A reader has just written in to inform us about her friend who has been missing for a little less than a week. Hanna Upp (pictured) is a 23-year-old Spanish teacher in the NYC school system, and was last seen on August 29th near her home in Hamilton Terrace. According to her roommates she had planned to go away last weekend, but was returning by Sunday. When she didn't return, they went into her room......

In April 2007, a Columbia graduate student was raped and tortured for 19 hours in her Hamilton Terrace apartment. More than a year later, her suspected rapist is now in court, facing 71 criminal charges including attempted murder, arson, rape and sodomy. Assistant District Attorney Ann Prunty describe the harrowing ordeal in her opening statement. From the NY Times:Over many torturous hours, [the victim] had been repeatedly raped, sodomized and forced to perform oral sex,......