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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 ...
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Hate Crime Attack Near Parkchester Station


By Dan Gesslein 

Bronx Voice

January 15, 2023


BRONX - A woman was viciously assaulted in a hate crime at a grocery store across from Parkchester. The suspect was last seen wearing plastic bags on his feet.


At around 11:30 am on January 13, a 25-year-old woman was inside the grocery store at 120 Hugh Grant Circle. A stranger walked up to her, spat an anti-gay remark at her and then smashed her in the mouth with a closed fist. The woman fell to the floor.


The attacker fled on foot. An investigation revealed that the suspect walked across the street and hopped on a northbound Number 6 train.


The NYPD Hate Crime task force is investigating.


The victim was treated for minor injuries by EMS at the scene.


Police released surveillance video from inside the grocery store. The suspect is a man with a dark complexion who is six feet tall and is in his 30s. He was last seen wearing a white hooded sweatshirt with plastic bags around his feet, dark color pants wearing a mask.


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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Location: 120 Hugh J. Grant Cir, The Bronx, NY 10472, USA

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