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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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Man Shot Near Big Pun Memorial in Bronx Murder Mystery

Cops are investigating how a man fatally shot near the Big Pun Memorial ended up miles away.


By Dan Gesslein 

Bronx Voice 

February 1, 2023 


BRONX - Cops are trying to find out how a Bronx man shot near the Big Pun Memorial in Longwood ended up in a car parked miles away in Morrisania.


At around 2:21 pm on January 30, cops found the body of a 26-year-old man sitting in the passenger seat of a Honda CRV parked in front of 1180 Union Avenue in Morrisania. The victim was shot in the abdomen. 


EMS pronounced the victim dead at the scene. 


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An investigation revealed that the victim had actually been shot on the corner of East 163 Street and Reverend James Polite Avenue, across the street from the Pig Pun Memorial in Longwood. The victim’s name has not been released pending family notification. 


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: E 163rd St & Rev James A Polite Ave, The Bronx, NY 10459, USA

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