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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 ...

‘Ball Player’ Steals $5k Generator

Thief Wheels Generator Down the Street

The NYPD is looking for this man who stole a portbale generator from a business in the Bronx. -Photo by NYPD
The NYPD is looking for this man who stole a portbale generator from a business in the Bronx. -Photo by NYPD


By Dan Gesslein 

Bronx Voice

July 10, 2024


BRONX - Cops are looking for  a man dressed as a baseball player who walked down the streets of the Bronx with a stolen $5,000 generator.


Police released street surveillance video of the suspect seen red handed wheeling the expensive portable generator. The man was dressed like a ball player for a local softball league. He wore a blue baseball cap, white t-shirt, blue shorts, black leg tights, and white shoes.



According to police, the suspect broke into a commercial establishment on 149th Street and the Grand Concourse across from Hostos College.


Cops said at around 3:20 am on July 6, the suspect broke into the closed local business. He then rolled out the generator valued at around $5,000.


The suspect is described as a man with a light complexion and a heavy build.


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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