New York goes to five boroughs
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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.
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- New York City Marathonconcerns
- Fred Lebowconcerns
- New York Cityconcerns
- The mass-participation city marathonconcerns
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