Skip to main content

Featured

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 ...
Post a Comment
Read more
Labels

Friends Fear Missing Woman May be Abused

$500 Reward Offered

A missing persons flyer at Wester Avenue and East 202 Street in Norwood seeks information on the whereabouts of Hollyann Smith, 24, who reportedly disappeared from Webster Avenue in a photo taken on Sunday, October 30, 2022.


By David Greene

Bronx Voice

November 9, 2022

 

BRONX - Frantic family members and friends of a missing Connecticut woman are offering a $500 reward for the safe return of Hollyann Smith, 24, who was last heard from on October 25, somewhere along Webster Avenue.

 

Smith, who is 5 foot 2 and 90-pounds, was last seen wearing a black t-shirt, ripped blue jeans and Nike's Air Force sneakers. According to flyers posted along Webster Avenue in Norwood and along East Fordham Road, Smith has tattoos on her arms and collar bone.

 

According to "Angelica," a Connecticut resident and close friend of Smith's who made the fliers herself, told Norwood News on October 30, "I'm going back over there tonight. I finally just got proof that she's in danger, but they (the police) weren't able to make an NYPD report until I had proof."

 

Angelica recalled, "I definitely know she was in the Bronx, around Webster Avenue and I tried Fordham because a lot of people told me that Fordham is where people (who) get trafficked are."


A missing persons flyer at Wester Avenue and East 202 Street in Norwood seeks information on the whereabouts of Hollyann Smith, 24, who reportedly disappeared from Webster Avenue in a photo taken on Sunday, October 30, 2022.--Photo by David Greene



Asked why she thought her friend may be in danger, Angelica replied, "She was in an abusive relationship... and I know she told me she was getting beat up and she wanted me to come get her," adding that Smith never gave her the exact address on Webster Avenue.




 

Anyone with any information on Smith's whereabouts are asked to call Angelica at (203) 343-3405, or the NYPD.





Meanwhile, police in Manhattan were looking for Alexandria Labour, 15, described as a Hispanic female. Labour is 5 foot 4 and weighs 96 pounds. Anyone with any information is asked to call the NYPD Missing Persons Squad at (212) 694-7781 or the Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1 (800) 577-TIPS.   

Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular Posts