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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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Jewelry Thief Steals Display Case in Bay Plaza

Robber Takes Display of Jewelry in Bronx Mall


The NYPD is searching for this man in connection with the robbery of a jewelry store inside the Bay Plaza Mall. -Photo by NYPD


By Dan Gesslein

Bronx Voice

November 28, 2023


BRONX - The NYPD is looking for a brazen jewelry thief that took a display case right out of the store in Bay Plaza. 


At around 8:45 am on November 6, a man walked into HF Jewelry store in the Bay Plaza indoor mall. Cops said the suspect removed a display of jewelry from off the counter and ran out of the store. 


Investigators said the jewelry is valued at $4,045. 


Mall surveillance video captured images of the suspect. He is described as a male between teh ages of 17 and 20. He has a dark complexion and a medium build. He was was last seen wearing a black jacket, hooded tan sweatshirt, tan sweatpants, black sneakers, tan winter hat and carrying a light blue bag.


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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