Does anyone know the NY marathon route thru Brooklyn.–the actual streets?
Miles 3-8: Bay Ridge, Brooklyn to Fort Greene, Brooklyn The runners, still blissfully energetic at this stage, begin settling into their rhythm over a five-mile straight shot up Brooklyn’s boulevard-esque Fourth Avenue — from 92nd Street to Flatbush Avenue. It’s also one of the best segments for spectators, roomy and easily reachable, with the New York City subway’s N/R line making stops approximately every 10 blocks along Fourth Avenue and as far south as 95th Street. From the predominantly Irish and Italian neighborhood of Bay Ridge, where John Travolta did his strutting and shimmying in Saturday Night Fever, the course crosses the Gowanus Expressway at 65th Street and enters Sunset Park, home to large Hispanic and Asian communities. Picturesque Greenwood Cemetery, final resting place for Edward R. Murrow, Samuel Morse, powerful politicians and notorious gangsters, is just a block off the route between 36th and 24th Streets. Pushing further north, the race passes through the more ge
