NYC Half Marathon Sunday
The United Airlines NYC Half Marathon is set for Sunday, drawing thousands of runners and spectators along a city course with published maps and street‑closure plans [][]. Organizers have released route details and road‑closure guidance so participants and photographers can plan logistics across Manhattan this weekend [].
More than 30,000 runners are expected to compete), with the first waves slated to start around 7 a.m.) on Sunday, March 15, 2026. The course begins) on Washington Avenue near Sullivan Place/Prospect Park in Brooklyn and finishes) on West Drive in Central Park near 68th Street, taking runners across the Brooklyn Bridge and down the FDR before routing through Times Square as listed). City notices identify) embargoed streets that will affect local traffic, including Washington Avenue between Eastern Parkway and Empire Boulevard in Brooklyn and FDR Drive northbound between Robert F. Wagner Sr. Place and East 42nd Street in Manhattan, plus closures on 42nd Street and 7th Avenue up to West 59th/Central Park South. Race week features an expanded United Airlines NYC Half Expo at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center March 12–14 announced), NYRR is staging a Times Square Kids Run for 1,500 youth and an elite field with 27 Olympians and Paralympians reported), and organizers ask Wave 1 runners to arrive by 6:10 a.m. and Wave 2 by 6:35 a.m. for security checks and start‑area entry per the race advisory).
