61-23 Myrtle Avenue

Queens, NY

BBL 4-03638-0065BIN 4088373Plain-text version

Concern level1 of 4

Low

01No open hazardous violations found

How this is set: open hazardous violations measured against the building's size, then raised by strong distress signals — HPD's enforcement program, court harassment findings, recent evictions, unpaid OATH/ECB fines, open housing-court cases, and a sold tax lien. Neighborhood noise and crime are not part of it. It describes the public record, not the condition of any one apartment, and a quiet record is not proof of a good building.

Rent regulation

Not on the rent-stabilized list

Not found in the DOF tax-bill records nor the 2024 DHCR registered building list. Absence isn't proof a unit is unregulated — buildings can be missing or newly deregulated.

No public data says which specific apartment is stabilized.

Registration counts apply to the building, not to unit numbers. To confirm your own apartment, request your rent history from New York State Homes and Community Renewal — it is free and takes a few weeks.

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The building

1931

Built

Floors

Residential units

Mixed residential / commercial

Type

This building and the landlord's others

This building5 others linked to the same owner

HPD housing-maintenance violations

Open now

On record

Open Class C

Open Class B

Open Class A

Class C is immediately hazardous, Class B is hazardous, Class A is non-hazardous. A violation stays open until HPD certifies the repair, so some open items may already be fixed.

No open HPD violations.

HPD housing-maintenance violations

311 complaints from tenants

No 311 housing complaints on record for this building.

311 complaints from tenants

Neighborhood noise

About averagevs. NYC apartment blocks

270

Noise reports · last 12 mo

≈ per month

% from neighbors

Residential176

Street/Sidewalk34

Commercial31

Unspecified26

Vehicle3

311 noise complaints within about 1,000 ft (a few blocks) in the last year. Most reports here are about noise from inside buildings — neighbors, not the street. This counts how often people call 311, which tracks how densely populated and busy an area is as much as how loud it is — it is not a sound measurement.

Neighborhood noise

Neighborhood crime

Lower than averagevs. NYC apartment blocks

135

NYPD reports · last 12 mo

≈ per month

Felony48

Misdemeanor65

Violation22

NYPD complaints reported within about 1,000 ft (a few blocks) in the last year, by severity. This reflects what gets reported and where police are active as much as actual safety, and busier, denser, higher-foot-traffic blocks log more. Locations are approximate — the NYPD shifts each report to the nearest corner for privacy — so read this as rough context, not a safety score.

Neighborhood crime

Bedbug history

No bedbugs reported

The owner filed 7 annual bedbug reports and reported no infested units. Filing with zero infestations is the compliant, reassuring case.

DOB building violations

Active

On record

Active, last 3 yrs

Violations issued by the Department of Buildings that the owner must correct. Most don't carry a fine on their own; summonses that go to a hearing and can be fined are listed separately under OATH/ECB.

No active DOB violations.

DOB building violations

OATH/ECB violations and fines

Balance due (active)

Active violations

Lost by default

These are separate from DOB violations. They are summonses written by DOB inspectors and decided at a hearing before OATH, the city's administrative court (formerly the Environmental Control Board), and they can carry a fine. "Lost by default" means the owner never appeared at the hearing. An unpaid balance is a stronger "ignoring the city" signal than a raw violation count.

OATH/ECB violations and fines

Evictions

No marshal-executed evictions on record for this building. Eviction cases filed in court but not carried out aren't included.

Evictions

Housing court: repair & harassment cases

No HPD housing-court cases on record for this building.

These are cases HPD is a party to, mostly tenants suing to force repairs or stop harassment. Eviction cases landlords file against tenants are not in the city's open data, so they don't appear here; the Evictions section shows only evictions a marshal carried out.

Housing court

Landlord and related buildings

Registered owner

HOMEKEY ENTERPRISE, INC.

Head officer

JOHN RUCIGAY

Managing agent

EVAN RUCIGAY

5 other buildings share this owner's registration contacts. Shared contacts suggest common control, but they are not proof of ownership.

1654 DE KALB AVENUEBROOKLYN 1660 PUTNAM AVENUEQUEENS 18-83 TROUTMAN STREETQUEENS 59-04 MYRTLE AVENUEQUEENS 60 COVERT STREETBROOKLYN

Ownership & money

Recorded sales

Mortgages / refinances

Last recorded sale1998-02-24 · no recorded price

Most recent mortgage2016-10-25 · $450,000

Mortgage2016-10-25$450,000

borrower HOMEKEY ENTERPRISE INC. · lender MASPETH FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION

Mortgage1998-03-16$180,000

borrower HOMEKEY ENTERPRISE,INC · lender APPEL, ERIC, MEYEROWITZ, GILNBERT, APPEL, KARL

Sale1998-02-24no recorded price

APPEL, KARL, MEYEROWITZ, GILBERT, APPEL, ERIC → HOMEKEY ENTERPRISE,INC

Sale1994-05-19no recorded price

APPEL, HENRY (EX/OF) → APPEL, ERIC, APPEL, KARL

Mortgage1984-03-22$100,000

borrower MEYEROWITZ, GILBERT, APPEL, HENRY E. · lender MASPETH FED S&L ASSN

From ACRIS recorded documents. Amounts are often $0 or nominal for transfers between related parties, and LLCs can obscure who is really involved — treat this as public-record context, not a valuation.

Ownership & money

City debt & tax-lien sale

Not on the city's tax-lien sale list (2019–2025). The owner has not fallen far enough behind on property tax or water charges to be flagged for a lien sale.