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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 ...

4 Teens Sought in Fatal Stabbing in Pelham Bay

The NYPD released photos of four men wanted in connection with a fatal stabbing in Pelham Bay.

VIDEO - Suspects Seen Boarding Bus 


By Dan Gesslein

Bronx Voice 

September 18, 2022


BRONX - Photos of four teenagers being sought for the brutal stabbing of a man outside a building at the Pelham Bay Station have been released. Cops say the baby-faced suspects repeatedly stabbed a man to death during an argument. 



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. 



The suspects range in age from 15 to 20 years of age. All were wearing black clothing. 





According to police 27-year—old Prince McMichael from Co-op City was repeatedly stabbed outside a building at of Bruckner Boulevard and Wilkinson Avenue. Cops say the victim had gotten into an arguement with the suspects who then fatally stabbed him. 


The location is one of several bus stops at the Pelham Bay Station.  


At around 9:46 pm, police were called to an assault in progress near the bus stop outside a building on the corner of Bruckner Boulevard and Wilkinson Avenue. 


Cops arrived to find a 27-year-old man with multiple stab wounds about the torso.


The victim was rushed to Jacobi Medical Center where he was pronounced dead.


An investigation revealed that three men involved in the stabbing fled on foot before cops arrived.


The victim’s name is being withheld pending family notification.


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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