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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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Bronx Dad Stabbed to Death Outside Building

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By Dan Gesslein

Bronx Voice

March 2, 2023


BRONX - A Bronx father of four was found stabbed in the neck outside a building in Longwood. 




At around 11:30 am on March 1, police officers from the PSA#7 arrived to find a man suffering a stab wound to the neck. The victim was rushed Lincoln Hospital where he would later die as a result of his injuries. 




Police have identified the victim as 51-year-old Derrick Hamlin, a father of four who lived on East 156th Street. 




Police have not released a description of the killer at this time. 


Investigators said Hamlin had gotten into an arguement with his killer outside a building at the John Adams Houses. The attacker stabbed Hamlin one time in the neck with an unknown object before fleeing. 





Hamlin is being remembered by neighbors as a hardworking father who was trying to give his children a better life.  


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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