Small Ridgewood rental with open housing-code violations and an active paper trail for basic maintenance.
A four-unit Ridgewood walk-up that was held by the Bosika family for over two decades before transferring to AB & Sons, LLC in September 2021. The operational record carries ten open violations, including an unresolved Class C item from November 2024. Three things to know:
Ten open violations remain on the building's official record, including one Class C. Ten open housing-code citations are on file, including an immediately hazardous Class C violation from November 2024 for failing to post proper notice of who holds the heating-system keys. The rest are lower-level Class A items, largely covering missing common-area notices and overdue annual bedbug filings.
Recent tenant calls concentrate in heavy seasonal bursts across multiple apartments. Tenants logged multi-category complaint bursts in March and June 2026 covering plumbing fixtures, appliances, electrical outlets, and flooring. While the calls were marked closed, the concentrated timing suggests deferred maintenance inside individual units that required multiple follow-ups.
Street parking disputes and residential noise dominate the surrounding three blocks. 178 illegal-parking complaints were filed within three blocks over the last year, mostly driven by 47 blocked-hydrant calls and 34 blocked-crosswalk reports. Another 86 residential noise calls hit the immediate surrounding blocks in the same window, primarily for loud music and late-night parties.
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687 Woodward Avenue is a 4-unit building in Queens, New York City (BBL 4034780002). This building is associated with Porretto, Maria R. Brix tracks 10 open HPD violations for this property, along with inspection history, DOB filings, tenant complaints, and rent stabilization status.
Built in 1930, this walk-up apartment building sits in Queens and is tracked by Brix using public NYC records from HPD, DOB, ACRIS, and 311.
Tenants have filed 23 HPD complaints about this building over the last five years, most often about unsanitary condition.
What tenants have called the city about here over the last five years:
The most recent complaint on this building was filed June 29, 2026.
Conditions cited on open violations at this address:
The building last changed hands on September 16, 2021, according to recorded deeds.
Brix score: 2/100. View the Building Report on Brix.
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