Raging fires and breathtaking parties: return to the Bronx – in pictures

Roller dancers at street festival, Third Ave Hub, Bronx, 1981

As a teenager, Conzo found himself at the very center of the cultural and activist movements that changed the Bronx. His father was Tito Puente’s personal confidant, promoting some of the biggest salsa shows of the era; her grandmother, Evelina López Antonetty, was a community activist known as the Hell Lady of the Bronx; and Joe’s classmates at South Bronx high school were giving birth to hip-hop culture