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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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Mount St. Michael Celebrates Installation of New President

The Installation of the 6th President of Mount St. Michael Academy, Bro. Michael Flanigan, FMS.


 


BRONX - Mount St. Michael Academy celebrated the Installation of the new President, Bro. Michael Flanigan, FMS on September 27, 2024. More than 700 members of the school community including students, alumni, faculty, friends, and Marist Brothers attended the ceremony.



 

Bro. Michael who began his tenure as the sixth President of Mount St. Michael Academy on July 1, 2024, was formally installed during the annual Mass of the Holy Spirit. Mass was presided over by Mount Alum, Fr. Richard LaMorte, from the Class of '54. Leading the installation ceremony was Bro. Dan O’Riordan, Provincial of the Marist Brothers' U.S. Province.

 

Brother Michael brings a wealth of ministerial experiences to his new position. He has been a teacher and campus minister at the following Marist schools: Our Lady of Lourdes, Poughkeepsie, St. Agnes High School, NYC, and Mount St. Michael, where he also served for one year as president, before being asked by our Superior General at the time to inaugurate a new program placing 200 Marist Brothers in Asian countries where we had not previously worked. Brother Michael also served as Head of School at Bishop Donahue HS in West Virginia. In addition, he worked on the staff of Abraham House, a residential program that served as an alternative to incarceration for young men in the South Bronx. He also taught for several years at Cardinal Hayes HS. Brother Michael worked as part of the Campus Ministry team at Marist College for the past 15 years.



 

The opening school Mass marks the 98th year since the school’s founding in 1926. “Bro. Michael’s administrative experiences, organizational skills, and fundraising abilities coupled with his passion for the mission which is Mount St. Michael will enable us to thrive well into the future,” stated Principal Br. Steve Schlitte.

 

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