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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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Another Subway Push In Bronx

Subway Psycho Pushes Man onto Tracks as Train Bears Down

Police are looking for this man in connection with an unprovoked attack on a Number 6 subway platform. 


By Dan Gesslein 

Bronx Voice 

October 16, 2022


BRONX - A Bronx man was shoved off a subway platform and onto the tracks below in yet another unprovoked attack in the subway.





At around. 11:50 am on October 15, a man was on the subway platform of the northbound Number 6 train at the 149th Street and Southern Boulevard station.


A man went up to the straphanger and pushed him off the platform and to the tracks below as the train pulled into the station. 


The attacker fled the station.




The train just missed the victim. Fellow straphangers helped the victim climb back onto the platform.


The victim suffered only minor injuries and was taken to Jacobi Medical Center.

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The NYPD released surveillance video of the suspect who is described as a male with a medium complexion, large black hair, facial hair and a medium build. He was last seen wearing a black winter jacket, camouflage pants and camouflage sandals.


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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