495 DeKalb Avenue, ordered vacated in 1989, is reoccupied. Its Bed-Stuy neighborhood is seeing some signs of gentrification.
A look at three buildings that the city once ordered vacated for safety reasons reveals the changing—and very different—fortunes of three Brooklyn neighborhoods.
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