Small Bed-Stuy rental with active roach citations, sewage backups, and local air-quality flags.
Ten-unit Bed-Stuy walk-up held by Bernard Dekalb LLC since December 2010. While total calls from the building itself are relatively low, active housing-code citations, sewage backups, and surrounding air-quality complaints point to specific indoor air and infrastructure friction. Three things to know:
Seven open violations are active, including immediately hazardous pest citations. Seven open violations remain on the building's file, including two class C immediately hazardous citations. In May 2026, inspectors cited an active roach infestation in apartment 4F alongside broken window sash balances, missing smoke and carbon monoxide detectors, and defective refrigerator gaskets. A separate class C roach citation in apartment 1F dates to July 2025.
A concentrated sewage backup pattern hit the building in May 2026. A cluster of sewer backup and unsanitary sewage complaints hit the building in mid-May 2026, triggering four separate calls over a ten-day span. While the city closed these tickets, repeated sewage calls in a ten-unit building point to waste line backups that warrant verification before signing a lease.
Surrounding air quality and food establishment signals suggest potential exhaust and odor bleed. Within three blocks of the building, 13 indoor air quality complaints and 5 food establishment calls were logged over the last year. These localized odor, vapor, and exhaust signals often point to commercial kitchen venting or riser bleed that travels through shared stacks into upper-floor apartments.
Quieter signals on this building and the blocks around it:
843 Dekalb Avenue is a 10-unit building in Brooklyn, New York City (BBL 3017770068). This building is associated with Bernard Dekalb LLC. Brix tracks 7 open HPD violations for this property, along with inspection history, DOB filings, tenant complaints, and rent stabilization status.
Built in 1931, this walk-up apartment building sits in Brooklyn and is tracked by Brix using public NYC records from HPD, DOB, ACRIS, and 311.
Tenants have filed 16 HPD complaints about this building over the last five years, most often about unsanitary condition.
What tenants have called the city about here over the last five years:
The most recent complaint on this building was filed May 22, 2026.
Conditions cited on open violations at this address:
The building last changed hands on December 8, 2010 for $550,000, according to recorded deeds.
Brix score: 7/100. View the Building Report on Brix.
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Unit 4 at 843 Dekalb Avenue has no open violations (4 past violations).
Unit 3L at 843 Dekalb Avenue has no open violations (20 past violations).
Unit 3R at 843 Dekalb Avenue has no open violations (11 past violations).
Unit 2B at 843 Dekalb Avenue has no open violations (4 past violations).
Unit 2L at 843 Dekalb Avenue has no open violations (39 past violations).
Unit 2R at 843 Dekalb Avenue has no open violations (5 past violations).
Unit 2 at 843 Dekalb Avenue has no open violations (4 past violations).
Unit 1 at 843 Dekalb Avenue has no open violations (3 past violations).
Unit 1-L at 843 Dekalb Avenue has no open violations (1 past violation).
Unit 1-R at 843 Dekalb Avenue has no open violations (18 past violations).
Unit B at 843 Dekalb Avenue has no open violations (2 past violations).
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