1716 Palmetto Street, Queens, NY 11385

The three-story, six-unit tenement building at 1716 Palmetto Street in Ridgewood, owned by Johann Troia, has exhibited a concerning pattern of rodent-related issues in recent years. Most notably, between 2023 and 2024, there were multiple rat sightings and conditions attracting rodents, with Health Department inspections showing violations in April 2023, though later inspections in June 2023 showed one instance where inspectors couldn't access the property.

Despite these challenges, the building appears to be currently maintaining compliance, as evidenced by passing inspections in August 2023, July 2023, and September 2024. The building's history shows relatively good maintenance of bedbug reporting requirements, with no reported infestations or eradications in the annual filings from 2022 through 2024.

While the property did receive violations for failing to file the annual bedbug report in 2021 and 2022, it has since corrected this issue and consistently reported zero infested units in subsequent years. Regular inspections from 2013 through 2024 reveal a generally positive maintenance record, with most inspections passing, though the recent rodent activity noted in May and April 2023 indicates some ongoing challenges in pest control that the management seems to be actively addressing, as shown by the subsequent successful inspections and the absence of new rodent complaints since mid-2023.