Early morning. The first Sunday in November. Daylight Savings. On the Upper East Side, First Avenue is quiet. Fifth is empty. There’s a blue line painted down the middle of both. The shift in the city’s energy is palpable. But not eerie. It doesn’t stay calm for long.

On Staten Island, approximately 55,000 runners gather at the start line of the TCS New York City Marathon. The iconic race brings together the world’s fastest racers and your next-door neighbor—all to complete the same 26.2-mile route: from Fort Wadsworth on Staten Island, across the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, into Brooklyn, then Queens, across the 59th Street Bridge into Manhattan, up First Avenue into the Bronx, back into Manhattan via Fifth Avenue, and ending in Central Park in front of Tavern on the Green.

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