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.
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