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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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Clerk Shot When Robbers Fired Assault Rifle into Store

Police are looking for a trio of robbers. One of them shot a store clerk with an assault rifle. -Photo by NYPD


By Dan Gesslein 

Bronx Voice

October 19, 2023


BRONX - A store clerk was shot in the arm by a robber who carried an assault rifle, cops said. 



At around 8 pm on October 12, a 35-year-old man was in a store on Hunts Point Avenue. Cops said three men wearing ski masks and purple latex gloves tried to gain entrance to the shop. 


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When that failed, cops said one of the robbers pulled out an assault rifle and fired a round through the door, hitting the clerk in the left arm. 


All three suspects ran off empty handed. 


Police released surveillance video of one of the suspects seen holding the assault rifle and pointing go a target on the street. 




The suspects are all described as males with slim builds. Each of the suspects were last seen wearing black pants. black hooded sweatshirts and masks. 


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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