As City Limits celebrates its 45th year covering New York City, a look back at photos from the archives.

City Limits celebrates its 45th anniversary this year. For the last four-and-a-half decades, our reporters, editors and photographers have devoted their talents to telling the stories of New York: stories of tenants fighting for better housing conditions, small businesses fighting to stay open, advocates fighting for a government that betters serves its people, and many, many more.
As part of our anniversary celebration, we’ll be rolling out stories each month revisiting some of City Limits’ extensive archives. Below is a collection of photographs and images that have graced our pages — both print and virtual — over the last 45 years.
June/July 1976

January 1977

August 1978

February 1979

March 1980

November 1981

October 1982

February 1983

November 1984

July 1985

January 1986

May 1987

Benny Didomenic, owner of the Michaelangelo Restaurant at 351 Jay Street, where the city was planning to develop the Brooklyn MetroTech campus. “I work 17 hours a day and it took me 11 years to build up my future. I don’t sleep at night anymore.”
December 1989

January 1990

The photo from a 1990 story on “Medicaid mills” which “earn their name by rushing vast numbers of patients through brief exams and prescribing unnecessary drugs, x-rays and lab tests in exchange for kickbacks from nearby pharmacies and testing centers.” (Photo by Adam Anik)
June/July 1991

August/September 1992

March 1993

May 1994

November 1995

February 1996

February 1997

April 1998

March 1999

June 2000

January 2001

March 2002

January 2003

November 2004

July/August 2005

Spring 2007

Spring 2008

Spring 2009

July 2010

March 2011

August 2012

December 2013

January 2014

January 2015

Adi Talwar
Natasha Creese relaxing with family and friends after a Sunday lunch in 2015. She was featured in an article that year about the 112 percent rent hike she was facing at her Crown Heights building.February 2016

Adi Talwar
The Beit El-Maqdis Islamic Center in Sunset Park, just north of Bay Ridge, a neighborhood with a heavy Arab presence where Syrians might be relocated if they came to New York City in any numbers.October 2017

Adi Talwar
Halloween in the Norwood section of the Bronx in 2017.
September 2018

Adi Talwar
Among the top points of origin for LLC donations in the state is 420 Lexington Ave., from where more than half a million in donations has flowed since 2015.August 2019

Adi Talwar
Fernando Torres (68, facing camera) speaking with an old friend in front of 885 Knickerbocker Ave. Torres lived in Bushwick from 1969 to 2018. He moved to East New York due to rising cost of living in Bushwick.November 2020

February 2021

Adi Talwar
A person getting vaccinated at the South Bronx Educational Campus Vaccine Hubs located on St Ann’s Avenue.
One thought on “New York City in Photos: 1976-2021”
WOW