Walls Rising at 836 Dekalb Avenue

A five-story, 24-unit apartment building is going up on a former parking lot at the corner of Dekalb and Throop in Bed Stuy. This corner has been empty for a long time. Tax photos show it was a rubble-strewn lot in the 1970s. The property at 836 Dekalb changed hands in June 2012 for $900,000, having previously sold in 2010 for $100,000 — quite an appreciation in only two years! An application for a new building was approved in August.