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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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Chain Snatched in Front of Baby

Bike Rider Rips Off Mom in Front of Child

Cops are looking for this man in connection with a chain snatching in the Bronx. -Photo by NYPD


By Dan Gesslein
Bronx Voice

October 12, 2023


BRONX - Police are searching for a man riding a bike who snatched a gold chain off a mother as she held her baby. 



At around 7:45 am on October 3, the 34-year-old woman was standing across the street from a school. She was holding her 4-month-old child and was standing in front of 707 Concourse Village West. 


Cops said a man on a bicycle rode up to the mom and ripped the gold chain off her neck as she held her baby. The robber then rode off northbound on Concourse Village West. 


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Cops said the stolen chain is valued at $400. 


The suspect is described as a male with a light complexion. He was last seen wearing a grey camouflage t-shirt, black pants and white and red sneakers. He caught on surveillance cameras riding a silver bike with blue forks.



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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