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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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Taco Bell Thief had Key

Ran off with Cash Register Drawers from Taco Joint



By Dan Gesslein

Bronx Voice

February 23, 2023


BRONX - Cops are trying to find a man who used a key to break into a Bronx Taco Bell and make off with the contents and the drawers of the cash registers. 




At around 6 am on January 11, a man used a key to enter a locked Taco Bell restaurant in the Hub on East 149th Street. The man removed the drawers from the cash registers and placed them into a garbage bag. 




Cops say the thief made off with $2,000 in cash.  


Police released surveillance video of the suspect. The suspect was last seen wearing a black winter coat with hood, a ski mask and a multi-colored long scarf.



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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