New York City

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1. Story
2. A city of five boroughs on a drowned river mouth, most of it on islands, which is the fact that shapes its marathon. Because Staten Island, Brooklyn and Queens, Manhattan and the Bronx are separated by water, a route that visits all five must cross bridges, and a bridge is a hill with no run-up. The 1970 race was confined to Central Park because closing the city was not yet imaginable; the 1976 five-borough course was a political achievement before it was a sporting one, and it established the template of the marathon as a municipal event that shuts a city for a day. It is a canonical city object and is not defined by the marathon.
3. Knowledge
4. London
5. New York City
6. Connections
7. New York City Marathon
8. London
9. New York Road Runners
10. The first New York City Marathon, in Central Park
11. New York goes to five boroughs
12. The first jazz record is made
13. Mamie Smith records "Crazy Blues"
14. Tea
15. Afternoon tea
16. Tea first shipped to Europe by sea
17. Boston Tea Party
18. Commutation Act cuts British tea duty
19. First Assam tea auctioned in London
20. London Marathon
21. New York City
22. White City Stadium
23. The 1908 Olympic marathon fixes 26 miles 385 yards
24. The first London Marathon
25. The Great Exhibition
26. Google DeepMind
27. Evidence
28. The first New York City Marathon was run in Central Park on 13 September 1970 with 127 entrants at one dollar each and 55 finishers, Lebow finishing 45th; the five-borough course was achieved in 1976 after years of lobbying. V55 verification basis: read through an attributed search summary; the NYRR page was not retrieved.