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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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New Photo in Scooter Shooter, Slasher in Bronx

Police are looking for this man in connection with a shooting, slashing from a scooter in the Bronx.


By Dan Gesslein 

Bronx Voice 

October 11, 2022 


BRONX - Police released a photo of a second suspect in the brutal scooter shooting/slashing in the Bronx in which a moped crew shot a man and slashed his face.




At around 7:30 am on September 28, a 43-year-old man was walking in the vicinity Tiebout Avenue and East 182nd Street when two men on a scooter rode up next to him. One of the riders pulled out a gun and shot the man in the back. 






The gunman then dismounted the scooter pulled out a sharp object and slashed the victim about the face. 



The attacker then hopped back on the scooter and drove off. 


The attacker then hopped back on the scooter and drove off. 



The victim was transported to St. Barnabas Hospital where he is listed in stable condition. 



The shooting/slashing took place around the corner from the 46th Precinct.  


No word yet on a possible motive for the vicious attack.



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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