New York goes to five boroughs

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1. Story
2. After six years of lobbying by Fred Lebow and others, the race leaves Central Park and crosses the whole city, starting on Staten Island at the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge and passing through Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan and the Bronx before finishing in the park. The five-borough form is the template every mass city marathon since has borrowed: a route chosen to display a city to itself, and a municipal decision to stop the traffic while it happens.
3. Knowledge
4. The mass-participation city marathon
5. New York City Marathon
6. New York City
7. Fred Lebow
8. New York goes to five boroughs
9. Connections
10. New York City Marathon
11. Fred Lebow
12. New York City
13. The mass-participation city marathon
14. Boston Marathon
15. Fred Lebow
16. London Marathon
17. The mass-participation city marathon
18. New York City
19. Abbott World Marathon Majors
20. New York Road Runners
21. The first New York City Marathon, in Central Park
22. New York goes to five boroughs
23. New York is remeasured and two world bests are voided
24. The World Marathon Majors series is announced
25. New York City Marathon
26. The first New York City Marathon, in Central Park
27. New York goes to five boroughs
28. New York City Marathon
29. London
30. New York Road Runners
31. The first New York City Marathon, in Central Park
32. New York goes to five boroughs
33. The first jazz record is made
34. Mamie Smith records "Crazy Blues"
35. Tokyo Marathon
36. New York City Marathon
37. New York goes to five boroughs
38. The first London Marathon
39. The first Tokyo Marathon
40. Bombings at the Boston Marathon finish line
41. The first sub-two-hour marathon in a record-eligible race
42. Evidence
43. 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.