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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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Fight Over Money Turns Fatal

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Cops Make Arrest in Bronx Shooting


By Dan Gesslein

Bronx Voice

May 25, 2023 


BRONX - Police made an arrest in the fatal shooting outside a Bronx lounge. Reports claim the gunman and the victim had been seen arguing over money.




Police arrested 36-year-old Damian Stapleton in the fatal shooting of Adama Camara. Stapleton was charged with murder, manslaughter and criminal possessions of a weapon: loaded weapon. 


At around 4:30 am on May 6, police responded to a call of a man shot in the vicinity of East 139 Street and Morris Avenue. There they found the 28-year-old Camara lying on the sidewalk with a gunshot wound to the head. 




EMS pronounced Camara dead at the scene. Published reports claim the suspect Stapleton and the victim had previously been seen arguing at the nearby Evasion Lounge. The two had allegedly been fighting over money. 

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