How New York City Made the Modern Marathon

One ruptured his esophagus before the halfway point. But the first man .... The marathon now begins in Staten Island, at the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, and passes through Brooklyn and Queens before hitting Manhattan at the sixteen-mile m

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Halfway Brook trail work expected to begin later this year

QUEENSBURY | Supervisor John Strough is lining up his group of volunteer bridge-builders for another project. Strough said he hopes to start construction of a walking bridge over Halfway Brook by the end of the year. The bridg