1652 Norman Street, Queens, NY 11385

The three-story, five-unit residential tenement building at 1652 Norman Street in Ridgewood, owned by Jasi Navarro, was constructed in 1931 and has experienced several significant maintenance and safety issues in recent years. Most notably, in May 2024, the building had a reported slow water leak that required investigation by the Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD), though inspectors were unable to gain access. A comprehensive inspection on June 21, 2024, revealed multiple open violations, including safety concerns such as non-self-closing doors at the building vestibule, rust on the fire escape requiring painting, and various posting requirements not being met.

These included the need to post carbon monoxide detector requirements, gas leak procedures, building registration information, and notices about smoke detector requirements, among others. The building also requires proper maintenance of its self-closing doors, with violations categorized as both Class A (less severe) and Class C (more severe). Looking at the building's history, there have been regular rodent inspections conducted in 2011, 2012, and 2017, all of which passed, indicating no rodent issues during those periods.

The building had a clean bedbug report for the period from November 2021 to October 2022, with no units reported as infested or re-infested. A Department of Buildings complaint from April 2022 was investigated and found to warrant no violations. While many of the current violations relate to safety and compliance requirements that should be addressed, the building's historical records show no pattern of persistent pest issues or other serious problems, with the most recent concerns focusing primarily on administrative and safety notice compliance rather than structural or environmental issues.