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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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Moped Riding Gunmen Stick Up Gas Station

Cops Looking for Crooks Riding ‘Damaged’ Moped 

The NYPD is searching for a pair of Men in Black riding a damaged moped in connection with the stickup at a Bronx gas station. -Photo by NYPD
The NYPD is searching for a pair of Men in Black riding a damaged moped in connection with the stickup at a Bronx gas station. -Photo by NYPD


By Dan Gesslein

Bronx Voice

April 23, 2024


BRONX - A pair of moped riding gunmen robbed a Soundview gas station in broad daylight, cops said. 


At around 3:50 pm on April 11, two men pulled up to the Shell gas station at 1500 Bruckner Boulevard. Cops said they walked into the mini mart at the station, displayed a handgun and removed $1,000 cash from the register. 


Cops said the robbers then hopped on the black moped, which showed signs of damage, and rode off on Bruckner Boulevard. 


The NYPD released photos from surveillance video of the two robbers at the gas station.  


The suspects are described as males with light complexion and slim builds. They were last seen wearing all black and black ski masks. 


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: 1500 Bruckner Blvd, Bronx, NY 10473, USA

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