Skip to main content

Featured

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 ...
Post a Comment
Read more
Labels

Subway Purse Snatcher Sought by Cops


Police are searching for this man in connection with a purse snatching on a subway train. Photo by NYPD 


By Dan Gesslein 

Bronx Voice 

March 4, 2023


BRONX - The NYPD is asking for the public’s help in trying to catch a purse snatcher on the subway.




A woman sitting on the northbound Number 2 train had her purse snatched from her lap. At around 3 am on February 26, a 28-year-old woman was sitting in the subway car with her purse in her lap.





When the train approached the 50th Street station a man ran by and snatched the purse from her lap and ran out of the subway car.

GAS STATION GUNMAN IMAGE CAUGHT ON VIDEO



BRONX - A shootout with gasoline and bullets took place at a Bronx service station, cops revealed in new information. The victim, who is fighting for his life, sprayed his attacker with gas when the gunman tried to rob him. 

Read More...




Police released surveillance video of the suspect taken from the train platform. The suspect was seen wearing a jacket over his black jogging suit with a Polo hoodie.


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.

Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular Posts