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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 ...

Cold Case Car Shooting NYC

NYPD Re-Releases Homicide Video of Gunman Firing into Parked Car

A gunman opened fire into a parked car on Beach Avenue in 2020. Cops are hoping new information can help them crack this cold case.


By Dan Gesslein 

Bronx Voice 

October 11, 2022 


BRONX - Investigators have re-released video from a fatal shooting in a two-year-old cold case in the Bronx in the hopes new tipsters will come forward. 





The NYPD released the video which shows a gunman firing point blank into a parked car on Beach Avenue in 2020. Anthony Martin, 27, was gunned down in the car.





At around 8 pm on August 15, 2020, Martin was sitting inside a sedan parked int front of 710 Beach Avenue in Soundview. Video from a nearby apartment building shows a man in a white T-shirt walking on the sidewalk. 


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When he gets to the car Martin was sitting in, the man pulls a gun out of his waistband and repeatedly fires into the car, striking Martin in the chest. The gunman then fled on foot.



Cops a say man jumped into the car and drove until he flagged down a police officer.  



Martin was rushed to Jacobi Medical Center but he was pronounced dead.





 

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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