New York Road Runners

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1. Story
2. The running club that has organised the New York City Marathon since its first running in 1970 and that, under Fred Lebow, turned it from a Central Park club race into a five-borough municipal event in 1976. NYRR is the institution through which the mass-participation model was worked out in practice — lotteries, charity entries, closed streets, a field measured in tens of thousands — and the model other cities copied. It is also the body that had to accept, in the mid-1980s, that its own course had been measured short and that two world bests set on it were void.
3. Knowledge
4. New York City
5. New York Road Runners
6. Connections
7. New York City Marathon
8. New York City
9. The first New York City Marathon, in Central Park
10. New York is remeasured and two world bests are voided
11. New York City Marathon
12. London
13. New York Road Runners
14. The first New York City Marathon, in Central Park
15. New York goes to five boroughs
16. The first jazz record is made
17. Mamie Smith records "Crazy Blues"
18. Evidence
19. 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.