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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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Arrest in Fatal Stabbing Outside Parkchester

Possible Gang Ties 



By Dan Gesslein 

Bronx Voice 

September 22, 2022 


BRONX - Police made an arrest in the May murder of Felix Figueroa, a member of the Taylor Avenue crew who was repeatedly stabbed during a brawl in the Bronx. 


The NYPD arrested 19-year-old Jefter Dominguez and charged him with attempted murder and reckless endangerment. 


Police said the investigation is ongoing and more arrests are possible. 


At around 12:30 am on May 27, police responded to reports of a brawl involving multiple people arrived at 1801 Archer Street. On the sidewalk they found 28-year-old Figueroa, unresponsive with multiple stab wounds to the torso. The victim was rushed to Jacobi Medical Center where he was pronounced dead. 


Dominguez lives on Guion Place a few blocks away from the murder. 


According to published reports Figueroa was a member of the Taylor Avenue Crew. It is unclear if the fatal stabbing was gang related.


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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