1917 Gates Avenue, Queens, NY 11385

The two-story, four-unit tenement building at 1917 Gates Avenue in Ridgewood, owned by John Imperatore and built in 1930, has had several notable maintenance events in recent years. Most significantly, in December 2020, the building experienced a heat and hot water outage that required intervention by the Department of Housing Preservation and Development, though the issue was reported to be resolved shortly thereafter.

The building has also faced compliance challenges regarding bedbug reporting requirements, with violations recorded in 2021, 2022, and 2023, though recent bedbug reports (2024 filings) show no evidence of infestation, with all counts for infested, eradicated, and re-infested units properly listed as zero. The property's maintenance history includes an initial rodent inspection in 2016 which passed, but a subsequent inspection in 2017 resulted in a failure for "Other Reasons," though the specific nature of this failure is not detailed in the records.

The building's most recent bedbug reporting period from November 2023 to October 2024 shows no infestation issues, continuing a pattern established in previous reporting periods (2019-2020, 2020-2021, and 2021-2022) where all infestation counts were consistently reported as zero. While there have been some technical violations and maintenance issues over the years, the recent lack of infestation and major service complaints suggests an improvement in the building's overall condition.