One bottle contained water he'd dredged up from the Harlem River as it ran by the Polo Grounds, signifying the lost Giants; the other contained water from the Gowanus Canal, which lines Brooklyn.

Published by New York Daily News on September 20, 2008.

CLAY FELKER, A SON of St. Louis, was a lifelong baseball fan. How more urban a moment could there be than the 1951 playoff game showdown between Ralph Branca and Bobby Thomson? In the radio booth at the Polo Grounds, helping with statistics, sat Felker, a Duke undergraduate.

Published by The New York Observer on September 18, 2008.

A 65-year-old man was assaulted and robbed while walking in the 151st Street and Eight Avenue around 6:30 a.m. on July 28.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on September 17, 2008.

After she vanished — on Aug. 29, just before the start of the school year — investigators found her keys, credit cards, wallet, cellphone and passport among her other belongings in her apartment in the Hamilton Heights neighborhood of Manhattan. She is believed to have last withdrawn money from her bank account on Aug. 28.

Published by New York Times on September 17, 2008.

After she vanished, investigators found Ms. Upp’s apartment in Hamilton Heights full of her belongings, including her keys, credit cards, wallet, cellphone and a passport. She is believed to have last withdrawn money from her bank account a day earlier.

Published by New York Times on September 16, 2008.

A friend last saw Upp on Aug. 29 as she was getting ready to leave her Hamilton Heights apartment for a school function at nearby Thurgood Marshall Academy.

Published by New York Daily News on September 16, 2008.

Police Sky Watchtower 7th Ave. near W. 144th St.

Published by UPTOWNflavor on September 12, 2008.

This week, on a rainy Tuesday morning, half a dozen Columbia students made the short journey from Columbia to the Frederick Douglass Academy 146th Street and Seventh Avenue to work with high school students on developing a self-sustaining greenhouse.

Published by New York Times on September 11, 2008.

Before she appeared at the Apple store, the last confirmed sighting of Upp, an NYC Teaching Fellow, was at her Hamilton Heights apartment, fresh from the shower as she got ready for a day at nearby Thurgood Marshall Academy.

Published by New York Daily News on September 10, 2008.

Before she appeared at the Apple store, the last confirmed sighting of Upp, an NYC Teaching Fellow, was at her Hamilton Heights apartment, fresh from the shower as she got ready for a day at nearby Thurgood Marshall Academy.

Published by New York Daily News on September 10, 2008.

Yes, I said cheesesteak as in Philly and not cheesecake as in Junior’s. I happened to notice that the bodega located 145th and 7th Avenue (across from the now closed Pioneer) is less than half its original size.

Published by UPTOWNflavor on September 9, 2008.

Hamilton Heights apartment, leaving behind her keys, cell phone, wallet, passport and ATM card, police said.

Published by WNBC on September 8, 2008.

Scotty was killed at 7:30 p.m. as an argument erupted at a crowded dice game W. 144th St. near Malcolm X Blvd.

Published by New York Daily News on September 8, 2008.

Upp, 23, vanished Aug. 29. She was last seen at her Hamilton Heights apartment preparing to go to work as a NYC Teaching Fellow at nearby Thurgood Marshall Academy. She left behind her wallet, MetroCard, clothes and cell phone.

Published by New York Daily News on September 8, 2008.

The teens were shot at about 7:30 p.m. Friday in front of 108 West 144th Street. Responding officers found two victims -- a 13-year-old boy who had been shot in the chest and a 16-year-old boy with a graze wound to the neck.

Published by WNBC on September 7, 2008.

The shooting happened at 7:30 Friday night in front of 108 West 144th Street.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on September 6, 2008.

Upp was last seen at her Hamilton Heights apartment, fresh from the shower as she got ready for a day at nearby Thurgood Marshall Academy.

Published by New York Daily News on September 6, 2008.

Scotty Scott, 13, was shot in the chest and stomach and died on the spot in front of 108 W. 144th St. about 7:30 p.m., police said. He lived about 24 blocks south on Frederick Douglass Blvd.

Published by New York Daily News on September 6, 2008.

Scotty said he was going to the store to buy a pair of the trendy new Nike LeBron sneakers but got waylaid when he ran into a group of pals hanging out on the corner of. W. 144th St. and Malcolm X Blvd.

Published by New York Daily News on September 6, 2008.

The boy, Scotty Scott, was struck once in the chest around 7:30 p.m. near 108 West 144th Street, just west of Malcolm X Boulevard.

Published by New York Times on September 6, 2008.

Police say it happened shortly before 7:30 p.m. in front of 108 West 144th Street.

Published by NY1 on September 5, 2008.

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.

Hannah Upp was last seen by a friend at about 2 p.m. last Friday as she was getting ready to leave her Hamilton Heights apartment for a school function at nearby Thurgood Marshall Academy.

Published by New York Daily News on September 5, 2008.

Lenox Terrace, where U.S. Rep Charles Rangel had four apartments, now qualifies as a luxury building. Townhouses in Harlem sell for one, two and even more million dollars, as real estate developers build new condos in Hamilton Heights and elsewhere, Meanwhile Columbia University arranges to get much of West Harlem declared blighted so its expansion in Harlem, past the Fairway grocery store and Dinosaur Barbecue, can march on.

Published by Gotham Gazette on August 27, 2008.

301 West 148th Street, a 13-unit apartment building, there are 295 open violations, including lack of hot water, peeling lead paint, missing smoke detectors, bars on windows blocking access to fire escapes, and apartments overrun by mice and roaches, according to the Department of Housing Preservation and Development. Abyssinian said that the violations existed before it bought the building, and that a recent rehabilitation had resolved them.

Published by UPTOWNflavor on August 22, 2008.

The crimes occurred on Dec. 7, 1997, in a second-floor apartment at 305 West 150th Street. The survivor, who was not identified, told police that Mr. Santana and at least two other individuals entered the apartment at gunpoint and demanded drugs, according to a criminal complaint filed in court.

Published by New York Times on August 20, 2008.

Police are searching for a gunman responsible for a double shooting that claimed the life of one victim and has left another in very critical condition, CBS 2 HD has learned. The incident occurred at the Polo Grounds Tower on 8th Avenue and 155th Street just before 3 a.m. Friday morning.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on August 15, 2008.

Police were called to the Polo Ground Towers at West 155th Street and Eighth Avenue around 3 a.m.

Published by WNBC on August 15, 2008.

Police say the victims were hit outside the Polo Grounds at 2971 Eighth Avenue just before 3 a.m. They were apparently involved in a dispute when a gunman opened ifre.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on August 15, 2008.

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.

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.

Twenty-four-hour service on the No. 3 train will resume at two Harlem stations. 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Gunfire erupted before midnight on Eighth Avenue around 148th Street.

Published by WNBC on July 9, 2008.

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.

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.

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.

Church members at Grace Tabernacle Christian Center raised their voices in praise and remembrance Sunday following the crash, which killed Wright's co-pastor and wife, Betty Wright, who was also her husband's travel companion on trips, including this final one.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on July 6, 2008.

Hamilton Heights wins again.

Published by New York Daily News on June 29, 2008.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Police said a gunmen somehow got into the man's Hamilton Heights apartment on West 150th Street.

Published by WNBC on June 24, 2008.

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.

On the corner of 155th Street and Frederick Douglas Boulevard in Harlem, New York lies Rucker Park. By appearances, the green concrete pavement, anchored on either end by its run down slab bleachers, is no different than any other basketball court in the city. But this is the place where nicknames are earned and legends are made.

Published by UPTOWNflavor on June 23, 2008.