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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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Holiday Housing Fire Displaces Residents, Injures Firefighters

 

By David Greene

Bronx Voice 

November 27, 2023 


BRONX - Three firefighters and one civilian are recovering after a fast-moving high-rise fire at the New York City Housing Authority’s Mitchel Houses—a fire that displaced an unknown number of residents just three days after Thanksgiving.


Fire officials reported that the blaze broke out inside an 8th-floor apartment at 11:01 a.m. on Sunday, November 26.


A Citizen's App video showed fire pouring out of two windows before firefighters set up two tower ladders at the window of the 20-story building at 215 Alexander Avenue and East 137 Street, in the Mott Haven section of the borough.


A fire official told the Bronx Voice that 78 FDNY and EMS personnel from 20 units battled the blaze and quickly brought the fire under control in 42 minutes.


The official added that three firefighters and one civilian all suffered minor injuries. The three firefighters were transported to New York Presbyterian Hospital and the civilian was removed to Lincoln Hospital. The cause of the fire remains under investigation.


With the holiday season upon us, the FDNY would like to remind shoppers to make sure that all electronic devices are UL certified, meaning the device, batteries and charger have gone through rigorous testing and meet the highest standards of safety.

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Location: 215 Alexander Ave, Bronx, NY 10454, USA

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