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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 ...

Gunmen Stickup Residents at Apt Buildings in Bronx, Manhattan

‘Mummy’ and Other Disguised Suspects Caught on Video

Police are looking for three armed robbers who stuck up residents in apartment buildings in the Bronx and Manhattan. -Photo by NYPD


By Dan Gesslein 

Bronx Voice 

August 1, 2023 


BRONX - A man whose disguise looked like “The Mummy” and two other bundled up suspects are being sought for a pair of armed robberies in the Bronx and Manhattan. 



Police released surveillance video of the bundled up suspects who are wanted for armed robberies in the two boroughs. One of the suspects wore white fabric stretched across his face and covered his head making it look similar to the mummy. 



Cops said this suspect, along with two others, are part of a crew that robbed people at gunpoint. 





At around 6 am on July 9, the three men entered an apartment building at 1665 Vyse Avenue in the West Farms section of the Bronx. Cops said the trio displayed guns and took property off of a 55-year-old male and a 46-year-old woman. 



No one was injured in the robbery. Cops said the same crew struck again at around 7:30 am on July 16. The trio approached a 35-year-old man in front of 56 Bennett Avenue in upper Manhattan.

Cops said the men walked up to the resident, pulled out guns and removed property from the victim. 


No injuries were reported in the robbery. 



The second suspect is a male with a light complexion who was last seen wearing a green hoodie which covered his face. He also wore green pants and white sneakers.  


The final suspect is a male with a dark complexion. He was last seen wearing a black hoodie and baseball cap which covered his face. He also wore dark pants and red and white sneakers. 



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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