Happy Monday, everyone! Lots of Bronx news to catch up on today and from this weekend. If you missed it, Alex Kratz took a look at Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr.’s State of the Borough speech in Friday’s Bronx Breakdown. We’ll have more on that–with some photos from the event–later today. In the meantime, here are some local stories we’re following this morning:

• An elderly Parkchester man and his 46-year-old mentally handicapped son were discovered dead in their apartment on Saturday. Though the cause of their deaths is unclear, neighbors speculated that Joseph Valerio Sr., 85, may have died of natural causes, and that his son–who was dependent on his father for everything–may have died later, with no one left to take care of him.
• An NYPD officer from the Bronx’s 42 Precinct, claims that he and other cops at the precinct were forced to keep up with an illegal quota system enforced by supervisors, and were penalized if they did not meet a required number of street stops and arrests each month. Resident in the South Bronx community, which includes Morrisania and Melrose, told the Daily News that getting stopped by the police for no reason is a regular occurrence.
• Another look at the criticism surrounding the city’s $128 million deal to get Fresh Direct to move to the Bronx : WNYC has a cool feature which maps the zip codes the online grocer services, along with the median household income of those neighborhoods. Fresh Direct delivers to only four of the Bronx’s 27 zip codes–the four in the borough’s highest income bracket. You can read some background about the Fresh Direct deal here.
• Woodlawn’s only supermarket–popular among the neighborhood’s Irish residents–is being forced to close its doors next month because of high rent and taxes. 
• Backlog in the Bronx court system leaves those accused of crimes lingering for years before a trial date is set. According to the Daily News, defendants routinely wait two to three years for a trial, a delay many blame on the 2004 merger of the Bronx Criminal Court and the borough’s Supreme Court.
• An accident involving several cars early this morning resulted in a livery cab crashing into a home near the Cross Bronx Expressway in Parkchester. Photo at the link.