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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 ...

VIDEO - Vandal Slashes Cop Car’s Tires

Police released surveillance video of what appears to be a man slashing car tires in the Bronx. Cops say  the car vandalized was an unmarked police car. 


By Dan Gesslein

Bronx Voice 

October 20, 2022


BRONX - Police are looking for a vandal who punctured the tires to a patrol car in the Bronx.




The NYPD released surveillance video which appears to show a man walk up to an unmarked police car and puncture three tires.




At around noon on October 19, surveillance video captured a man walking up to an unmarked police car parked on the corner of Kelly Street and Westchester Avenue. With an unknown object in his hand the man punctures three of the four tires.




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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