Happy Friday, lovely readers, we’re back with another edition of the Bronx News Roundup. Here are the stories we’re following today, starting with the weather forecast: Cool, rainy, high of about 70. Weekend should be very nice, with lots of sunshine and temperatures in the low 80s. Enjoy.

Big news for northwest Bronx bus commuters. The MTA restored service to the BX34, which links Fordham to Woodlawn. They’ve also decided to extend service of BX13 in Concourse Village to the Gateway Mall and provide entirely new service to western Hunts Point. A fare hike planned for January was also pushed back until March. [Daily News]

Bloomberg was in the Bronx Wednesday morning hyping a new health initiative aimed at getting grocery stores and other food shops to more prominently display healthful foods, like fruits and vegetables, and keep the junk food tucked away. According to the NY Times, the mayor says the city has commitments from 150 food establishments to make these display changes. (We’ll have more on this later.)

At the Museum of the City of New York, Bronx housing activists talked about the Burning days and how the term “South Bronx” became a catch-all for urban decay and disinvestment. Here’s Joe Muriana, a former organizer with the Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition and now a vice president for urban affairs at Fordham University: “The fact is ‘the South Bronx’ really came to mean a destructive dynamic that was a cycle of disinvestment, arson, abandonment, and then total destruction,” he said, according to Capital New York. Although things aren’t as bad — some neighborhoods lost 75% of their population during the 1970s — another activist, Banana Kelly founder Harry Di Rienzo, said he doesn’t think there’s as much support in a still very poor area: “Today, I think that a lot of the supports, social and public, are mostly gone.”

The Times takes a look at Mexicocina, a restaurant in Mott Haven that sells 17 different kinds of tacos and also offers huitlacoche, “a fungus that grows on corn, displacing the sunny kernels with ashy, bulbous distensions. It is at once disgusting and divine. Here, stuffed into a quesadilla ($7), it is oddly affectless, with not a whiff of funk.” Disgusting and divine, exactly how I like my meals.

13th Congressional District challenger Adriano Espaillat may not have beaten incumbent Charlie Rangel, but the Riverdale Press points out that at least he won the Bronx — 46% to 42%.

Bronx teens are having a tough time finding jobs this summer, the Press reports. One of our youth reporters, Brittney Williams, tackled this issue earlier this month.

A suspect charged with robbing Bronx women at knife point was denied ball this week.[Post]

People magazine has a feature on John Orozco, the Bronxite and gymnast who is shooting for gold at the London Olympics. Predictably, the article plays up his “rough surroundings” and desire to move his family “out of the Bronx.”

John Norquist, the president of the Center for New Urbanism and former mayor of Milwaukee says “tear down” the Sheridan Expressway in an opinion piece for the Daily News.

After four people were shot — one fatally — within a six-hour period last weekend in the 43rd Precinct (southeast Bronx), some are calling for a curfew and at least some reinforcements. [Daily News]

The family of Jose Ramos, the ex-cop who is being charged with aiding drug dealers (the investigation eventually led to the Bronx ticket-fixing fiasco), say he is unfairly being held in solitary confinement on Riker’s Island. Prosecutors say Ramos attempted to plot the murder of a witness in the case during a phone conversation. [NY1]

And finally, here’s Kappy’s politics column in the Bronx Times, which touches on Jose Rivera’s possible petition problems after placing 78th Assembly challenger Ricky Martinez’s name on his own ticket as alternate Judicial Delegate. (Ricky called us the other day to talk about this issue. He has a hearing with the Board of Elections on July 30 and is hoping to have Rivera’s petitions invalidated.)

That’s all for today, folks. Enjoy your weekend. We’ll be back next week. Send us links we may have missed and/or news tips to norwoodnews@norwoodnews.org.