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CBS News
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- CBS News
NYC Summer Streets 2025 start this Saturday. Maps show which blocks will be car-free.
New York City's Summer Streets program returns this weekend, starting in Queens and Staten Island. Several blocks will be shut down to vehicle traffic on Saturday for people to enjoy car-free time outside. Visitors can expect live entertainment, fitness and art activities for the whole family. Lyft is also offering free Citi Bike day passes with the promo code: LYFTSUMMER25. The city's Summer Streets program has been around since 2008 and it continues to expand. This year, the Manhattan location will stretch the entire length of the borough, from Inwood to the Brooklyn Bridge. The first weekend kicks off this Saturday from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. Organizers say it's rain or shine. Manhattan is up next on August 2, 9 and 16, followed by Brooklyn and the Bronx on August 23. The Summer Streets are in addition to what the city calls "Open Streets" throughout the year. Vernon Boulevard will be closed from 44th Drive in Long Island City to 30th Road in Astoria. This location will feature performances from several cultural organizations, as well as yoga and Zumba classes. There will also be a "NYRR Start Line Series," where people can run or walk a 2.5-mile course, and public art will be on display. The following streets will be closed to vehicle traffic: The Staten Island location is along Forest Avenue in West Brighton. The roadway will be closed from Elizabeth Street to Bard Avenue. This location will also have performances from different groups, including the Staten Island Musical Steppers and Richmond County Orchestra, as well as public art. These streets will be closed around the area: CLICK HERE for the complete Summer Streets maps and more information.
Fashion Network
17-07-2025
- Business
- Fashion Network
Tag Heuer named official timekeeper of the TCS New York City Marathon
Swiss luxury watchmaker Tag Heuer has been named the official timekeeper of the TCS New York City Marathon, marking its first involvement with the race since 2016. As part of the renewed partnership, Tag Heuer will be integrated throughout race week and race day, with branded official clocks at the start line, on lead vehicles, along the course, and at the finish line. Runners and fans can also expect to see a Tag Heuer countdown clock at the TCS New York City Marathon Expo and branded gifting for the race's professional champions. Notably, winners of the professional athlete fields will receive a Tag Heuer Connected smartwatch. The watch, tailored for athletes, features advanced metrics like GPS, heart rate monitoring, and VO2 max estimations. The partnership also extends to two additional NYRR events: the United Airlines NYC Half and the Abbott Dash to the Finish Line 5K, reinforcing Tag Heuer's continued support of elite athletes and amateur competitors.
Fashion Network
17-07-2025
- Business
- Fashion Network
Tag Heuer named official timekeeper of the TCS New York City Marathon
Swiss luxury watchmaker Tag Heuer has been named the official timekeeper of the TCS New York City Marathon, marking its first involvement with the race since 2016. As part of the renewed partnership, Tag Heuer will be integrated throughout race week and race day, with branded official clocks at the start line, on lead vehicles, along the course, and at the finish line. Runners and fans can also expect to see a Tag Heuer countdown clock at the TCS New York City Marathon Expo and branded gifting for the race's professional champions. Notably, winners of the professional athlete fields will receive a Tag Heuer Connected smartwatch. The watch, tailored for athletes, features advanced metrics like GPS, heart rate monitoring, and VO2 max estimations. The partnership also extends to two additional NYRR events: the United Airlines NYC Half and the Abbott Dash to the Finish Line 5K, reinforcing Tag Heuer's continued support of elite athletes and amateur competitors.
