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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 ...

Cops Looking for Old Perv

Lewd Act Performed on Subway
The NYPD is searching for this man in connection with a lewd act performed on a Bronx subway train. -Photo by NYPD

The NYPD is searching for this man in connection with a lewd act performed on a Bronx subway train. -Photo by NYPD

By Dan Gesslein

Bronx Voice

September 3, 2024


BRONX - Cops are looking for an old perv who exposed himself to a woman on a Bronx subway train. 



The NYPD released surveillance video of an elderly suspect taken from inside a Bronx subway station. 


At around 10 pm on August 23, a 20-year-old woman was riding a northbound Number 4 train. As the train approached the Grand Concourse station near 149th Street, the straphanger became aware of a man in the subway car who was exposing himself.



Cops said the man then performed a lewd act in front of the woman. The suspect exited the train at 149th Street.


The suspect is described as an aged male with a medium complexion. He has a scraggily beard. The suspect was last seen wearing a dark blue windbreaker, dark pants and gray baseball cap. 


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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