On this day
Revisit the news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]
LEAD: Despite some significant progress in race relations, most New Yorkers say important divisions between blacks and whites are now as wide as they were a decade ago, or wider.
LEAD: IMAGINE commuting between New Jersey and Manhattan with breathtaking views and, on fair days, blue waters and skies. Some commuters are doing that now as ferry service, dormant since the 1960's, has begun a renaissance that is expected to continue into the next decade.
LEAD: OVER the last 16 years, the 421a real-estate tax-abatement program has cost New York City $551.1 million in tax revenues it agreed to forgo.
LEAD: TO tighten what education officials called some of the most lenient standards in the country, two state panels have proposed tough new rules for training and licensing doctors in New Jersey.
LEAD: A NEW YORK THEATERGOER stricken by an inferiority complex in London could perennially take solace in the one American beachhead along the West End - the musical. For all its classical glories, London has long been dependent on New York for that levitating synthesis of song, dance, drama and performance that is Broadway's one undisputed contribution to world theater.
LEAD: EARLIER this month, from the training camp of Ray Leonard in Hilton Head, S.C., the veteran fight trainer, Angelo Dundee, dashed off a postcard to a boxing friend.
LEAD: HOW best to manage Long Island's ground water supply has become in recent weeks a political as much as an environmental issue, as government officials have scrambled to respond to widespread concern over whether the Island will be able to provide pure drinking water for generations to come.
LEAD: SOME were quiet, others filled with political sound and fury.
LEAD: FIFTEEN years ago, Tyson's Corner was little more than pastureland, but it now has a reputation for some of the worst traffic problems in the Washington area. Sixty thousand cars stream every day into this cluster of corporate headquarters and retail shopping.
LEAD: AS property owners in much of Huntington Town go to the polls this Tuesday, their ballots on a referendum requesting approval of a new garbage district may serve as one of Long Island's first tests of voter reaction to the growing costs of meeting the mandate imposed by the Long Island Landfill Closure
LEAD: Manuel Scharf, a Brooklyn developer, knows that home buyers like Park Slope. But he concedes that his new town-house development, called the Villas at Park Slope, is actually situated in a fringe area that some call Park Slope South and others call Greenwood Heights.