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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 ...

Commercial Business Robbed, Worker Assaulted

Robbers Pistol Whip Worker, Steal Electronics in Bronx

The NYPD is searching for four men who robbed a store in the Bronx. One of the suspects allegedly pistol whipped a worker. -Photo by NYPD


By Dan Gesslein 

Bronx Voice

December 3, 2023


BRONX - A group of robbers pistol whipped a worker when they ripped off a Bronx business of electronics, the NYPD said.


At around 3 am on November 23, four men walked into a convenience store on East 142nd Street. Cops said one of the suspects pulled out a gun and pistol whipped the 25-year-old worker in the head. 


The group grabbed electronics from the store and ran away.


The first suspect is described as a male with a dark complexion and medium build. He was last seen wearing a green coat, black pants, and black shoes.

 

The second suspect is a male with a medium complexion and a medium build. He was last seen wearing a black coat, black pants, and white shoes.


The third suspect is described as a male with a dark complexion and a medium build He was last seen wearing a black hooded sweatshirt, black ski mask, light-colored vest, black and white pants, and white shoes with orange soles.


The final suspect is described as a male with a medium complexion and medium build. He was last seen wearing a black ski mask, black hooded sweatshirt, black pants, and black and yellow shoes.

 

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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