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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 ...

Pelham Bay Station Murder

Man Stabbed to Death Near Pelham Bay Park


By Dan Gesslein 

Bronx Voice 

September 17, 2022


BRONX - A Bronx man was stabbed to death outside a building at the Pelham Bay train 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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