18-31 Stephen Street, Ridgewood, NY 11385
Built 1931 · 3-story walk-up · 6 apartments
4 immediately hazardous violations open. 12 open in all. On the state's rent-stabilization list for 2024.
- Tenant reviews
- None yetLived here? Reviews open soon.
- Open violations
- 124 · 7 · 1
- 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 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026 so far | 0 | 0 |
Plus 12 violations from 1985 to 2021. Counted when issued, whether open or fixed since. Paperwork left out.
See every violation- Found most often since 2022
- Fire and safety equipment 1
- Open per apartment
- 2 (12 open across 6 apartments)
- Inspector last found a problem
- 30 Jul 2024 (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
Tenant-reportedNo tenant reviews yet. Lived here? Be the first.
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.
Not open yet. Reviews open when this neighbourhood does.
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 violationImmediately hazardous4 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.
Correct failure to provide to the department within 45 days of demand all records required to be maintained by owner
Issued 6 May 2005Notice sent out 27 Jun 2005§ 27-2056.7
Provide hot water at all hot water fixtures kitchen & bathroom 2 sty rear an apartment.
Issued 7 Jan 1987Notice sent out 23 Jun 2008Heat and hot water§ D26-17.07
Provide ready access to building's heating system boiler room door locked cellar.
Issued 7 Jan 1987Notice sent out 23 Jun 2008Heat and hot water§ D26-17.10
Post notice, in form approved by the department, stating the name and location of the person designated by the owner to have key to building's heating system 1 sty vestibule pub hall near mailboxes.
Issued 7 Jan 1987Notice sent out 23 Jun 2008Heat and hot water§ D26-17.10
Hazardous7 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 200 watts required lights not on
Issued 29 May 2002Not complied with 1 Jul 2002Electrical§ 27-2040
Arrange and make self-closing the doors bulkhead pub hall stairs.
Issued 15 Jan 1989Notice sent out 23 Jun 2008Fire and safety equipment§ D26-10.01 +1
Provide adequate light of not less than 60 watts incandescent or equivalent illumination all stys pub hall night inspection.
Issued 15 Jan 1989Notice sent out 23 Jun 2008Electrical§ D26-19.05
Provide adequate light of not less than 60 watts incandescent or equivalent illumination pub halls 1 2 & 3 stys.
Issued 23 Jun 1988Notice sent out 23 Jun 2008Electrical§ 27-2039
Provide an approved and operational smoke detecting device, installed in accordance with department of buildings rules and regulations missing 2 sty north rear an apartment ms martinelli., section '' ''
Issued 16 Mar 1987Notice sent out 23 Jun 2008Fire and safety equipment§ D26-20.08 +1
Provide an approved and operational smoke detecting device, installed in accordance with department of buildings rules and regulations defective 3 sty an apartment., section '' ''
Issued 12 Dec 1986Notice sent out 23 Jun 2008Fire and safety equipment§ D26-20.08 +1
Repair or replace the smoke detector 2 sty an apartment defective ms martin., section '' ''
Issued 10 Dec 1985Notice sent out 23 Jun 2008Fire and safety equipment§ D26-20.08
Non-hazardous1 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.
Provide a peep hole in entrance door of the dwelling unit so located so as to permit a person inside the dwelling to view any person outside entrance door all apartments all stys.
Issued 15 Jan 1989Notice sent out 23 Jun 2008Doors and windows§ D26-20.01
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.
×4File 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.
4 issued 29 Mar 2023 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
1 closed violation, plus 5 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.
Remove device preventing door from being self-closing kick down door stopper at building front entrance door, 1st story
Issued 30 Jul 2024Violation closed 31 Oct 2024Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2005 +1
24 violations on record in total, 18 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.
7 complaints in three years, 2 of them in the last twelve months.
- Walls and ceilings2 / 2
- Electrical0 / 1
- Heat and hot water0 / 1
- Leaks and plumbing0 / 1
- Noise0 / 1
- Pests0 / 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.
- 2022No infested units reported (2020 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 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.
Owner of record and managing agent
JUAN GUAMAN
Public records list JUAN GUAMAN as the owner of record and the registered managing agent for this address as of 20 Jun 2023. Source: HPD registration.
Owner of record
ELVA CAGUANA
Public records list ELVA CAGUANA as the owner of record for this address as of 20 Jun 2023. Source: HPD registration.
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What to ask at the viewing
18-31 Stephen Street, 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 4 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.
- The owner has filed a bedbug report for this building (most recently for the year ending 2022). 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 12 open housing violations: 4 immediately hazardous, 7 hazardous and 1 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 (1).
On 30 Jul 2024. 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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