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In early February 1976, a newsletter was printed on yellow paper, stapled and sent out to housing advocates around New York. The name across the top was “City Limits.” Over the subsequent four decades, City Limits would grow to become the city’s leading source for policy news and investigative reporting on issues facing low-income communities. The design, the staff and our medium changed. Our commitment to reporting on the New York that most media don’t cover did not.

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Forty Years of City Limits

Editor’s Note: You are Part of the New York Story We’ve Told

Jarrett Murphy | February 1, 2016

In early February 1976, a newsletter was printed on yellow paper, stapled and sent out. The design was utilitarian. The writing was straightforward. The name across the top was ‘City Limits.’

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40 Stories, 40 Years: City Limits and the History of Today’s New York City

Jarrett Murphy | January 31, 2016

Since its launch four decades ago, City Limits has tried to tell the story of New York City from the perspective of people who, when they strolled the corridors of power, did so with a visitor’s pass.

Forty Years of City Limits

Four Decades of Dedication: City Limits’ Story

Alyssa Katz and Jarrett Murphy | February 2, 2016

Launched to share information among the housing advocates and community leaders rebuilding New York, City Limits grew to cover the issues, neighborhoods and people who made the city what it was over the past four decades.

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Video: Wayne Barrett’s Donald Trump Impersonation …. and More!

Jarrett Murphy | October 20, 2016

Watch Wayne Barrett, Tom Robbins, Henry Garrido, Julissa Ferreras-Copeland and others celebrate City Limits’ 40th anniversary.

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City Limits Marks 40 Years: Your Print Keepsake

Jarrett Murphy | October 7, 2016

You, too, can possess the journal from our 40th anniversary gala celebration. Autographs cost extra.

Forty Years of City Limits

A Photo-Biography of New York City, 1976-2016

Jarrett Murphy | February 4, 2016

City Limits exists to show New York another side of itself, and over the past 40 years, a roster of talented photographers (joined, occasionally, by a not-so-talented editor who happened to be holding a camera) has helped capture the people and places we covered.

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A City Without Limits: The Places Behind City Limits’ 40 Years of NYC Coverage

Jarrett Murphy | February 3, 2016

As City Limits celebrates four decades of reporting, past leaders recount the sites that were central to the city they lived in and reported on.

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