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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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Gunman Opens Fire Blocks Away from Bronx Zoo



By Dan Gesslein 

Bronx Voice 

August 31, 2023 


BRONX - A gunman opened fire on the street two blocks away from the Bronx Zoo, cops said. 




Police released surveillance video of the suspects in connection with the shooting.  At around 3 pm on August 28, an unknown male pulled out a gun and fired off numerous rounds towards a group of people in front of 997 East 179 Street. 




After the shooting the gunman and three other people were seen walking  away westbound on East 179th Street. 



No one was injured in the shooting. 



The shooting took place in front of the Lambert Houses a mere two blocks away from the Bronx Zoo. 


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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