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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 ...

Beaten for Cell Phone in Parkchester


By Dan Gesslein

Bronx Voice

January 4, 2022


BRONX - A flaming red-haired mugger beat a retiree for his cell phone as he pushed his way into the man’s Parkchester apartment, police said. 


At around 8 am on December 11, a 64-year-old man was entering his apartment inside his building on Hawthorne Drive and Metropolitan Avenue. As he opened the door, a man ran up behind him and pushed him inside the apartment. The attacker repeatedly punched him in the face and then removed his LG cell phone. 




Police released surveillance video of the suspect from inside the elevator as the man fled the building. The bright-red haired suspect is seen entering the elevator with a cell phone in hand. 




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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