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LEAD: Irving Schatz scored a real estate coup three years ago when WNET/Channel 13 paid him $15 million to buy its offices and studios on the lower nine floors of the Henry Hudson Hotel. Mr. Schatz scored again in August when St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center agreed to lease the remaining portion of the 26-story building.
LEAD: When Unity Capital purchased Hillcrest Point for $10 million in 1984, the Long Island developer considered the decision as only a corporate milestone - its first foray into Rockland County. It had no big plans; the 16-acre garden apartment complex on Route 45 in Spring Valley, company officials thought, should remain a rental.
LEAD: SHINE HAWK By Charlie Smith. 367 pp. New York: Paris Review Editions/ British American Publishing. $17.95.
LEAD: A 2,200-ACRE planned community originally proposed in this small municipality 13 miles southeast of Las Vegas in the mid-60's is expected to get under way shortly.
LEAD: On one side of 96th Street is the 1,484-unit Normandie Court, where one-bedroom rents start at $1,295 a month. But when the apartment building rising across the street at 1865 Second Avenue opens in December, rents for its 18 two-bedroom units will be about $350.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 28, 1988, covering October 2, 1988.
Guns N' Roses
Def Leppard
Tracy Chapman
Soundtrack
Steve Winwood
1988Kirara Asuka, Japanese model and adult video actress[†]
Kirara Asuka is a Japanese model and former adult video (AV) actress.
1988Brittany Howard, American singer-songwriter and guitarist[†]
Brittany Amber Howard is an American musician from Athens, Alabama. She rose to prominence in the early 2010s as the lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist, and primary songwriter of Alabama Shakes. Her work with Alabama Shakes garnered her four Grammy Awards from nine nominations. Later in the decade, Howard played bass in the side project Thunderbitch and both acoustic guitar and double bass for the trio Bermuda Triangle.
1988Alec Issigonis, English car designer, designed the Mini (born 1906)[†]
Sir Alexander Arnold Constantine Issigonis was a British-Greek automotive designer. He designed the Mini, launched by the British Motor Corporation in 1959, and voted the second most influential car of the 20th century in 1999.
1988Hamengkubuwono IX, Indonesian politician, Vice President of Indonesia (born 1912)[†]
Sri Sultan Hamengkubuwono IX, often abbreviated as HB IX, was an Indonesian politician and Javanese royal who was the second vice president of Indonesia, the ninth sultan of Yogyakarta, and the first governor of the Special Region of Yogyakarta. Hamengkubuwono IX was also the chairman of the first National Scout Movement Quarter and was known as the Father of the Indonesian Scouts.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]