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Hamilton Heights
NYC school teacher goes missing
Family and friends of Hannah Upp are trying to determine the whereabouts of the Portland, Ore. native. Police say Upp was last seen about 2:30 p.m. Friday as she left her apartment in the Hamilton Heights neighborhood.
Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on September 5, 2008.
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Hamilton Terrace
Police Search For Missing Teacher
Detectives are asking the public's help in finding a 23-year-old public school teacher missing from her Manhattan apartment since Friday.Hannah Emily Upp, who teaches Spanish at the Thurgood Marshall Academy in Harlem, left behind her purse, wallet, passport, credit card, keys and cell phone when she vanished Friday afternoon from her Hamilton Terrace apartment, police said.
Published by WNBC on September 4, 2008.
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West 152nd Street and Broadway
Woman Who Crashed Police Van Faces 7 Charges
Anetta Mateo, a 20-year-old from Harlem, walked into a police station at the corner of West 152nd Street and Broadway around 9:40 p.m. on Wednesday, exited, and managed to take control of a marked police van, police said.
Published by New York Sun on August 22, 2008.
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Riverside Drive and 144th Street
Tenants Sue Landlord in Attempt To Force Repairs
Tenants in a Pinnacle Group building on Riverside Drive and 144th Street are suing their landlord, claiming that the six-story rental building is in need of extensive repairs.
Published by New York Sun on August 21, 2008.
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Broadway near W. 152nd St.
Woman swipes NYPD van, crashes
Before going a block, she slammed into an 18-wheel Pathmark tractor-trailer and a car on Broadway near W. 152nd St., police said.
Published by New York Daily News on August 21, 2008.
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Manhattanville
Harlem Height Limits
There are also studies underway for a ‘contextual’ rezoning of the areas of West Harlem left out of the Manhattanville and 125th Street rezonings. These are likely to ‘downzone’ areas of historic and intact built character to provide for height limits while providing opportunity for new development along transit corridors and wide streets and/or large underutilized/vacant sites.
Published by UPTOWNflavor on August 11, 2008.
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W. 146th St. and Bradhurst Ave.
Takin’ a dip in Harlem
JACKIE ROBINSON W. 146th St. and Bradhurst Ave. BEST QUALITIES: This gem of a pool is shaded by majestic trees and sports a fabulous water play area with huge fountains that look like frogs and palm trees.
Published by UPTOWNflavor on July 30, 2008.
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345 W. 145th St.
GYM MACHINE HURLS WOMAN
The accident was reported before noon at 345 W. 145th St., where a 38-year-old woman was using the machine, which firms muscles of the hips and inner thighs, witnesses said.
Published by New York Post on July 29, 2008.
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345 W. 145th St.
WOMAN WEIGHT LIFTED
The accident was reported before noon at 345 W. 145th St., where a 38-year-old woman was using the machine, which firms muscles of the hips and inner thighs, witnesses said.
Published by New York Post on July 29, 2008.
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Manhattanville
Takin' a dip in Manhattan
TIP: Tucked away on a side street, it can be tricky to find. It's across from Manhattanville Junior High.
Published by New York Daily News on July 26, 2008.
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Hamilton Heights
Monster gets life for rape-torture
During the trial, the 23-year-old victim testified that she feared she would not survive the nightmarish April 13, 2007, assault in her Hamilton Heights studio apartment.
Published by New York Daily News on July 25, 2008.
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145th Street station
MTA adds service on some subway lines
Twenty-four hour service on the 3 train will resume on at the 145th Street and 148th Street stations in Harlem, after thirteen years of stopped service between midnight and 6:30 a.m. During that time period, residents were forced to wait for shuttle buses or livery cabs.
Published by Crain's New York Business on July 25, 2008.
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145th Street station
24-Hour 3 Train Service To Resume In Harlem
Starting Sunday, around-the-clock service on the No. 3 line will resume at the 145th Street and 148th Street stations.
