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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 ...

Fashionista Burglar Steals $27K in Clothes, Fragrances

Burglar Makes Off with Fashion, Fragrances
The NYPD is searching for this man in connection with the theft of thousands of dollars worth of clothes and fragrances. -Photo by NYPD

The NYPD is searching for this man in connection with the theft of thousands of dollars worth of clothes and fragrances. -Photo by NYPD

By Dan Gesslein 

Bronx Voice

March 2, 2024


BRONX - A fashion and fragrance loving burglar made off with a Bronx resident’s personal items during a break in, cops said.



At around 1:40 am on January 30, a man burglarized an apartment in Highbridge. Cops said a man slipped into an apartment through an open window on West 165th Street and Woodycrest Avenue.


Once inside the unoccupied apartment the burglar removed fragrances, clothing and electronics. Cops said the various items are valued at $27,000.


The burglar snuck out of the apartment but not before his image was captured on camera.



The suspect is described as a male with a dark complexion and a medium build who is six feet tall. He was last seen wearing a blue hooded sweatshirt and black pants.


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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