566 Seneca Avenue, Queens, NY 11385

The three-story, 4-unit New Law Tenement building at 566 Seneca Avenue in Ridgewood, owned by Howard Berke, has experienced several notable events and inspections since 2018, with a particular focus on health and maintenance issues. Most recently, in July 2025, the building's bedbug reporting documents show no current or past infestations, with consistent evidence of compliance over the past three years.

The property has maintained a clean record regarding rodent issues, with the most recent inspection in September 2024 showing a "Passed" result, following a history of rodent control measures implemented in mid-2018. The building has undergone two Housing Maintenance Code inspection periods specifically related to bedbug reporting requirements in 2021 and 2022, both of which generated violations that were later closed.

A notable cluster of complaints in 2018-2019 involved food establishment issues, including inspections of kitchen/food prep areas and two food poisoning complaints, with one of the 2019 complaints still marked as "In Progress." Additionally, there was a 2018 complaint about an inoperable bell/buzzer/intercom system that could not be inspected by HPD. The building's recent history, particularly from 2022-2025, suggests improved conditions with regards to both pest control and rodent management, though the unresolved food poisoning complaint from 2019 warrants attention as an outlier in an otherwise more stable recent pattern.