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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 ...

Gun Totting Thief Sticks Up Bodega



By Dan Gesslein

Bronx Voice

December 21, 2022


BRONX - A Bronx bodega stickup was caught on video with the crook swinging around a handgun terrorizing the store employee across the street from the Bronx VA Hospital.


At around 7:30 pm on December 7, an 18-year-old employee was working in the grocery store at 117 West Kingsbridge Road. Suddenly a man dressed in black burst into the store and started waving a handgun around demanding cash. 





Cops say the perp made off with $2,500 cash and then ran out. No injuries were reported.




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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