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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 ...

Murder Victim Id’d in Quadruple Shooting in Bronx

1 Dead, 3 Wounded in Bronx Shooting 

The NYPD has identified the lone murder victim in the Sunday quadruple shooting in the Bronx. -Photo by NYPD
The NYPD has identified the lone murder victim in the Sunday quadruple shooting in the Bronx. -Photo by NYPD

By Dan Gesslein 

Bronx Voice 

January 22, 2024 


BRONX - Police have identified the lone murder victim in a quadruple shooting outside a Bronx hamburger joint that left one man dead and three injured.


Police have identified 23-year-old Dashawn Hibbert as the victim in the Sunday morning shooting. Investigators would not comment further or say whether was the target of the deadly shooting.


At around 6 am on January 21, cops from the 47th Precinct responded to a 911 call at Jimbo’s Hamburgers at 4137 White Plains Road. Cops discovered a Hibbert with a gunshot wound to the torso. 


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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. 


Developing….


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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