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.
Anyway, these are the streets that will be closed for the duration of the event, from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Oct. 19.