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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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Detergent Thief Stabs Clerk with Screwdriver

Supermarket Employee Slashed with Screwdriver 

The NYPD is searching for this man in connection with the slashing of a store clerk with a screwdriver. -Photo by NYPD
The NYPD is searching for this man in connection with the slashing of a store clerk with a screwdriver. -Photo by NYPD

By Dan Gesslein 

Bronx Voice

February 21, 2024


BRONX - A supermarket employee was slashed in the hand with a screwdriver when he tried to stop a man from shoplifting detergent, cops said.


At around 4:40 pm on February 1, a man was seen removing detergent from inside a market at 1339 Jerome Avenue. Cops said a 57-year-old clerk tied to stop the man when the suspected shoplifter pulled out a screwdriver. 


Cops said the two men struggled and the clerk’s hand was slashed.


The attacker fled the store and ran away on Jerome Avenue. 


The NYPD released surveillance video of the suspect. He is described as a male with a dark complexion. He was last seen wearing a green jacket, light blue jeans and white sneakers.


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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Location: 1339 Jerome Ave, Bronx, NY 10452, USA

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