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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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Cops Looking for Car in Bronx Shooting



By Dan Gesslein

Bronx Voice

November 28, 2022


BRONX - Police released the license plate number and a photo of the car suspected to be used in a fatal shooting in Wakefield. 


At around 8:41 pm on November 24, police responded to a report of shots fired in the vicinity of Bronxwood Avenue and East 233rd Street. Cops found 23-year-old Elijah Dukuray lying on the ground with a gunshot wound to the neck. He was later pronounced dead at Jacobi Medical Center. 


Police released surveillance video of a car driving away from the crime scene. The license plate is K14NUZ. 





Anyone with information in regard to this incident is asked to 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 are strictly confidential. 

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