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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 ...

Gunmen Try to Steal Dog, Moped

Pooch Gets Away, Deliveryman Not So Much


By Dan Gesslein 

Bronx Voice 

October 13, 2022


BRONX - Cops are looking for a group of robbers who stole a delivery man’s moped and tried to steal another dog owner’s pooch during a string of robberies in the Bronx.




The NYPD released surveillance photos of one of the gunmen dressed all in black and the gray sedan used as a getaway car.









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At around 10:30 am on October 2, a 33-year-old man was walking his dog near a school. In the vicinity of East 229 Street and Carpenter Avenue two men dressed in black clothing and black ski masks approached him. One of the men pulled out a gun and demanded the dog.


The owner ran with the dog and fled to safety.


The robbers jumped into the gray sedan and took off. Cops say a third member of the crew drove the getaway car.




The next day at around 12:45 am the two robbers approached a food delivery man. The sedan pulled up in front of 3973 Bronxwood Avenue and two robbers got out and displayed handguns to the 32-year-old delivery man.


They demanded the man’s moped and proceeded to punch the victim in the face. They grabbed the victim’s cellphone. One of the men jumped on the moped while the other hopped back into the sedan. The gunman drove the stolen moped behind the sedan and drove  away.


During an investigation police discovered these two robberies are linked to an earlier armed robbery in front of a storefront church on Bronxwood Avenue.


At around 9:30 pm on September 22, two men in black and wearing ski masks exited a gray sedan and approached a 21-year-old man with guns drawn. They stole the victim’s bag and fled.


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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