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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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Food Delivery Worker Mugged for his Moped

Muggers Give Middle Finger to Victim

Cops are looking for a suspect who wore a shirt giving a middle finger to the world, in connection with a mugging of a food delivery worker in the Bronx.


By Dan Gesslein 

Bronx Voice 

October 21, 2022


BRONX - A trio of muggers give the middle finger to authorities as they beat and rob a hard working delivery worker of his electric moped during a mugging in the Bronx. Police released surveillance video of the three men they are looking for in connection with the attack - one of the suspect wore a shirt with a drawing of the middle finger.




Investigators said the mugging took place last month in the Soundview section of the Bronx. Cops are hoping residents recognize the suspects in the video and notify authorities.




At around 3:15 am on September 10, a 32-year-old food delivery worker drove his electric moped to an deliver order to 1095 Colgate Avenue across the street from a charter school.


  

Police are looking for these men in connection with the robbery of a food delivery worker.












In front of the location three men met the delivery worker. They began to beat the victim and then threw him off his moped.




The muggers took the delivery worker’s cell phone and his electric moped which is valued at $1,500.


The attackers fled down Colgate Avenue with the electric moped.



The victim did not request medical treatment.


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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