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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 ...

Teen’s Death Ruled a Homicide in the Bronx



By Dan Gesslein 

Bronx Voice 

January 27, 2023


BRONX - A Bronx teenager’s death has been ruled a homicide when he was found dead in his Westchester Square apartment. No charges have been filed so far.


The  Medical Examiner’s office ruled that 15-year-old Corde Scott’s death was a homicide. The ME said the the compression of the teen’s death caused “homicidal asphyxia.”


At around 4:18 om on January 23, 15-year-old Corde Scott was taken from his apartment on Dorris Street and rushed to Jacobi Medical Center- but it was too late. The teen was pronounced dead at the hospital. 


Scott’s 28-year-old stepfather was questioned by police. Cops had initially believed the stepfather was acting in self defense during an argument.


The NY Post is reporting that the stepdad had just been released in December after serving three years in prison for an assault.

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