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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 ...

Wild Brawl Lights Up Social Media

Man Dives Off Car During Beat Down 

An attacker dives off an SUV during a wild brawl near Pelham Parkway. -Social Media

By David Greene 

Bronx Voice 

September 9, 2024 


BRONX - The Pelham Parkway community is reacting to a video posted to several social media accounts that shows a standoff between two groups of young men—before punches started to fly.


The video posted to the social media accounts of City Boy Times and Friends of Pelham Parkway on September 6, shows several young men on scooters surrounding an SUV along Lydig Avenue at Cruger Avenue.


One man climbs atop the SUV, when the men inside the vehicle get out when the brawl begins.


The NYPD was asked about the incident, but they had not responded before the publication of this article.


“Phylis” a 14-year resident of the area was asked if crime and violence in the area was on the rise or decline, she replied, “It’s the same, it’s just that when it gets warm it’s more active. It’s like the summer and spring is when it really gets crazy.”


One resident who recently moved from the area after 20-years in the community, added, “Crime is going up, it’s neither here nor there, the world has gotten worse.”


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