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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 ...

Star and Stripes Stabber Attacks Man Near Yankee Stadium

Ghoul Stabs Man on Halloween
The NYPD is searching for a man in a star and stripes suit in connection with a stabbing near Yankee Stadium. -Photo by NYPD

The NYPD is searching for a man in a star and stripes suit in connection with a stabbing near Yankee Stadium. -Photo by NYPD

By Dan Gesslein

Bronx Voice

November 15, 2024


BRONX - Cops are looking for a man who wore stars and stripes for allegedly stabbing a man near Yankee Stadium on Halloween.


At around 11:30 pm on October 31, a 31-year-old male was in front of 1169 River Avenue, three blocks away from Yankee Stadium. Cops said a man in a black jacket with white stars jacket and yellow and white striped shirt began arguing with him.


Suddenly the man in the striped shirt pulled out a knife and plunged it in the man’s chest.


The attacker ran off on River Avenue. 


EMS raced the victim to Jacobi Medical Center where he was listed in stable condition.


The suspect is described as a male with medium complexion and medium build. He was last seen wearing a black and white suit, a black and yellow shirt, yellow sweatpants, and black and white Adidas slippers.


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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