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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 ...

Robbers Stab Teen in Knee Over AirPods

Police are searching for this man in connection with the stabbing of a teen for his AirPods. -Photo by NYPD


By Dan Gesslein

Bronx Voice

September 26, 2023


BRONX - Police released new surveillance video of one of two suspects from an attack in which a teen was stabbed in the knee to steal his AirPods. 



At around 1 pm on July 17, a 14-year-old boy was standing in front of a Five Below store on Southern Boulevard. Cops said too men approached and punched the teen multiple times in the face. 


Then one of the attackers pulled out an unknown sharp object and stabbed the teen in the knee. 


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The attackers picked up the teen’s AirPods and ran off. 


Cops said the victim sustained minor injuries but refused medical attention at the scene.  




Investigators said the AirPods are valued at around $300.


The suspects are described as males with dark complexions. One of the individuals was last seen wearing gray shorts, a black t-shirt and gray sandals with white socks.



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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