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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 with Bike Chain in Bronx Near Yankee Stadium

Attacker Also had Saw Blade Near Yankee Tavern

Cops are searching for this man in connection for an attack on a man with a bike chain. -Photo courtesty of NYPD



By Dan Gesslein 

Bronx Voice 

February 24, 2023 


BRONX - An attacker who beat a man with a bike chain while also showing off a saw blade is being sought by cops for the assault near Yankee Stadium.



At around 10 am on February 13, two men began arguing across the street from a group of restaurants on Gerard Avenue. During the arguement a man in a yellow reflective vest displayed a saw blade and a bike chain. 




Then the man struck the 37-year-old victim in the back with the bike chain. 




The attacker fled on foot towards Yankee Stadium.

ROBBER SHOOTS 2 MEN INSIDE CAR IN THE BRONX



 


The victim refused medical attention at the scene. 




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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