Fred Lebow
person · earth · New York
Co-founder and long-time director of the New York City Marathon. He ran the first race in Central Park on 13 September 1970, finishing 45th of the 55 who completed it, and spent the following six years lobbying for permission to take the course out of the park and across all five boroughs, which happened in 1976. Lebow is the person through whom the marathon became a municipal event: the thing he had to obtain was not a course but the consent of a city to close itself.
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- Story
- Co-founder and long-time director of the New York City Marathon. He ran the first race in Central Park on 13 September 1970, finishing 45th of the 55 who completed it, and spent the following six years lobbying for permission to take the course out of the park and across all five boroughs, which happened in 1976. Lebow is the person through whom the marathon became a municipal event: the thing he had to obtain was not a course but the consent of a city to close itself.
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- Fred Lebow
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- New York City Marathon
- The first New York City Marathon, in Central Park
- New York goes to five boroughs
- Evidence
- 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.
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