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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 ...

Slipper Wearing Slasher Stabs Man Repeatedly While Vic was Ordering Sandwich

Man Stabbed While On Line Ordering Food in Bronx Deli

The NYPD is searching for this slipper wearing suspect in connection with a stabbing inside a Bronx deli. -Photo by NYPD

By Dan Gesslein

Bronx Voice

December 19, 2023


BRONX - The NYPD is searching for a slipper wearing slasher who allegedly stabbed a man repeatedly while the victim waited on line to order a sandwhich. 


At around 11:45 pm on December 10, 26-year-old man was on line ordering food inside a deli on Stratford Avenue. Cops said another male walked up to the victim him and punched him in the face. The attacker then pulled out a knife and repeatedly stabbed the victim across his body, causing puncture wounds and lacerations, investigators said. 


The attacker then ran out of the store. 


The victim was rushed to Jacobi Medical Center where he is listed in stable condition.  


Muggers Knock Woman, 82, to the Ground


QUEENS - A pair of muggers knocked an 82-year-old woman to the ground and robbed her in Sunnyside, Queens, cops said. 


The suspect is described as a male with a medium complexion and a goatee. He was last seen wearing a hat, dark colored long sleeve shirt with white lettering, black jeans and white slippers.


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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