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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 ...

Woman Pushes Toddler onto Ground - NYC Crime

Police are searching for this woman in connection with an assault on a 1-year-old girl in the Bronx. -Photo by NYPD


By Dan Gesslein 

Bronx Voice 

October 17, 2023 


BRONX - Police are trying to find a woman who pushed a toddler to the ground while the child walked with her mother. It is unknown the reason why she pushed the child, cops said. 



At around 1:24 pm on October 8, a 1-year-old girl was walking with her mother in front off 1745 University Avenue in Morris Heights. 


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Cops said the woman walked up behind the child and pushed her to the ground. 


The attacker ran off south on University Avenue. 


The little girl sustained minor injuries.  


The suspect was captured on surveillance video. She is described as a woman with a medium complexion and medium build. 



She was last seen wearing a short black puffy jacket, black pants, black shoes and black purse over her shoulder. 


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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