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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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Valentines Day Beat Down at Bronx Smoke Shop

The NYPD is searching for this man along with two others for an assault of an employee at a Bronx smoke shop. -Photo by NYPD
The NYPD is searching for this man along with two others for an assault of an employee at a Bronx smoke shop. -Photo by NYPD


By Dan Gesslein 

Bronx Voice

February 25, 2024


BRONX - A trio of smoke shop shoplifters beat an employee who tried to stop them from robbing items, cops said.


At around 1:40 am on February 14, three men entered the smoke shop on Walton Avenue. Cops said the crew took items and attempted to leave the store without paying.


A 26-year-old employee tried to stop the shoplifters when they pounced. Cops said the crew just wailed on the clerk as all three repeatedly punched the employee.


The attackers then ran out of the store.


Cops said the thieves ran off with $250 worth of cannabis items.


Two of the individuals have a dark complexion. One of the individuals has a medium complexion.


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: Walton Ave, Bronx, NY, USA

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