Overview
- Police say there are no specific credible threats and will field thousands of officers supported by Emergency Service, Mounted, K‑9, Harbor, Aviation and Bomb Squad units, with helicopters, drones and real-time social media monitoring.
- Bridge closures begin with the Verrazzano-Narrows upper level at 11 p.m. Saturday, then Sunday the lower level at 7 a.m., Queensboro at 6:30 a.m., Pulaski at 7:15 a.m., and Willis and Madison Avenue bridges at 7:30 a.m., reopening after runners pass.
- Start logistics set wheelchair racers just after 8 a.m., professional fields to follow, and the first wave of general runners at 9:10 a.m.
- Coverage includes pre-race programming at 7:00 a.m. on Channel 7, live race broadcast from 8:00 a.m. on Channel 7 and ESPN2, and a finish-line stream starting at 10:00 a.m. to help viewers find specific finishers.
- More than 50,000 runners will traverse the five-borough course from Staten Island to the Central Park finish, where spectators face bag checks and bans on weapons, coolers, oversized bags, chairs, umbrellas and personal drones.