On Sunday, the runners will go over the Brooklyn Bridge for the first time because of construction in Lower Manhattan.
On Sunday, the runners will go over the Brooklyn Bridge for the first time because of construction in Lower Manhattan.
On Sunday, the runners will go over the Brooklyn Bridge for the first time because of construction in Lower Manhattan.
Good morning. It’s Friday. Today we’ll look at why the New York City Half Marathon on Sunday will follow a new route. We’ll also get details on a protest at Trump Tower by a progressive Jewish group in support of a Palestinian activist whom the Trump administration wants to deport.
The organizers of the New York City Half Marathon insist that they love the Manhattan Bridge. But they are forsaking it.
The 13.1-mile race on Sunday morning will take the Brooklyn Bridge. The runners will stream onto the Manhattan-bound lower roadway, not the wooden-planked pedestrian walkway on the upper level. It will be the first time that a race has gone over that bridge, according to the city Department of Transportation.
The new route is “anywhere from 30 seconds to a minute faster,” said Ted Metellus, the race director for New York Road Runners, which organizes the Half. The runners will not have to cope with a couple of uphills on the way to the bridge — and the Brooklyn Bridge is flatter than the Manhattan Bridge, he said.
So everyone — all 27,000-plus entrants — will set a personal record, because no one has run that course before.