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Landlord of Burned Bronx Building Sued to Stop Heat Monitoring

  Hundreds of tenants were displaced after a fire ripped through the top floor of 2910 Wallace Ave. in The Bronx, Jan. 14, 2025.  Credit:  Ben Fractenberg/THE CITY Ved Parkash had 10 properties put in a city housing agency program to track temperatures in chronically cold apartments. One just caught fire, leaving more than 250 homeless.  This article originally appeared in The City. By  Samantha Maldonado ,  Mia Hollie , and  Jonathan Custodio BRONX - The landlord whose Bronx building burned in a five-alarm fire Friday fought the city’s housing agency in court last year in an unsuccessful bid to exit a city program that requires monitoring for landlords with chronic heat complaints. Landlord Ved Parkash owns 2910 Wallace Avenue, a now burnt-out 98-unit apartment building in the Allerton neighborhood of The Bronx, just east of the New York Botanical Garden. That apartment building, along with nine others ...
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2 Arrested in Fatal Stabbing in Pelham Bay

Cops Arrest 2 Teens in for Stabbing at MTA Bus Stop at Pelham Bay Station

The NYPD had released the photos of four suspects in the brutal fatal stabbing of Prince McMichael at the Pelham Bay train station. Two of the suspects have been arrested but it is unclear at this time which photos are of the captured suspects and the ones still at large.


By Dan Gesslein

Bronx Voice

September 23, 2022


BRONX - Two down and two to go in the fatal stabbing of a Co-op City man at Pelham Bay Station. The NYPD announced the arrests of two teens for the murder and say the case is still ongoing.  


Cops arrested Angel Rivera, 19, and another unidentified 16-year-old male in the brutal stabbing across from Pelham Bay Park. Rivera was charged with murder, manslaughter, three counts of assault and two counts of gang assault. The unidentified minor was charged with manslaughter and two counts of gang assault. 


Cops say the investigation remains active and ongoing. Investigators would not comment further but the NYPD had released the photos of four young men in connection with the murder. 


Last week, police released the photos of four teens wanted in connection with the fatal stabbing of 27-year-old Prince McMichael from Co-op City who was repeatedly stabbed outside a building at of Bruckner Boulevard and Wilkinson Avenue. 


 


The NYPD had released the photos of four suspects in the brutal fatal stabbing of Prince McMichael at the Pelham Bay train station. Two of the suspects have been arrested but it is unclear at this time which photos are of the captured suspects and the ones still at large.



Cops say the victim had gotten into an arguement with the suspects in front of the building at the Pelham Bay station. The group then repeatedly stabbed him. McMichael was pronounced dead at Jacobi Medical Center. 


The NYPD released surveillance video of the four suspects taken from inside an MTA bus. It is unclear if the photos were taken before or after the fatal stabbing. 


Anyone with information should call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the CrimeStoppers website at https://crimestoppers.nypdonline.org/ or on Twitter @NYPDTips. 


All calls remain confidential.

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