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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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Moped Mugging Near Yankee Stadium 

A Bronx man was robbed at gunpoint by men on mopeds near Yankee Stadium.

By Dan Gesslein

Bronx Voice 

September 16, 2022


BRONX - A group of moped riding muggers robbed a Bronx man near Yankee Stadium in broad daylight.


At around 10 am on September 11, a 29-year-old man was walking down the block from Yankee Stadium on Jerome, when he was approached by two mopeds. One moped blocked his path as the driver pointed a gun on home. The passenger dismounted and took the victim’s property.


The men on there second moped acted as a lookout.


The robber took the victim’s iPhone, bracelet and ring.


The thieves drove off in the direction of Macombs Dam Bridge.


Anyone with information in regard to this incident is asked to 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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