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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 ...

Creepy Teacher Busted for Touching Teen in the Bronx


By Dan Gesslein 

Bronx Voice 

November 3, 2022


BRONX - A teacher at a Bronx junior high school was busted by cops for allegedly touching, ogling at and making inappropriate remarks to a 13-year-old female student.


Police arrested 38-year-old Paul Anthony Tyrell for allegedly touching and sexually harassing a 13-year-old student at J.H.S. 123 in Soundview.


Tyrell is accused of lifting up the girl’s sweater and staring at her. In another incident the teacher allegedly grabbed the teen’s buttocks.




In yet another incident Tyrell is accused of telling the student in Spanish, “you have a big ass.”





Investigators said the incidents took place between the beginning of October until last week.





Tyrell was charged with forcible touching, sexual abuse and acting in a manner injurious to a child under 17.


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