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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 ...

‘Surgeon’ Slasher Gashes Teen in Bronx Bodega

Teen Cut Up with Scalpel
The NYPD is searching for this man in connection with the slashing of a teen with a scalpel. -Photo by NYPD

The NYPD is searching for this man in connection with the slashing of a teen with a scalpel. -Photo by NYPD

By Dan Gesslein

Bronx Voice

October 26, 2024


BRONX - A would-be psycho surgeon slashed a teen during an arguement inside a Bronx bodega, cops said. 




At around 4 pm on October 22, a 13-year-old boy was inside a bodega at 837 Home Street in Longwood. Cops said an older male wearing a back pack walked up to the teen and began arguing. 


Suddenly the older boy pulled out a scalpel and slashed the teen across the right hand and left arm. The attacker then ran out of the store. 





The victim was treated at the scene by EMS. 


The NYPD released surveillance video taken from inside the bodega. 


Elderly Woman Beaten Bad Outside Smoke Shop Near Seaport


Woman Slams Senior to Sidewalk in Unprovoked Attack


MANHATTAN- An elderly woman was viciously beaten on the street near the Southstreet Seaport in Lower Manhattan, in what cops are describing as a random attack. 


The suspect is described as a male with a dark complexion and short dreadlocks. He is 5 foot 8 and was last seen wearing a red sweatshirt and black pants.





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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