east wall in the 4th room from east, 2nd story at north
Issued 1 Aug 2025Violation closed 30 Nov 2025Lead paint§ 27-2056.6
Correct the lead-based paint hazard - paint that tested positive for lead content and that is peeling or on a deteriorated subsurface - using work practices set forth in 28 rcny §11-06(b)(2) 1st window sash from west at north wall in the 3rd room from east, 2nd story at north
Issued 1 Aug 2025Violation closed 30 Nov 2025Lead paint§ 27-2056.6
Correct the lead-based paint hazard - paint that tested positive for lead content and that is peeling or on a deteriorated subsurface - using work practices set forth in 28 rcny §11-06(b)(2) 1st window sash from south at west wall in the 2nd room from east, 2nd story at north
Issued 1 Aug 2025Violation closed 30 Nov 2025Lead paint§ 27-2056.6
Install the missing or repair/replace the defective window guard(s) in accordance with the specifications of the new york city health code section 24 rcny chapter 12. wg to install = 6, wg to replace = 0, wg to repair = 0 in the entire apartment, 2nd story at north
Issued 1 Aug 2025Violation closed 29 Oct 2025Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2043.1
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 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.
14 complaints in three years, 5 of them in the last twelve months.
- Heat and hot water5 / 9
- Electrical0 / 2
- Leaks and plumbing0 / 2
- 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 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.
- 2025No infested units reported (2023 report)
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- 2024No infested units reported (2022 report)
- 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 2025 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 and managing agent
WILLIAM GROTE
Public records list WILLIAM GROTE as the owner of record and the registered managing agent for this address as of 25 Sept 2024. Source: HPD registration.
Owner of record
RAYMOND KUMP
Public records list RAYMOND KUMP as the owner of record for this address as of 25 Sept 2024. Source: HPD registration.
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What to ask at the viewing
63-52 Fresh Pond Road, 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 currently has 3 open immediately-hazardous violations on this building. Ask which apartments they concern, how many are in the one you would be renting, and when HPD re-inspects.
- There were 5 heat or hot-water complaints here in the last twelve months. Ask who handles heat, how quickly it is usually restored, and whether the boiler has been replaced.
- 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.
- This building dates from 1930 and has 1 open lead-paint violation on record. If a child under six will live here, ask what testing and remediation has been done and ask for it in writing.
- 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 10 open housing violations: 3 immediately hazardous, 4 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 fire and safety equipment (7), lead paint (5) and doors and windows (2).
On 12 Dec 2025. 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.
In the 2025–26 heat season the city received heat or hot-water complaints on 5 days, and HPD issued 1 heat violation.
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.
BBL 4035240063 · Block 3524, Lot 63 · Building class C2