NYCRUNS
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NYCRUNS, sometimes styled NYCRuns and formally New York City Runs, Inc. is a private for-profit New York City race organization company founded by Steve Lastoe that produces races throughout the five boroughs.[1][2] The company averages three dozen races that serve 50,000 runners each year.[3]
Among its most well known are the Empire State Building Run-Up and the Brooklyn Marathon.[4][5][6] NYCRUNS won't be hosting its Brooklyn Marathon in 2024 but hosted its Brooklyn Half Marathon on April 28, 2024. As a result of a 2024 lawsuit filed by New York Road Runners, NYCRUNS was forced to change the name of its Brooklyn Half Marathon to the NYCRuns Brooklyn Experience Half Marathon.[7]
From 2011 to 2016 the company operated the Yonkers Marathon, the second oldest in the United States.[8][9] In August 2020, it hosted New York City's first in-person race following the COVID-19 shutdown.[10]
