New York City Marathon

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1. Story
2. First run on 13 September 1970 as four and a bit laps of Central Park, with 127 entrants paying one dollar each and 55 finishers. Fred Lebow, one of the organisers, finished 45th. In 1976 Lebow got the race out of the park and across the whole city, and the five-borough course has run ever since from Staten Island over the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge into Brooklyn, over the Pulaski Bridge into Queens, over the Queensboro Bridge into Manhattan, over the Willis Avenue Bridge into the Bronx, back over the Madison Avenue Bridge into Manhattan and south to a finish in Central Park. The elevation is not in hills but in bridges: the climbs are short, steep and placed where they hurt most, with the Queensboro at about 25 km and the Willis Avenue at about 32 km. New York is record-eligible — its start and finish are about 20 km apart and its net drop is small — but its profile and its November wind mean the world record has not been set there since the course was found to be short.
3. Knowledge
4. The mass-participation city marathon
5. London Marathon
6. New York City Marathon
7. New York City
8. Abbott World Marathon Majors
9. New York Road Runners
10. Fred Lebow
11. Connections
12. Boston Marathon
13. Fred Lebow
14. London Marathon
15. The mass-participation city marathon
16. New York City
17. Abbott World Marathon Majors
18. New York Road Runners
19. The first New York City Marathon, in Central Park
20. New York goes to five boroughs
21. New York is remeasured and two world bests are voided
22. The World Marathon Majors series is announced
23. New York City Marathon
24. The first New York City Marathon, in Central Park
25. New York goes to five boroughs
26. Chris Brasher
27. London
28. Abbott World Marathon Majors
29. New York City Marathon
30. The first London Marathon
31. The World Marathon Majors series is announced
32. Tigst Assefa sets a women-only world record in London
33. The first sub-two-hour marathon in a record-eligible race
34. Tokyo Marathon
35. New York City Marathon
36. New York goes to five boroughs
37. The first London Marathon
38. The first Tokyo Marathon
39. Bombings at the Boston Marathon finish line
40. The first sub-two-hour marathon in a record-eligible race
41. New York City Marathon
42. London
43. New York Road Runners
44. The first New York City Marathon, in Central Park
45. New York goes to five boroughs
46. The first jazz record is made
47. Mamie Smith records "Crazy Blues"
48. Boston Marathon
49. London Marathon
50. Berlin Marathon
51. Chicago Marathon
52. New York City Marathon
53. Tokyo Marathon
54. The World Marathon Majors series is announced
55. Tokyo becomes the sixth Major
56. Sydney runs its first race as the seventh Major
57. Cape Town is confirmed as the eighth Major
58. Cape Town scheduled to run as a Major
59. New York City Marathon
60. New York City
61. The first New York City Marathon, in Central Park
62. New York is remeasured and two world bests are voided
63. Evidence
64. 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.
65. A record-eligible road course must have start and finish no further apart in a straight line than 50 percent of the race distance, and a net elevation decrease no greater than 1 m per km. V55 verification basis: read through an attributed search summary; the current World Athletics rule number and revision date were not confirmed.