Good day, lovely readers, and welcome to today’s edition of the Bronx News Roundup. Let’s get to it, starting with the forecast: Hot! Temps could hit the high 90s today. Stay cool, folks.

This is scary. A box-cutter wielding robber is targeting Bronx women over the past three weeks. [PIX]

This is terrifyingly sad. A 4-year-old Bronx boy, Ebrahim Kebe, died last night after  getting hit by car when he ran out into traffic in front of his family’s apartment on Topping Avenue near East 175th Street. [Daily News]

This is inspiring. budding legal minds at MS 145 in Morrisania recently took home a mock trial competition and were rewarded with a trip to a Yankees game last night.[Daily News]

This means the Bronx tops some kind of lifestyle marker that isn’t unemployment or unhealthiness! According to the MTA, the Bronx is the No. 1 reverse commute market in the entire country. Ridership in the borough has grown three-fold since 1995 and officials say it has a lot to do with healthcare unemployment north of the Bronx, in places like White Plains, Stamford and Greenwich. WNYC found this out a public hearing yesterday, where officials were discussing the possibility of adding four new Metro-North stops in the Boogie Down: Co-op City, Morris Park, Parkchester and Hunts Point. But that won’t happen until the East Side Access project is completed.

This is interesting, but probably won’t affect your day-to-day life. Taxi and Limousine Commission Chairman David Yassky blasted yellow taxi fleets and Public Advocate Bill de Blasio in a Daily News op-ed for opposing a compromise plan that would allow outer borough cabs to legally pick up street hails — as if that doesn’t happen, but still, it should be legal.

This is a good headline and typical of city bureaucracy. “In Bronx War of the Rosebushes, Volunteers Left to Care for Public Plants,” from DNAinfo, is about how the DOT planted rosebushes and other plants along the underpass to the 161st Street subway station as part of a massive renovation project. But now, no city agency is taking responsibility for caring for the streetscape foliage, leaving it up to volunteers to maintain the beds.

This is indirectly Bronx-related. Police shooting victim Ramarley Graham’s twin brothers were convicted on conspiracy charges in Manhattan yesterday. [AP via ABC]

This makes me thirsty. The Bronx Brewery is teaming up the New York Botanical Garden and several Bronx community gardens to form the Urban Hop Project. The brewery will use cascade hops grown at the Botanical Garden and other community gardens to create an Urban Hop beer. The proceeds, according to DNAinfo’s Jeanmarie Evelly, will go to the Bronx Green-up, the Botanical Garden’s community outreach program.

This is disappointing to folks and advocates  in the “toxic triangle.” The DOT said it is no longer considering removing the Sheridan Expressway, which, along with the along with the Bruckner and Cross Bronx expressways, traps Crotona Park and West Farms residents in a “toxic triangle” of pollution. Advocates have called for its removal for several years now.

These are our NY-13 updates with just six days until the June 26 primary: Adriano Espaillat is getting a boost from a group of northern Manhattan artists as well as the endorsement of Pulitzer Prize winning author Junot Diaz (This is a story from DNAinfo, which acknowledged the fact that its owner, Joe Ricketts, gave money to a super PAC that is supporting Espaillat … The RivPress says the Rangel-Espaillat rivalry is getting “nasty” after an ethics spat in the NY1 debate last week (Williams pounced on the exchange, saying the sparing politicians are squashing talk about real issues … Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi endorsed Rangel … Bloomberg has an overview of the race, including a breakdown of the demographics of likely voters from Jerry Skurnik, which estimates that 38% of voters will be Hispanic, 37% will be African-American and the rest white or Asian. Skurnik, a politcal consultant and demographics expert, broke down the race’s big question marks: “Will it be Dominicans who think they’re going to make history or will it be African-Americans who don’t want to lose what they have? Will Puerto Ricans vote like Dominicans or will they recall Rangel’s record of service to them?”

Enjoy the day. Stay cool. Vote on June 26. Send links and news tips to us at norwoodnews@norwoodnews.org.