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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 ...

Sex Fiends Sought by Cops in Bronx

Police are searching for this man in connection with the sexual assault of a woman at a Bronx construction site. 


By Dan Gesslein 

Bronx Voice

December 19, 2022


BRONX - Police are searching for two sex fiends in the borough in unrelated cases - a teen was groped by one man on a bus and a woman was sexually assaulted at a construction site by another.


Cops are looking for a man who sexually assaulted a woman at a construction site in Wakefield. At around 8 pm on December 10, a 57-year-old woman was attacked at 4519 White Plains Road. Cops say the attacker forced the woman to perform a sex act on him. He then fled the scene on foot. 




The suspect is described as a man with a light complexion and a heavy build. He was last seen wearing a black du-rag, a green camouflage jacket, gray sweatpants and black & white sneakers. 




In an unrelated incident, cops are looking for the man who groped a teenager on a city bus. At around 3:30 pm on December 12, a 14-year-old girl was on board a BX11 bus in Mount Eden. As the bus approached the intersection of Shakespeare Avenue and Edward L. Grant Highway a man grabbed her upper thigh over her clothes.  


Police are searching for this man in connection with the groping of a teenage girl on a Bronx bus.


At the Shakespeare Avenue the groper exited the bus and walked down the street.  



Cops say the photo they have is from a witness who snapped a photo of the man with their cellphone. 


The suspect is described as a light-skinned male who is about 50 years old. He is 5 foot 9 and weighs around 170 pounds with a medium build. He was last seen wearing a black jacket, a gray hooded sweatshirt, black pants, black sneakers and carrying a large black backpack.





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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