#68 New York City Marathon

The Bowery Boys: New York City History

Tom Meyers

Places & Travel, History, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.7 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2008

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

A true five-borough episode! The New York City Marathon hosts thousands of runners from all over the world, the dream project of the New York Road Runners and in particular one Fred Lebow, an employee of the Fashion District turned athletic icon. Find out how he launched a massive race in the midst of bankrupt New York. Also -- our guest host Tanya Bielski-Braham takes us on a speedy tour of the course, from the Verrazano-Narrow Bridge to Tavern on the Green. www.boweryboyspodcast.com Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/boweryboys

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0:00.0	The Bowry Boys Episode 68, The New York City Marathon.
0:04.4	Hey, it's The Bowry Boys!
0:06.0	Hey!
0:08.0	The Bowry Boys is brought to you by EuroChipo.com.
0:12.0	EuroChipo editors personally visit and review the best budget hotels in Europe.
0:17.0	Now with hotels in New York City, on the web at EuroChipo.com.
0:22.0	Hello there and welcome to The Bowry Boys. My name is Greg Young.
0:25.0	Tom Lyres is not here this week, but I have a special guest,
0:29.0	so I'm not. It's just not going to be me yammering on about something.
0:33.0	We've brought back Tanya Bielski-Bram.
0:35.0	You may remember her from the Yankees podcast, Hello Tanya.
0:39.0	Welcome back.
0:40.0	Hi Greg, thank you so much for having me come back.
0:42.0	And it's another jock topic.
0:44.0	I know, which is so funny, because if my old gym teacher, Mrs. Cobb,
0:49.0	were listening, she would fall over.
0:52.0	Does she have iTunes?
0:54.0	But part of the reason that we brought her back is today's topic
0:58.0	is The New York City Marathon.
1:00.0	And this is going to be an episode in two halves.
1:03.0	The first half, of course, is we're going to do the history of The New York City Marathon
1:07.0	from its beginnings, 1970, all the way up to present.
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