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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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Wake Up for Subway Mugging in the Bronx

The NYPD is searching for this man in connection with a mugging in a Bronx subway train.

By Dan Gesslein 

Bronx Voice 

October 1, 2022 


BRONX - A Bronx straphanger woke up to a mugging on a subway train in Wakefield. 





At around 4:48 am on September 25, a 46-year-old man was sleeping on a northbound Number 2 train. Cops say at the East 241st Street - Wakefield Station, a man walked over to the straphanger and woke him up.

 



The startled victim began to walk away when the man who woke him up began punching him. The attacker removed the straphanger’s wallet and fled the train at the station. 




Cops say the victim suffered minor cuts to his forehead and the right side of his face.  


The NYPD released surveillance video of the suspect on the train platform. 





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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