Bronx
From the Archives: Rebuilding the ‘Bronx Center,’ 1993
Tatyana Turner |
City Limits looks back at a story from 31 years ago, when developers and politicians were pursuing plans to revitalize and develop “The Hub” in the South Bronx.
Housing and Homelessness
From the Archives: Queens’ Billion-Dollar View, 1985
Chris Janaro |
City Limits looks back at a story from its March 1985 issue exploring early development plans for the Hunters Point waterfront, at the time home to just 5,000 residents—what the author described as a “developer’s dream.”
City Limits 46th Anniversary
Flashback Friday: NYC’s ‘Rebel’ Squatters, 1990
Jeanmarie Evelly |
“My whole crew is squatting,” Ronaldo Casanova told City Limits in April of 1990, when he was organizing fellow squatters on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. “We have no other choice or we’re out on the streets.”
Bronx
From the Archives: The Happy Land Fire, Soccer and Grief, 1996
Jeanmarie Evelly |
Friday marks 32 years since the Happy Land Social Club fire in The Bronx killed 87 people. In the aftermath of the tragedy, a neighborhood soccer league became “a lifesaver for some men who did not know how to handle the flood of grief.”
Education
Flashback Friday: The Seeds of Mayoral Control for NYC Schools, 2002
Jeanmarie Evelly |
State lawmakers on Friday held a hearing to consider whether to extend mayoral control of city schools for another three years. City Limits takes a look back at our early coverage of the nearly 20-year-old policy, which was intended to provide a “a radical jolt” to faltering NYC public schools at the time, following in the foot steps of cities like Chicago and Boston.
City Limits archives
Flashback Friday: Staten Island’s Sandy Ground, 1982
Jeanmarie Evelly |
Mayor Eric Adams commissioned a new Staten Island Ferry boat dubbed Sandy Ground—named after New York’s first free Black community, founded on the island more than two centuries ago. In 1982, City Limits published an interview with William “Pops” Pedro, who was then 100 years old and had lived his whole life in the historic enclave.
2021 election
Flashback Friday: The Eric Adams’ Archives
Jeanmarie Evelly |
What will an Eric Adams administration mean for New York? A look through his political past can offer one answer. City Limits has been covering City Hall’s next leader for nearly two decades. Here are some highlights.
City Limits 45th anniversary
Flashback: How The Mayoral Candidates Said They’d Fix NYC Housing, 1989
Jeanmarie Evelly |
In the summer of 1989, City Limits asked the candidates running for mayor of New York—including Ed Koch and David Dinkins—to explain their plans and policies on homelessness, housing and development. Read what they had to say at the time (except for Rudy Giuliani, who didn’t respond).
City Limits 45th anniversary
Flashback Friday: The Vacant Lot Gardens of The South Bronx, 1979
Jeanmarie Evelly |
Flashback Friday is a weekly series highlighting a story from the vast archives of City Limits’ reporting as we celebrate our 45th anniversary this year.
