On this day
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LEAD: Last Friday the lobby of the apartment building at 320 Sterling Street, in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, was crowded with milling reporters and angry, shouting tenants.
LEAD: Studies show that the typical consumer is bombarded by 5,000 advertising messages a day, and the number of ads is expected to increase steadily. That trend has many executives in the industry worried about the growing advertising clutter.
LEAD: MELVIN VAN PEEBLES - writer, film maker, producer, actor, songwriter, director, financial analyst - never does anything quite the way anyone else does. His style combines the straightforward and the theatrical.
LEAD: THE young boy talks too loudly into the telephone, his mouth too close. ''Hello Daddy,'' he says. ''It is nice outside here. My birthday is soon. I will be 6. When will you come home? I love you.'' He is not sure his father is listening, but he can be fairly certain that thousands of other people are.
LEAD: New York State's highest court yesterday unanimously upheld a state law that granted tax abatements to both commercial and residential space in new, mixed-use apartment buildings.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 17, 1988, covering February 18, 1988.
George Michael
Soundtrack
Tiffany
INXS
Michael Jackson
1988Roman Neustädter, German-Russian footballer[†]
Roman Petrovich Neustädter is a professional footballer who plays for Belgian First Division A club Westerlo.
1988Sarah Sutherland, American actress[†]
Sarah Sutherland is a Canadian-American actress, best known for her role as Catherine Meyer in Veep.
1988Maiara Walsh, American-Brazilian actress[†]
Maiara Walsh is an American actress. She played Ana Solis on the sixth season of the ABC show Desperate Housewives, Meena Paroom on the Disney Channel sitcom Cory in the House and Simone Sinclair on the Freeform series Switched at Birth. She also portrayed Vicky Patterson in the film Identity Theft of a Cheerleader by Lifetime and Mandi Weatherly in the film Mean Girls 2 on Freeform.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]