NYC Marathon officials start painting blue line
Runners in the New York Marathon cross the Verrazano Bridge at the start of the race. Credit: Newsday/Michael E. Ach
Sixty-five gallons of blue paint.
That’s what it’ll take to apply a blue line charting the 26-mile route of Sunday’s New York City Marathon. The line will be followed by about 43,000 runners from all 50 states and more than 100 countries.
City officials and race organizers held a news conference Wednesday at the Central Park finish line to discuss the race. Then they picked up paint rollers to symbolically start the job on the pavement.
The real work on the 4-inch-wide blue line begins Thursday evening.
City Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan says her department also is making sure the runners encounter "a smooth road" — not the potholes her department is constantly filling.
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