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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 ...

Elderly Man Raking Leaves Fatally Struck by Car


By Dan Gesslein 

Bronx Voice 

November 16, 2022


BRONX - An elderly man was stuck and killed by a car while he was raking leaves in the middle of an intersection in Morris Park.


Police say 91-year-old Simone Canepa was struck and killed at the intersection of Rhinelander Avenue and Radcliff Avenue.


A preliminary investigation revealed that Canepa was standing in the intersection raking leaves at around 5:30 pm on November 11.





A 2006 Hyundai Elantra was traveling westbound on Rhinelander Avenue when it struck Canepa. 




The victim was rushed by EMS to nearby Jacobi Medical Center with trauma to the head. Canepa succumbed to his injuries and died the next day.


The 59-year-old female driver remained at the scene. 


The case is being investigated further by the NYPD's Highway Collision Investigation Squad.

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