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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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Bronx Deliveryman Fatally Run Over, Driver Indicted

Driving with Suspended License AGAIN Led to Arrest

Victorio Hilario-Guzman was killed in a hit-and-run while delivering food during the pandemic. The alleged driver has been indicted two years later.


By Dan Gesslein 

Bronx Voice 

October 20, 2022


BRONX - The driver who allegedly ran over a Bronx food delivery worker and kept on driving was indicted in the fatal hit-and-run. Prosecutors say the defendant was driving with a suspended license when he struck and killed the food worker on his bicycle to a delivery. But it was not until two years later that he was caught for driving again with a suspended license. 




Yeramil Alvarez, 22, of Ridgefield New Jersey was indicted for leaving the scene of an accident, reckless driving and driving without a license. Bail was set at $25,000 cash, $75,000 bond.  



“The defendant accelerated and ran a red light, striking a food delivery worker on a bicycle. His alleged reckless actions ended the life of the victim, who was delivering food in the middle of the pandemic,” said Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark. "I send my deepest condolences to the victim’s family, who had to wait for two years for the defendant to be brought to justice.”




At around 7:47 pm on September 23, 2020, Victorio Hilario-Guzman, 37, was riding his bicycle making a food delivery on the Grand Concourse. At that same time prosecutors alleged Alvarez was stopped a the corner of East 180th Street and the Grand Concourse in a 2020 Black Hyundai Genesis. The car peeled out and accelerated heading towards the Concourse.  



Prosecutors say Alvarez blew through the red light and plowed into Hilario-Guzman who was crossing the intersection. The delivery worker was thrown from his bike and smashed his head on the curb. The indictment alleges the car just drove after crashing into the victim. 


Hilario-Guzman was rushed to St. Barnabas Hospital but after hours of treatment was pronounced dead. 


Prosecutors alleged Alvarez tried to cover up the crime by trying to get rid of the car. Alvarez, whose license was suspended at the time of the crime, allegedly drove the damaged Hyundai to a hotel in New Jersey. The car was a rental and prosecutors say he used a fake Pennsylvania license plate and used a phony call back number. The car was found totaled a month later in Michigan.  




The case went quiet for two years but then investigators caught a break last month. On September 19, Alvarez was busted in Manhattan for once again driving with a suspended license. 

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