Brooklyn Marathon will close these streets on Saturday
On Saturday, thousands of runners (including me, hi!) will run for hours through part of Brooklyn, beginning west on Eastern Parkway, down Washington Avenue, Ocean Avenue, Parkside Avenue and Ocean Parkway, before turning back north and running around (and around and around and around and around…) Prospect Park.
That’s right, dear readers, it’s the Brooklyn Marathon. Crowds will turn out to complete the 26.2-mile and 13.1-mile marathon and half marathon routes, all in the name of… fun? Masochism? Bragging rights? I’m one of the runners, and I can’t even tell you. (Just kidding, it’s for the bragging rights.)
Runners will begin at Eastern Parkway and Washington Avenue at 7 a.m. and end in the southwestern part of the park… sometime later.
Brooklyn Boro
View MoreNew York City’s most populous borough, Brooklyn, is home to nearly 2.6 million residents. If Brooklyn were an independent city it would be the fourth largest city in the United States. While Brooklyn has become the epitome of ‘cool and hip’ in recent years, for those that were born here, raised families here and improved communities over the years, Brooklyn has never been ‘uncool’.