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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 ...

Courthouse Killer Nabbed, Cops Say

Shooting Took Place Across from Courthouse, Near Yankee Stadium

Miguel Rodriguez, 27, was found shot to death inside Joyce Kilmer Park across from the Bronx Supreme Courthouse in May 2022.



By Dan Gesslein

Bronx Voice

January 19, 2023


BRONX - Police have arrested a suspect in the shooting death of a man across the street from the Bronx Courthouse, a few blocks away from Yankee Stadium.


Police arrested 40-year-old Leonard Thalease of Crotona and charged him with murder, manslaughter and criminal posession of a weapon. Thalease was charged in the murder of 27-year-old Miguel Rodriguez back in May inside Joyce Kilmer Park. 


At around 2 am on May 14, 2022, police responding to a call of shots fired arrived at Joyce Kilmer Park, across the street from the Bronx Supreme Court building. Cops found Rodriguez lying in the park with a gunshot wound to the head. He was pronounced deceased at Lincoln Hospital. 


Cops said Thalease shot Rodriguez during an argument in the park.

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