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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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Stop Gun Violence Advocate Shot, Killed in Bedford Park

Worked for Bronx Rises Against Gun Violence

An NYPD crime scene marker marks the spot where Kavon Reid, 40, of Yonkers was shot and killed at Bainbridge Avenue and East 198 Street on October 2.-Photo by David Greene

An NYPD crime scene marker marks the spot where Kavon Reid, 40, of Yonkers was shot and killed at Bainbridge Avenue and East 198 Street on October 2.-Photo by David Greene


By David Greene

Bronx Voice 

October 8, 2024


BRONX - Police are searching for the gunman who shot and killed a Yonkers man during an afternoon shooting in Bedford Park.


Officials say the incident was reported at 1:47 p.m. on October 2, on Bainbridge Avenue at East 198Street. After being called to the scene, officers from the 52nd Precinct discovered the 40-year-old victim with gunshot wounds to the chest and leg and was "unconscious and unresponsive." 


The man was rushed to St. Barnabas Hospital where he later died.


Police later identified the victim as Kavon Reid, 40, of Hudson Street, Yonkers. The NYPD reported no arrests and no description of the gunman at the time of publication of this article.


A GoFundMe page set up for Reid stated that he was the father of three children and worked for Bronx Rises Against Gun Violence. 


One family member wrote of his shooting death, "On his lunch break, after visiting his grandparents home, he was senselessly shot twice by an unknown assailant once in the back, piercing his heart." The tribute concluded, "His untimely death leaves a profound void in the lives of his family and community."

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