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  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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Gang Members Charged in 20 Shootings

Wounded 10 Bystanders - DA says


By David Greene 

Bronx Voice 

August 27, 2024 


BRONX - Thirty four individuals have been charged in a sweeping indictment that alleges that two local gangs are responsible for 20 shootings and the wounding of 10 innocent bystanders, the Bronx District Attorney announced.



During a press conference at the Bronx District Attorney’s office on East 161 Street, DA Darcel Clark was joined by law enforcement officials announcing the unrelated takedown of members of the “1300” gang who operated in the Olinville area and the “Slaughtery” gang, who operated in the Fordham and Fordham Heights neighborhoods.


Clark told members of the media, “The defendants continuously put the lives of innocent bystanders at risk with indiscriminate shootings, some during broad daylight, striking a 73-year-old woman who still suffers from the injury and a 15-year-old girl. They put the entire community in danger.”


NYPD Commissioner Edward Caban was not in attendance but issued a statement that read in part, “These arrests should serve as a warning to anyone who thinks they can terrorize our neighborhoods.



After a two-year investigation, 16 members of the 1300 gang were taken into custody and are now facing an 88-count indictment including conspiracy, attempted murder and gang assault.


According to the Bronx District Attorney’s office, three members of the gang have already pled guilty to the assault of off-duty police officer Muhammed Chowdhury, who was brutally beaten as he jogged in Castle Hill in August of 2022.


Meanwhile, 20 individuals from the Slaughtery gang, 17 males and 3 females including five teenagers were charged in a 176-count indictment that included 14 shootings and a stabbing outside a courtroom at Bronx Family Court.


Speaking to the violence directed by the Slaughtery gang in Fordham Heights, Kingsbridge, Highbridge and Morris Heights, Clark said, “A half-mile swath along the Grand Concourse became a corridor of carnage as these defendants allegedly fired guns again and again, wounding their rivals and at least four bystanders in mindless violence.”


The Slaughtery gang members face multiple counts of conspiracy, attempted murder, robbery, gang assault and weapons possession.


All defendants are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

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