diff --git a/recipes/nytimes.recipe b/recipes/nytimes.recipe
index bbbb238a40..f6cf8b1f4a 100644
--- a/recipes/nytimes.recipe
+++ b/recipes/nytimes.recipe
@@ -90,7 +90,6 @@ class NewYorkTimes(BasicNewsRecipe):
     no_stylesheets = True
     compress_news_images = True
     compress_news_images_auto_size = 5
-    remove_attributes = ['style']
     conversion_options = {'flow_size': 0}
 
     @property
diff --git a/recipes/nytimes_sub.recipe b/recipes/nytimes_sub.recipe
index bbbb238a40..f6cf8b1f4a 100644
--- a/recipes/nytimes_sub.recipe
+++ b/recipes/nytimes_sub.recipe
@@ -90,7 +90,6 @@ class NewYorkTimes(BasicNewsRecipe):
     no_stylesheets = True
     compress_news_images = True
     compress_news_images_auto_size = 5
-    remove_attributes = ['style']
     conversion_options = {'flow_size': 0}
 
     @property
diff --git a/src/calibre/web/site_parsers/nytimes.py b/src/calibre/web/site_parsers/nytimes.py
index a4e0438518..acbc8b3df0 100644
--- a/src/calibre/web/site_parsers/nytimes.py
+++ b/src/calibre/web/site_parsers/nytimes.py
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ from pprint import pprint
 from calibre.utils.iso8601 import parse_iso8601
 
 
-module_version = 3  # needed for live updates
+module_version = 4  # needed for live updates
 pprint
 
 
@@ -93,9 +93,9 @@ def process_image_block(lines, block):
     if 'web.archive.org' in img:
         img = img.partition('/')[-1]
         img = img[img.find('https://'):]
-    lines.append('<div style="text-align: center"><img src={}/>'.format(quoteattr(img)))
+    lines.append('<div style="text-align: center"><div style="text-align: center"><img src={}/></div><div style="font-size: smaller">'.format(quoteattr(img)))
     lines.extend(caption_lines)
-    lines.append('</div>')
+    lines.append('</div></div>')
 
 
 def json_to_html(raw):