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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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Senior on Subway Punched in Face in Bronx

AGAIN - Unprovoked Subway Attack


Police are looking for this man in connection with an unprovoked attack on a senior in the subway in the Bronx.


By Dan Gesslein 

Bronx Voice 

September 20, 2022


BRONX - An elderly woman was smashed in the face repeatedly by a mugger as she was leaving a subway car in the Bronx.


At around 7:45 pm on September 16, a 66-year-old woman was exiting a subway car at the Fordham Road Station. Suddenly a man blocked her exit and punched her in the face repeatedly.


Cops say the attack was unprovoked.


As the woman fell to the ground, her attacker grabbed her purse and fled the station.


The victim was taken to St. Barnabas Hospital where she was treated. She is listed in serious but 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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