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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 ...

Man Shot at Westchester Square Bar

Police are searching for this man in connection with a shooting outside a Westchester Square bar.


By Dan Gesslein

Bronx Voice

December 16, 2022


BRONX - A man was shot outside a Westchester Square bar and police have released a photo hoping the public will help track down the gunman. 


At around 1:35 am on December 11, officers from the 45th Precinct responded to a report of gunshots on Westchester Square. When police arrived at the Plush 101 Lounge they found a 33-year-old man with a gunshot wound to the foot.  




An investigation revealed that the victim and an unknown man had gotten into a verbal dispute outside Plush at 53 Westchester Square. The arguement escalated and culminated with the man pulling out a gun and shooting the victim in the foot. 




The victim was taken to Jacobi Medical Center where he was treated and released. 




Police released surveillance video of the suspect. The suspect is described as a heavyset man with a beard and a dark complexion. He was last seen wearing a black winter coat, beige button-down shirt, blue jeans, brown and white sneakers.




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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