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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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Norwood Gunman Being Sought by NYPD

Fires Gun Running Through Street

The NYPD released surveillance video of a man running down a block in Norwood repeatedly firing a gun. 

By Dan Gesslein

Bronx Voice

September 22, 2022


BRONX - A Bronx man is lucky to be alive after being repeatedly shot outside a store in Norwood. 


The NYPD released surveillance video of a gunman running down East 204th Street while repeatedly firing. 


Cops say the mayhem broke out around 5:45 am on September 19 in front of a store at 365 East 204th Street. The video shows the 31-year-old victim running from away from a car parked in front of the store. Then the gunman gives chase firing as he runs along the sidewalk. 


The victim was struck repeatedly in the back, chest, ear and hand. 


The gunman is then seen on surveillance video running back to the grey sedan and driving away westbound on Bedford Avenue. 


Police are looking for this man in connection with a shooting in Norwood.



The victim was rushed to St. Barnabas Hospital where he is listed in stable condition. 


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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