The route
Traced editionrun on 1 November 2026
42.195 km across New York, from Staten Island to Central Park, over five bridges.
Drawn with a pen, line by line
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You set off from Fort Wadsworth, on Staten Island, and head straight onto the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, the first of the course's five bridges. On the far side, you run through Bay Ridge, then Sunset Park. It is a point-to-point course, moving from one neighborhood to the next over 42.195 km, all the way to Central Park.
Park Slope and Boerum Hill come next. Williamsburg and Greenpoint follow. Around halfway, the Pulaski Bridge takes you into Queens, at Long Island City. Roughly a kilometer further on, the Queensboro Bridge brings you into Manhattan, on the Upper East Side. These are the second and third bridges of the course.
The Willis Avenue Bridge, the fourth, then carries you into the Bronx. Shortly after, the Madison Avenue Bridge, the last of the five, puts you back on Manhattan, heading for Harlem. From Harlem, you make your way to Central Park: the point-to-point that began on Staten Island ends inside the park. The whole course is run on urban asphalt.
Paths and places: © OpenStreetMap contributors.
02 · Your poster
The course, from Fort Wadsworth to Central Park, takes shape street by street: our pen plotter draws it with a pen, line by line. Your finisher name and time go in the title block, in A4, A3 or A2.
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Updated Route and text: Plotrek workshop (Fabrice Jolivet)
Start: Fort Wadsworth (Staten Island). Finish: Central Park (Manhattan), 42.195 km further on. The 2026 edition was run on Sunday, 1 November 2026. First landmark on Plotrek's route: Bay Ridge, at km 5.7. Times and course can change from one edition to the next; the organiser's website prevails.
Landmarks on Plotrek's route: Park Slope at km 11, Pulaski Bridge at km 22.2, Willis Avenue Bridge at km 32.5, then Harlem at km 35.8. The last one, Harlem, is about 6.7 km from the finish, Central Park (Manhattan). These landmarks are a selection of named places along the route, not a full list of what it passes.
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