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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 ...

Fireball Snarls Traffic Outside Co-op City

Video - Car Catches Fire on New England Thruway 

Firefighters work to extinguish a car fire along the Northbound New England Thruway outside of Co-op City on Monday, March 16. -Photo courtesy of Citizen's App

Firefighters work to extinguish a car fire along the Northbound New England Thruway outside of Co-op City on Monday, March 16. -Photo courtesy of Citizen's App


By David Greene

Bronx Voice

March 19, 2024


BRONX - A vehicle fire temporarily shut down the New England Thruway outside of Co-op City over the weekend, cops said. Dramatic footage of the fire was captured on Citizen app.


According to police officials the incident was reported at 11:32 pm on Sunday, March 16, along the Northbound New England Thruway, between Bartow Avenue and Baychester Avenue. 


One police official told the Bronx Voice, "FDNY responded and extinguished the fire." He added, "No injuries were reported as a result of this incident.


A spokesperson at the FDNY stated that firefighters received the call at 11:37 p.m. and the incident was closed at 1:42 a.m on March 16.

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