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LEAD: EDWARD S. BROWN, a local developer, plans to convert the historic Church of the New Jerusalem at the western end of the city office core into a 21,300-square-foot office building.
LEAD: DRIVING within sight of the river's edge from the George Washington Bridge south to the marsh grass and reeds of Caven Point in Jersey City, it is possible, in less than an hour, to get a good measure of the rapid development under way along the New Jersey side of the Hudson River.
LEAD: IN the days when Martin A. Siegel was riding high as one of the country's top takeover specialists, junior associates at Kidder, Peabody & Company admiringly called him the barracuda. ''He was pretty, he was smooth and he was fast,'' one of them explained.
LEAD: IN 1982, the largest muskellunge caught in North America was pulled out of Lake Milton. It was the only lake in Ohio where muskie spawned.
LEAD: AN effort to establish the first drug-abuse treatment facility on the East End has met with opposition from Town of Southampton officials and has divided residents.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 18, 1987, covering February 22, 1987.
Bon Jovi
Beastie Boys
Cinderella
Bruce Hornsby & The Range
The Bangles
1987Han Hyo-joo, South Korean actress and model[†]
Han Hyo-joo is a South Korean actress. She gained wide recognition with the back-to-back successes of Brilliant Legacy (2009) and Dong Yi (2010), both of which were massive hits with high viewership ratings, solidifying her status as a household name. She is also known for the romantic fantasy drama W (2016) set in a parallel universe, and the apocalyptic zombie thriller Happiness (2021). In 2023, she starred in the high-profile Moving (2023), a supernatural action sci-fi series exploring super powered characters who lead ordinary lives. It became the most watched Korean original series on Disney+ globally and Hulu in the United States, and a second season is currently in production.
1987Sergio Romero, Argentine footballer[†]
Sergio Germán "Chiquito" Romero is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Boca Juniors.
1987David Susskind, American talk show host and producer (born 1920)[†]
David Howard Susskind was an American producer of TV, movies, and stage plays and also a TV talk show host. His talk shows were innovative in the genre and addressed timely, controversial topics beyond the scope of others of the day.
1987Andy Warhol, American painter and photographer (born 1928)[†]
Andy Warhol was an American visual artist, film director and producer. A leading figure in the pop art movement, Warhol is considered one of the most important American artists of the second half of the 20th century. His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, advertising, and celebrity culture that flourished by the 1960s, and span a variety of media, including painting, sculpture, photography, and filmmaking. Some of his best-known works include the silkscreen paintings Campbell's Soup Cans (1962) and Marilyn Diptych (1962), the experimental film Chelsea Girls (1966), the multimedia events known as the Exploding Plastic Inevitable (1966–67), and the erotic film Blue Movie (1969) that started the "Golden Age of Porn".
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]