Yahoo
04-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
The New York City Marathon's real heroes finish after dark
Final Finishers is a new short film about the back of the New York City Marathon pack. Photograph: New York Road Runners (NYRR) Studio and Tribeca Studios Drive To Survive, the seminal Netflix docuseries which introduced a new generation to Formula One, also unleashed a wave of sports shows that swept across virtually every streaming platform. Many follow the same playbook, carefully painting a behind-the-scenes portrait of elite athletes pursuing greatness – from cyclists confronting the steepest climbs of the Tour de France and surfers hunting vast waves to tennis players vying for grand slams and track sprinters for medals. Advertisement 'That's kind of boring,' Michael Ring says of the genre. 'It's just another guy who figured out what he was best at in middle school, and didn't go to high school with normal kids, and maybe went to college, and dropped out and became a millionaire tennis player.' Ring, 61, is among a handful of amateur runners who appear in Final Finishers, a new short film about the back of the New York City Marathon pack. Many hours after the winners cross the line each year, the sun goes down over Central Park, the crowds thin, and race organizers start to hand out glow sticks. Those still out on the course, working their way through the last few grueling miles in the dark, are drawn in by the hum of a party at the finish. Turning away from record breakers and podium chasers, the film celebrates everyday runners: those more likely to dwell on whether, rather than when, they will finish 26.2 miles. Extraordinary stories are not exclusively found at the front of the pack. Advertisement Olympians including Meb Keflezighi, Conner Mantz, Clayton Young and Beverly Ramos were in the audience in June when Final Finishers premiered at the Tribeca Festival. 'Getting to the finish line, no matter how many hours it takes you, is life changing,' Keflezighi, who won the NYC Marathon in 2009 and Boston Marathon in 2014, tells the Guardian. 'Everybody has a story.' Take Ring. In 2014, he was diagnosed with a rare autoimmune condition. 'I went from fine to paralyzed in a couple of days,' he says. Over many months he slowly, but surely, progressed from a wheelchair to crutches, and then walked with a cane. In time he returned to running, too, with the help of ankle braces, and finished the 2017 NYC Marathon – the first of many post-recovery – in just under 10 hours. Increasingly, major marathons have moved to make sure runners who finish with such times are not overlooked. In London, for example, tailwalkers set out after the final starter begins the race, and the finish line stays open until midnight. Still, for those following such races, and the wider sport, much of the coverage remains pinned around those in the lead pack. The makers of Final Finishers are betting viewers will find runners far behind just as, if not more, inspiring. Advertisement Runners featured in the film 'are the most relatable to so many people out there, who don't see themselves as a quote unquote runner,' said Rob Simmelkjaer, CEO of New York Road Runners, the organization behind the New York City Marathon. 'They can start to see themselves as runners in a way that watching someone win the marathon in two hours and five minutes is not going to make them feel they can be a runner. Because they know they can never do that.' Distribution plans for Final Finishers have yet to be announced. With another short film in the works, New York Road Runners recently launched East 89th St Productions, a production studio. It hopes to produce a docuseries, too. Will a streaming platform, or broadcaster, bite? The wave of professional-focused sport docuseries appears to have crested. The new series of Tour de France: Unchained on Netflix will be the last. Six Nations: Full Contact, also on Netflix, and Make or Break, an Apple series following World Surf League stars, have been canceled. But as it draws up its plans for films and series, New York Road Runners is not rushing to put more elite athletes on screen. This has, at least at first, caused a little confusion. Advertisement 'As we went out and talked to a lot of production companies out there, there was a lot of that that came back to us. It was, 'Oh, well, you know, who are the stars?' and 'are you going to get [Eliud] Kipchoge?',' says Simmelkjaer. 'And we don't necessarily subscribe to that idea, that it has to be the stars.' 'We're definitely starting to see the tide changing,' claimed Martinus Evans, founder of Slow AF Run Club. 'I don't want to say it like this, but I'm gonna say it like this: people are not necessarily excited about elite athletes' stories. People are not excited about people who spent their life running, and they're expected to get first place.' A doctor who told Evans, 38, that he needed to lose weight laughed when said he wanted to run a marathon. 'Instead of punching the doctor like I wanted to, I bought running shoes that day,' he says in the film, which documents how he ultimately realized his goal, despite the doubters, and 'cried like a fucking baby' at the finish. 'What's more exciting, and what's a lot more interesting, is the underdog: somebody you did not expect to be out there,' Evans tells the Guardian. 'Somebody that you looked at and was like, 'Oh no, he's not going to run a marathon' – like me. But I ran eight of them. And I'm training for number nine.'
CBS News
28-06-2025
- Entertainment
- CBS News
NYC Pride Weekend gets underway with festivities ahead of Sunday's March
New York City's Pride Weekend is in full swing with the final preps underway for Sunday's March through Greenwich Village. Over 1 million people are expected to line the streets, and heavy security and street closures will be in place. Thousands participate in annual NYRR Pride Run Racers were up early Saturday morning as the 44th Annual New York Road Runners Pride Run brought an estimated 8,000 runners to Central Park. Proceeds benefited Lambda Legal, a nonprofit working to secure rights for LGBTQ+ people and those living with HIV. "Running brings people together, and we love the fact that this event brings both allies and members of the community together to celebrate Pride, to let people know that they are seen and heard and part of the running community," NYRR CEO Rob Simmelkjaer said. Lifelong LGBTQ+ activist Mark Segal stops by visitor center Saturday afternoon in Greenwich Village, the Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center on Christopher Street celebrated its first anniversary with a special guest – Mark Segal. The lifelong LGBT activist was there the night of the Stonewall Inn riots in 1969, and in 1973, he became famous for interrupting a live broadcast of the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite and holding up a sign reading, "Gays protest CBS prejudice." "It created visibility for us. Sixty million people saw that," Segal said. NYC Pride March steps off Sunday CBS News New York Saturday's events are all leading up to Sunday's massive Pride March. It kicks off at noon on Fifth Avenue near Madison Square Park before heading west, snaking its way through Greenwich Village and the Stonewall Inn on Christopher Street, then heading north up Seventh Avenue and ending around 15th Street. This year's theme is "Rise Up: Pride in Protest," marking 56 years since the Stonewall Riots. That is the reason Heritage of Pride calls it the Pride March, instead of a parade.
