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Close ✕New York City Marathon
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.
40.6, -74.0 · route · 1970 – present, annual
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- A place in: The Great Marathons · 15 places
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- located in New York City — Since 1976 the course has crossed all five boroughs of New York City.
- created by Fred Lebow — Lebow co-founded the 1970 Central Park race and obtained the city consent that produced the 1976 five-borough course.
- operated by New York Road Runners — New York Road Runners has organised the race since 1970 and carried out the five-borough expansion.
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