New York City Marathon

The race route through all five boroughs. It starts on Staten Island, crosses the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge into Brooklyn for the long straight up Fourth Avenue, cuts through Queens, and takes the Queensboro Bridge into Manhattan — First Avenue north to the Bronx, then back down Fifth Avenue to finish in Central Park. [Route details] Start: Staten Island · Finish: Central Park 42.61 km · climb 89 m [Good to know] - Flat by marathon standards, but the climb is all on bridges — the Verrazzano-Narrows in the first mile and the Queensboro just past halfway, where the crowds go silent. - Run on the first Sunday in November. The bridges are closed to walkers the rest of the year, so this line is a record of the course rather than a walk anyone can repeat.