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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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Subway Machete Maniac Arrested


By Dan Gesslein

Bronx Voice

September 10, 2024


BRONX - Police have arrested a man in the machete attack on a Bronx subway train.


Cops nabbed 54-year-old Runadieo Jordan at 2 pm today.


Jordan was charged with attempted murder in the second degree. He was also charged with first degree assault and two counts of assault in the second degree. In addition he was charged with criminal possession of a weapon and second and third degree menacing.


At around 1 am on August 31, a 31-year-old male was riding a northbound Number 2 train. As the train approached the Allerton Avenue station, a man approached the straphanger and began arguing with him.


Cops said without warning, the man pulled a machete out of a duffel bag and began hacking the straphanger in the arm.


The attacker jumped off the train at the Allerton Avenue station.


EMS rushed the victim to Jacobi Medical Center where he is listed in stable condition. He suffered cuts to his arm and hand.


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