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Ridgewood

Ridgewood is in western Queens on the Brooklyn border, next to Bushwick and East Williamsburg, with Maspeth to the north and Glendale to the southeast. Almost all of it was built in the early 1900s, block by block. There are two- and three-story rowhouses and six-family tenements, many in the yellow face brick typical of the area and many designed by the local firm Louis Berger & Co. More than 90% of homes date from before 1940. Walk-up apartment buildings hold about three in five homes. Ten National Register historic districts were listed here in 1983. The M train stops at Seneca Ave, Forest Ave, Fresh Pond Rd and Middle Village–Metropolitan Ave, and the L stops at Halsey St on the border.

Ridgewood has 28,920 open HPD housing violations, 5,473 of them Class C (immediately hazardous). Inspectors issued 6,531 new violations here in the last 12 months. That's the 1st most open violations of 60 neighborhoods in Queens.

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Open HPD violations
28,920
5,473 Class C
New violations, last 12 months
6,531
1,604 Class C · 6th in Queens
How serious are the open violations?
Open HPD violations by class
Class C5,473 · 19%Class B12,075 · 42%Class A11,372 · 39%Class A here includes a small number of Class I orders.

Source: NYC HPD Housing Maintenance Code Violations · data as of Oct 15, 2026

New violations in the last 12 months
By class
  • Class C · immediately hazardous1,604
  • Class B · hazardous1,603
  • Class A · non-hazardous2,249

Source: NYC HPD Housing Maintenance Code Violations · data as of Oct 15, 2026

Good to know

  • M train: Seneca Av, Forest Av, Fresh Pond Rd, Middle Village–Metropolitan Av
  • L train at Halsey St and Myrtle–Wyckoff Avs on the Brooklyn border
  • About 91% of homes date from before 1940 (PLUTO)
  • Ten National Register historic districts were listed in 1983
  • Grover Cleveland Playground and Mafera Park are the largest parks

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Check the buildingLook up any address for violations, complaints and owner.Read the violation classesWhat A, B and C mean and how fast owners must fix them.Work out your budgetThe 40× income rule most NYC landlords use.

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Fact-checked October 12, 2026

Location checked against the 2020 NTA boundaries (NYC Open Data 9nt8-h7nd). Housing mix = share of residential units by PLUTO building class for the 2020 census tracts in this NTA (tract-to-NTA equivalency hm78-6dwm); PLUTO year-built values for older buildings are often estimates. Stations were checked against the NTA polygon. Myrtle–Wyckoff Avs sits on the boundary line, so it is described as on the border. Park sizes come from NYC Parks Properties (Mafera 5.4 ac, Grover Cleveland 5.1 ac). The Ridgewood Reservoir falls in the Highland Park NTA and is not claimed here. Re-checked 2026-10-12: neighbors, yellow face brick, Louis Berger & Co. and the 10 National Register districts listed in 1983 confirmed in the Wikipedia article. M stations and Halsey St (L) inside the polygon. PLUTO recount: 91% pre-1940, walk-ups 62%. Mafera 5.4 ac and Grover Cleveland 5.1 ac are the largest parks inside.

Sources

  1. Ridgewood, Queens (Wikipedia) · Wikipedia (accessed October 12, 2026)
  2. Primary Land Use Tax Lot Output (PLUTO), release 26v2 · NYC Department of City Planning (accessed October 12, 2026)
  3. MTA Subway Stations · Metropolitan Transportation Authority (accessed October 12, 2026)

General information, not legal, tax or financial advice. Rules change; confirm with the agency or a professional before you act.

“Open” counts every HPD violation not yet recorded as corrected, including old ones owners never certified, so totals can exceed the number of apartments. Statistics: NYC Open Data (HPD violations, 311 service requests, DCP PLUTO) and rent-stabilized counts from DOF tax bills (via JustFix), updated Oct 15, 2026. Heat season runs October 1 to May 31; season-to-date counts compare the same dates.