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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 ...

Bronx Man Shot in Backyard

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By Dan Gesslein 

Bronx Voice 

January 19, 2023 


BRONX - A Bronx man was found shot to death in the backyard of his house and police are looking into the possibility this was a targeted shooting. 


At around 9 pm on January 18, officers from the 47th Precinct arrived at 4057 Pratt Avenue to a report of a man shot. Cops found 21-year-old Nicholas Lewis with a gunshot wound to the chest in the backyard of the house in the Eastchester section of the Bronx.


Lewis was taken to Jacobi Medical Center where he was pronounced dead. 


Lewis was found near the basement steps in the backyard. Police are looking into whether the shooter followed Lewis to his house and then shot him in the backyard. 


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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