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    "parsed_content": "AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTSupported bySKIP ADVERTISEMENTThe New York City Marathon Route Is Changing. Here\u2019s What\u2019s Different.The course change, the race\u2019s first in the last 15 years, is supposed to reduce the impact of the race in the Bronx by restoring access to a supermarket.Listen \u00b7 3:48 min Share full articleThe course change to the New York City Marathon reduces the number of turns runners have to make in the Bronx portion of the race.Credit...Karsten Moran for The New York TimesBy Jennie CoughlinSept. 22, 2026Updated 10:58 a.m. ETSee more of our coverage in your search results.Encuentra m\u00e1s de nuestra cobertura en los resultados de b\u00fasqueda. Add The New York Times on GoogleAgrega The New York Times en Google For the first time since 2011, the New York City Marathon course is changing. Runners at this year\u2019s race on Nov. 1 will travel a slightly different route in the Bronx to minimize the impact on Mott Haven residents and reduce the number of turns the marathoners take.The Bronx section of the race is just over a mile long, but until this year it had seven turns. The change cuts that to five.The course until now had looped around a block that includes a Western Beef supermarket and a 24-hour laundromat on East 140th Street, cutting off those businesses from cars and complicating routes for pedestrians there for most of the day.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTMarathoners would run up Morris Avenue, make a left onto East 140th Street \u2014 around the supermarket parking lot \u2014 and take another left turn onto Rider Avenue. That route meant residents of the Patterson public housing complex, which has almost 1,800 units and sits on the opposite side of Morris Avenue from the businesses, could not easily access them during the race.\n \n \n \nA map showing the change in the New York City Marathon\u2019 route between mile 20 and 21 in the Bronx.\nMadison Ave.\nBridge\nMorris Ave. \nMile\n21\nSite of laundromat\nand supermarket\nPatterson\nHouses\nE. 138th st.\nThird Ave.\nNew\nroute\nRider Ave.\n87\nOld route\nE. 138th st.\nHarlem\nRiver\nE. 135th st.\nWillis Ave.\nThird Ave. Bridge\nAlexander Ave.\nBruckner Blvd.\nMile\n20\nBronx\nWillis Ave. Bridge\nManhattan\n \n The New York Times\u201cThis is our only supermarket,\u201d said Jennifer Alicea, 48, who has lived in the neighborhood for 10 years. \u201cThe laundromat, same thing.\u201d She said that, on race day, \u201ceverybody just knows to stay out of the way,\u201d and called it \u201ca real inconvenience.\u201dStarting this year, the runners will stay on Alexander Avenue and head north past 138th Street, where the course has turned left in past years. Runners continue up to 141st Street, then turn left onto Third Avenue. Then, when the runners turn right onto 138th Street heading south, they can head straight over the Madison Avenue Bridge back into Manhattan instead of having to loop up and around the supermarket block.Restoring access to the businesses was the main reason for shifting the course, said Ted Metellus, the chief event production officer and race director for New York Road Runners, which puts on the marathon. Mr. Metellus said the neighborhood had become more residential, which changed the impact. The organization worked with the city and the community to discuss alternatives ahead of the required course recertification this year.\u201cI had some sensitivities to that because those sections of the Bronx are food deserts,\u201d said Mr. Metellus, who grew up in the borough. He also noted that since the race is on a Sunday, people were more likely to be running errands at those locations.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTOn Saturday afternoon, there was a steady stream of pedestrians and people arriving in cars to both the grocery store and laundromat.Dante Williams, 45, normally drives to the laundromat from the Fordham neighborhood in the Bronx, since it has parking. On race day, he has to park on a different block. \u201cI got two giant bags,\u201d he said, describing how he would have to wait for a gap in the runners and then dash across the course, lugging his laundry with him.The change, which happens between mile 20 and 21, was one of two options the organization presented to the city and Police Department, which had to approve the change. Mr. Metellus said the group pushed to get it done for this year\u2019s race, which is the 50th anniversary of the five-borough version of the marathon. From 1970 to 1975, the course was four-plus loops of Central Park.In 1976, the course used the same two bridges to enter and exit the Bronx, but just did \u201ca quick loop around a light pole,\u201d Mr. Metellus said. After that first year, he said, the Bronx borough president requested that race organizers change the route to add more distance in that borough.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENT",
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