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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 ...

Quadruple Shooting in the Bronx

1 Dead, 3 Wounded in Bronx Shooting 

Four people were shot, 1 died during a quadruple shooting in the Bronx. -Photo by David Greene
Four people were shot, 1 died during a quadruple shooting in the Bronx. -Photo by David Greene

By Dan Gesslein 

Bronx Voice 

January 21, 2024 


BRONX - One man is dead and three people were wounded during a quadruple shooting in the Bronx, the NYPD said. 


A group of males ages 23 to 52 were all shot outside a Bronx hamburger joint in the Williamsbridge section. Cops said a 23-year-old was reported to have died from his wounds. 


At around 6 am this morning, cops from the 47th Precinct responded to a 911 call at Jimbo’s Hamburgers at 4137 White Plains Road. Cops discovered a 23-year-old man with a gunshot wound to the torso. 


The victim was rushed by EMS to Jacobi Medical Center where he was later pronounced dead. 


Police also found three other  men wounded at the scene. A 44-year-old male suffered a gunshot wound to the leg. A 26-year-old male inside the hamburger restaurant suffered a gunshot wound to the torso. Both were taken to Jacobi and are listed in stable condition.


During the investigation a short time later cops found a 52-year-old male with a gunshot wound to the leg. 


At this time cops do not have a description or video of the gunman or a motive for the shooting. 


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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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