Stride StoriesWaiting for your runner?
Here's the story of the corner you're standing on. Free stories along the NYC Marathon course on Sunday, November 1, from our fact-checked tours.
Open a tour in the Stride Stories app (free, no account needed) and listen to the story for your spot while you wait. Mile numbers are approximate. Our tours that cross the course show a road-closure note that day, so save the full runs for another time.
Brooklyn
Around mile 7: the Old Stone House, Park Slope. A block off Fourth Avenue. "The original house was a Dutch stone farmhouse, built in 1699." In 1776 the Maryland 400 made their stand here. Park Slope tour
Queens
Around mile 14: MoMA PS1, Jackson Avenue. "The red-brick school on Jackson Avenue" dates from 1892. In 1976 Alanna Heiss turned the empty building into an art center. Bridge to the Gantries tour
Manhattan
Around mile 22: Marcus Garvey Park, Harlem. Look up at the iron fire lookout on the hill, from around 1855. "There were once eleven of these towers across the city. This is the only one left." Harlem tour
Around mile 23: Fifth Avenue's Museum Mile. The Guggenheim's spiral took more than fifteen years from first sketch to construction, and the Met "was founded in 1870 with no money, no building and not a single work of art." Museum Mile tour
Around mile 24: Fred Lebow, East Drive at 90th Street. The bronze runner checking his watch founded the race. "The first one, in September 1970, was 127 runners doing loops of the drive you're on." Only 55 finished. The Loop: Central Park
Around mile 26: Columbus Circle to the finish. The USS Maine Monument on the corner, then Sheep Meadow, which "really had sheep," and Tavern on the Green, which was their sheepfold. The Loop: Central Park
After the race
Legs need a walk on Monday? Museum Mile is 1.2 easy miles along Fifth Avenue. Museum Mile tour
In town for the race? Start with Where New York Began in Lower Manhattan or Two Bridges over the Brooklyn Bridge.