NYC MARATHON | Running through time: How New York Road Runners became what it is today

In the city that never stops moving with more running clubs than ever before, runners from all over the world come to the most anticipated race — The TCS New York Marathon.

From Fort Wadsworth on Staten Island, crossing the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, runners pass through all five boroughs of New York City to the finish line in Central Park. But behind those thousands of people gathering all together is one organization that has kept the city running, quite literally, for more than six decades: New York Road Runners.

What began in 1958 as a small run club with forty men in Macombs Dam Park in the Bronx has since grown into an institution that produces sixty adult and youth races annually, including the TCS New York City Marathon.

“A lot of things are cyclical,” said Ted Metellus, NYRR’s