The route
New York City Marathon
Next edition1 November 2026
New York, from Staten Island to Manhattan: 42.2 km of urban asphalt, five bridges, city neighborhoods all the way to Central Park.
Drawn with a pen, line by line
- Distance
- 42.195 km
- Named places
- 51
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Reading the route
The New York City Marathon links Fort Wadsworth, on Staten Island, to Central Park, in Manhattan, running from one end of the city to the other. The start crosses straight onto the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, then enters Bay Ridge.
The route then strings together the neighborhoods on urban asphalt: Sunset Park, Dyker Heights, Park Slope, Boerum Hill, Carroll Gardens and Red Hook, then Williamsburg and Greenpoint.
The Pulaski Bridge carries the course into Long Island City, in Queens, around the halfway point. The Queensboro Bridge then brings it back into Manhattan and the Upper East Side, before the Willis Avenue Bridge crosses into the Bronx, and the Madison Avenue Bridge returns to Manhattan, at Harlem.
From Harlem, the course heads on to Central Park, where the finish sits inside the park.
Paths and places: © OpenStreetMap contributors.
02 · Your poster
The route, drawn with a pen
The course, from Fort Wadsworth (Staten Island) to Central Park (Manhattan), takes shape street by street on the poster: our pen plotter draws it with a pen, line by line. Your finisher name and time go in the cartouche, in A4, A3 or A2.
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Official information
- Illustrative route redrawn by Plotrek from public data: the course announced by the organiser and OpenStreetMap paths. It is not the official course of the event.
- Places: © OpenStreetMap contributors
- Figures and text: Plotrek
- Plotrek is not a partner of, or affiliated with, the race organiser.