Published by WNBC on July 25, 2008.
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Hamilton Heights
Fixing Up a Brownstone on a Drug-Infested Street
Ms. Matloff, who spent 20 years as a foreign correspondent, noted that a number of geographic factors had converged to make West 141st Street in Hamilton Heights so attractive to the drug trade.
Published by New York Times on July 25, 2008.
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145th Street station
24-hour 3 train to resume in Harlem
Starting Sunday, around-the-clock service on the No. 3 line will resume at the 145th Street and 148th Street stations.
Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on July 25, 2008.
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Hamilton Heights
Trapped in a Bronx Zoo Gondola
Family members recalled a 71-year-old man, Andre St. Victor, who died with his 5-year-old godson, Emmanuel Casimir, during an apartment fire. Mr. Victor and the boy, whom he was trying to protect, perished after falling from the sixth-floor window of an apartment in Hamilton Heights.
Published by New York Times on July 10, 2008.
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611 West 148th Street
Two Die While Trying to Escape Manhattan Fire
The fire began in a fifth-floor apartment of a six-story building at 611 West 148th Street near Broadway, in Hamilton Heights, around 8:45 p.m. Eight other people, including two firefighters, suffered minor injuries, according to Deputy Chief John Sudnik.
Published by New York Times on July 9, 2008.
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Hamilton Heights
Two Die While Trying to Escape Manhattan Fire
The fire began in a fifth-floor apartment of a six-story building at 611 West 148th Street near Broadway, in Hamilton Heights, around 8:45 p.m. Eight other people, including two firefighters, suffered minor injuries, according to Deputy Chief John Sudnik.
Published by New York Times on July 9, 2008.
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Hamilton Heights
Uptown fire leaves two dead, several injured
The fire was reported Tuesday night in a six-story building in the Hamilton Heights neighborhood. It started on the fifth floor.
Published by New York Daily News on July 9, 2008.
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Hamilton Heights
2 Dead, 8 Injured In Upper Manhattan Blaze
There's no word on what started the fire Tuesday night in a six-story building in the Hamilton Heights neighborhood. The fire began on the fifth floor.
Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on July 9, 2008.
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611 W. 148th St.
MAN & BOY IN DEATH LEAP FROM FIRE
"It's heartbreaking to know that those two people jumped," said Aaron Haynes, who lives at 611 W. 148th St., where the blaze broke out at 8:40 p.m.
Published by New York Post on July 9, 2008.
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West 148th Street and Broadway
2 Die In Manhattan Blaze
FDNY officials told WNBC.com the victims were in the apartment directly above the fifth story apartment where the fire was on fire at West 148th Street and Broadway.
Published by WNBC on July 9, 2008.
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Polo Grounds
Street fight leaves Willie Mays benched
It skirts a housing project built on the former site of the Polo Grounds, where Mays starred as a spectacular center fielder for the New York Giants from 1951 to 1957, en route to Hall of Fame immortality.
Published by New York Daily News on July 6, 2008.
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Hamilton Heights
Hamilton Heights is city's most earsplitting neighborhood
Hamilton Heights wins again.
Published by New York Daily News on June 29, 2008.
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150th Street off Amsterdam Avenue
Teenager Is Shot to Death On Lower East Side
Early yesterday morning, a man whose identity has not yet been released was shot to death in a building on 150th Street off Amsterdam Avenue, in Harlem.
Published by New York Sun on June 25, 2008.
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Hamilton Heights
Convicted in his sleep
Before fleeing the victim's Hamilton Heights studio, Williams tried to cover up the crime by setting it ablaze while she lay bound to a futon frame.
Published by New York Daily News on June 25, 2008.
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Hamilton Heights
Columbia Torture, Rape Trial Moves Toward Jury Deliberations
The trial of an ex-convict accused of raping and torturing a Columbia graduate student is expected to go to the jury Tuesday.Defendant Robert Williams was tried on 71 counts, including attempted murder.Prosecutors said Williams carried out a 19-hour reign of terror on the woman after getting inside her Hamilton Heights apartment.
