NYC MAY BREAK MURDER RECORD FOR 1988.(Local)

Byline: United Press International

The unrelenting violence plaguing city streets took six lives Saturday as the mounting toll of killings contributed to what could be a record number of homicides in 1989, officials said.

The unofficial tally for homicides in New York reached 1,773 as of Nov. 24, slightly ahead of the 1,755 figure for the same day the year before, police said. In 1988, there were a record 1,896 killings in the city.

The spate of homicides overnight began in Manhattan at 12:50 a.m. when an unidentified man in his 40s was shot once in the head in the schoolyard of Public School 113 at 240 W. 113th St. in Morningside Heights. The man …