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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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Gunman Fires into Crowded Laundromat Across from Bronx Zoo

Police are searching for this man in connection with a shooting inside a Bronx laundrymat.


By Dan Gesslein 

Bronx Voice 

December 3, 2022


BRONX - A gunman opened fire into a crowded laundromat to try shoot at a rival. The laundromat sits across the street from the Bronx Zoo.


Police released surveillance video of the suspect who sported a shirt with a teddy bear on the chest.

 

At around 8:25 pm on November 11, the suspect was walking past a Clean Rite Center laundromat located at 2241 Southern Boulevard.



After looking into the laundry from the sidewalk outside the store, he focused on a target. He pulled out a handgun and opened fire into the laundry shattering the front glass window.




The gunman then ran away.




Cops say the store was packed with customers and would not say who the gunman was firing at. No one was injured.


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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Location: 2241 Southern Blvd, The Bronx, NY 10460, USA

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