Published by WNBC on June 24, 2008.
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Hamilton Heights
Prosecutor: Man Tried To Kill Torture Victim
Williams, 31, was tried on 71 counts that included attempted murder, kidnapping, arson, rape and sodomy, committed, Prunty said, after he forced his way into the woman's Hamilton Heights apartment on April 13, 2007.
Published by WNBC on June 24, 2008.
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Hamilton Heights
Man Shot Inside Hamilton Heights Apartment
Police said a gunmen somehow got into the man's Hamilton Heights apartment on West 150th Street.
Published by WNBC on June 24, 2008.
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Area of Attack
Deliberations Underway In NYC Student Torture Case
A Manhattan jury is deliberating the fate of an ex-convict accused of raping and torturing a Columbia University graduate student for nearly 19 hours. The prosecution says Robert Williams should be convicted of attempted murder because he tried to burn the victim alive to stop her from identifying him.
Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on June 24, 2008.
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466 West 150th Street
Deadly home invasion
The victim was shot once in the torso inside Apt. 4C at 466 West 150th Street at around 3:20 a.m.
Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on June 24, 2008.
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Area of attack
Prosecutor Says Man Tried To Kill Torture Victim
An ex-convict accused of raping and torturing a graduate student for 19 hours should be convicted of attempted murder because he tried to burn her alive to stop her from identifying him, a prosecutor told jurors yesterday. The blaze in the Columbia University student's upper Manhattan apartment was set as the finishing touch on what an assistant district attorney, Ann Prunty, called Robert Williams's "one-man, 19-hour crime rampage."
Published by New York Sun on June 24, 2008.
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146th Street and Amsterdam Avenue
'HORROR RAPIST'S' HISTORY IS ROOT OF 'EVIL'
Williams was born and raised in Hamilton Heights. His elementary school, PS 153, still stands at 146th Street and Amsterdam Avenue - two blocks from where, 20 years later, he would allegedly rape and torture the journalism student after pushing his way inside her tiny apartment.
Published by New York Post on June 23, 2008.
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Hamilton Heights
FILTHBAG NO. 5
It was the first time the victim had seen her alleged attacker since he'd pushed his way into her Hamilton Heights apartment and nearly killed her, lead Detective Kenneth Fiol told jurors earlier.
Published by New York Post on June 19, 2008.
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Hamilton Heights
Columbia torture trial nears end
Robert Williams is accused of following the young journalism student into her Hamilton Heights apartment in April 2007 and holding her captive for 19 hours before setting her ablaze.
Published by New York Daily News on June 18, 2008.
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Hamilton Heights
SKETCH THAT NAILED IVY RAPE SUSPECT
She'd memorized the unusual mark - a small, bisected oval on the fiend's right abdomen - as he raped her after pushing his way inside her Hamilton Heights apartment in April 2007.
Published by New York Post on June 18, 2008.
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620 West 143rd Street
Can They Do That?
They are building a new luxury rental on my block. The address is 620 West 143rd Street. I spoke with the head contractor and he told me the building would be 12 floors with a parking garage. Additionally, the building will have a gym and a roof deck. I checked the DOB’s website and found little info. I can’t and don’t want to imagine what this is going to do to 143rd.
Published by UPTOWNflavor on June 14, 2008.
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Hamilton Heights
Brave torture victim will be back in court for verdict
With the trial of Robert Williams expected to go another week, she has time to muster the courage she found on Monday, when she identified him as her brutalizer. He was a no-show in court Thursday. Meanwhile, the super of the Hamilton Heights building where the attack took place on April 13, 2007, testified he met the victim the summer before.
Published by New York Daily News on June 13, 2008.
