Editor’s note: Welcome back to the Bronx News Roundup. It’s been way too long since we last appeared here on the Norwood News’ Breaking Bronx blog. We regret our extended hiatus, but have created a new plan for consistency going forward. Starting today, we’ll be publishing news roundups on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. On Tuesdays, we’ll publish the Bronx Crime Report, which will include relevant stories throughout the borough and the latest statistics from Bronx precincts. And on Thursdays, we’ll produce our Be Healthy column, which will include print content and some online-exclusive  stories and information as well. Throughout the week, we’ll publish other print content as well as online exclusives. If you want to share photos, whether they’re beautiful, poignant or just ones that point out eye sores in the Bronx, send them to us at norwoodnews@norwoodnews.org and we’ll publish them here or in the paper. Thanks for your continued readership and please, let us know what’s important to you as a reader, whether that’s in the comments section, on our Facebook page or on Twitter.

And with that note, today’s roundup (Side note: sometimes these roundups will be extensive, sometimes they might just be a story or two. It really just depends on the time we have and the amount of news we can find.):

— The NY Times takes a look at the Bronx’s burning image and how the borough is still fighting the stigma attached to its roughest days during the 1970sa and 80s. This in the wake of outrage, especially by Borough Presdient Ruben Diaz Jr., over a tourism company’s attempt to take people on rides where they would see the real Bronx, a real life New York City ghetto. The company dropped its Bronx ghetto tours, but reporter Winnie Hu delves into how the borough’s image is being shaped these days and if it’s living up to it. Plus: a link to some fantastic old school South Bronx photos from Angel Franco and the article ends in a poem!

— A fire ripped up a Norwood-area apartment building on West Gun Hill Road, just across the street from Van Corltandt Park, causing the roof to partially collapse and injuring several fire fighters, the Wall Street Journal reports.

— Francisco Diego Jr., a 22-year-old deejay who performs as DJ Tech Trackz, was killed at the Wakefield-241st St. 2 train station after apparently trying to retrieve his iPhone, which had fallen onto the track, the Daily News reports.

— The 26th annual Bronx Puerto Rican Parade was held yesterday, with 60,000 participants and spectators filling up the Grand Concourse from Poe Park to Mosholu Parkway. NY1 talked to one of the organizers, who said the Bronx version of the PR Parade is the “intimate” PR Parade. (The Manhattan version is next weekend) And this version is also multicultural, said Mike Sessano of LaSorsa Auto Group, the grand marshall of the parade who is also Italian.

(If you have photos or videos from the parade, send them to us at norwoodnews@norwoodnews.org or upload them to youtube and send us the link.)

— Bronx News 12 was at the Bronx-focused mayoral forum hosted by Bronx Assemblyman Mark Gjonaj and talked to some of the audience members. (Side note: We served as one of three panelists asking questions to the candidates. You can briefly see me take a sip of water at the 59 second mark. Hydration is important at these things. We’ll have photos and a story from this forum later this week and in next week’s print edition.)

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That’s it for today. We’ll be back on Wednesday.