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141st Street at St. Nicholas Avenue
AN EVIL INTERLUDE
Then, as Williams allegedly tried to withdraw her cash at this bodega on 141st Street at St. Nicholas Avenue, the victim lay passed out on her futon, prosecutors say. Her wrists were each tied separately, with Ethernet cables, at one end of the wooden frame. Her ankles were tied together with luggage straps.
Published by New York Post on June 12, 2008.
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Hamilton Heights
Columbia torture jurors watch surveillance
The woman said that when Williams asked about ATMs, she told him she knew of two in her neighborhood, Hamilton Heights. The video shows a man entering a small general store. It does not show the street the store is on.
Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on June 12, 2008.
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Hamilton Heights
AN EVIL INTERLUDE
Manhattan prosecutors say this video shows sadist Robert Williams at a bodega one block away from where he'd left his victim drugged and bound with computer cables in the living room of her Hamilton Heights apartment on April 14, 2007.
Published by New York Post on June 12, 2008.
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Hamilton Heights
Prosecutors: Torture Defendant Stars In Surveillance Video
The woman said that when Williams asked about ATMs, she told him she knew of two in her neighborhood, Hamilton Heights. The video shows a man entering a small general store. It does not show the street the store is on.
Published by WNBC on June 12, 2008.
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Hamilton Heights
'RAPE VERMIN' GETS DRAGGED INTO COURT
Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Carol Berkman ordered Robert Williams - who often plays hooky from the trial - brought to her courtroom so he could be identified as the man lurking in the victim's Hamilton Heights building an hour before the brutal attack on April 13, 2007.
Published by New York Post on June 11, 2008.
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Hamilton Heights
Cowardly Columbia torture suspect forced to attend trial
Hawthorne, 27, of Long Island, took the stand a day after Williams' alleged victim described in wrenching detail how she was raped and brutalized for 19 hours in her Hamilton Heights studio apartment.
Published by New York Daily News on June 10, 2008.
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Hamilton Heights
CO-ED'S COURAGE
She told grim-faced jurors how, after forcing his way inside her tiny Hamilton Heights apartment on a Friday night in April 2007, her attacker slashed at her eyes with a butcher knife.
Published by New York Post on June 10, 2008.
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Broadway and West 150th Street
In a Dispute, Teenager Is Fatally Shot in Upper Manhattan
Mr. Kelly and two friends were walking at Broadway and West 150th Street in Hamilton Heights when they were confronted by another group, Argenis Ciprian, Mr. Kelly’s half-brother, said he was told by the police.
Published by New York Times on June 9, 2008.
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St. Luke's Episcopal Church
Historic liftoff: Alexander Hamilton home is moved inside Harlem park
First, a small army of engineers and construction workers hoisted the 206-year-old home nearly 40 feet in the air to squeeze it over the porch of the nearby St. Luke's Episcopal Church, which has flanked the wooden home since it was first moved back in 1889 to save it from demolition.
Published by New York Daily News on June 8, 2008.
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Hamilton Heights
HER NIGHT IN HELL
Her eyes dry and her voice strong, a Columbia journalism grad student described to a Manhattan jury yesterday her unfathomable ordeal of rape and torture by the stranger who shoved his way into her tiny Hamilton Heights apartment and enslaved her there for 19 hours.
Published by New York Post on June 7, 2008.
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Hamilton Heights
Rape Victim Recounts 19 Hours of Terror
But her conventional appearance belied the horrific experience she had lived through. Just over a year ago, the woman, now 24, endured what prosecutors called a torturous 19 hours. A man raped and sodomized her repeatedly after forcing his way into her apartment. He doused her with bleach and boiling water, forced pain medication down her throat and slit her eyelids with a butcher knife.
Published by New York Times on June 7, 2008.
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West 141st Street
Witnessing a House, and History, on the Move
Alexander Hamilton’s 206-year-old country home, the Grange, lumbered down the West 141st Street hillside on Saturday morning to its new setting in St. Nicholas Park.
Published by New York Times on June 7, 2008.