Does anyone know the NY marathon route thru Brooklyn.--the actual streets?

Question

The official site map is not specific enough--need to know where spectators can go. thanks

Answer 1

Miles 3-8: Bay Ridge, Brooklyn to Fort Greene, Brooklyn
The runners, still blissfully energetic at this stage, begin settling into their rhythm over a five-mile straight shot up Brooklyn's boulevard-esque Fourth Avenue -- from 92nd Street to Flatbush Avenue. It's also one of the best segments for spectators, roomy and easily reachable, with the New York City subway's N/R line making stops approximately every 10 blocks along Fourth Avenue and as far south as 95th Street. From the predominantly Irish and Italian neighborhood of Bay Ridge, where John Travolta did his strutting and shimmying in Saturday Night Fever, the course crosses the Gowanus Expressway at 65th Street and enters Sunset Park, home to large Hispanic and Asian communities. Picturesque Greenwood Cemetery, final resting place for Edward R. Murrow, Samuel Morse, powerful politicians and notorious gangsters, is just a block off the route between 36th and 24th Streets. Pushing further north, the race passes through the more gentrified Park Slope, a haven for young professionals who streamed out of high-priced Manhattan in the 1990s in search of more affordable housing. As a result, high-rise condos and chain stores have sprouted up in place of the old-school brownstones and mom-and-pops. For much of the Fourth Avenue segment, the Williamsburg Savings Bank Tower in Fort Greene -- Brooklyn's tallest building -- looms in the distance, and the runners finally reach it at the eight-mile mark. The men's and women's courses, which had run separately along opposite sides of Fourth Avenue, also merge at this point, and with several subway lines serving the area, it's a prime location in terms of accessibility for spectators.


Miles 9-13: Clinton Hill, Brooklyn to Pulaski Bridge
The racers leave Fourth Avenue behind and begin zig-zagging toward Queens, heading northeast into Bedford-Stuyvesant on Lafayette Avenue and then making a turn onto winding Bedford Avenue. After the short trek through "Bed-Stuy" -- New York's largest African-American neighborhood -- the route crosses Flushing Avenue into Williamsburg, where a large community of Hassidic Jews embraces the language and dress of its religious tradition. Further north, the race also passes the utilitarian-looking Williamsburg Bridge, which connects Brooklyn with Manhattan's lower east side. Continuing along Bedford Avenue, the runners reach Greenpoint, the northernmost and final neighborhood they'll visit in Brooklyn. The sizeable Polish population in the area prompted the nickname "Little Poland," and the Pulaski Bridge to Queens was named after Polish soldier and Revolutionary War commander Kazimierz Pulaski. The bridge itself spans Newtown Creek, connecting Greenpoint and Long Island City, and marks the halfway point of the marathon. The first male and female runners to cross it receive the Pulaski Bridge Award from the Polish embassy.

Answer 2

Brooklyn to Manhattan is usually a short trip on one of over a dozen subway lines that connect the two boroughs. There are bad places to be in Brooklyn, but a lot of desirable areas as well. I won't list neighborhoods because basically all of them have good and bad areas except the really high end places. Like Carroll Gardens and Dyker Heights. Mixed neighborhoods that could offer you a good value would include Park Slope, though that one is pretty safe and kind of skewed toward the upper end, Sunset Park, Bay Ridge, Bensonhurst, Crown Heights and Williamsburg. Bedford Stuyvesant was an area that was long regarded as dangerous, but lately it is becoming gentrified and the quality of the area might be such that the rents have not caught up yet. Whatever area you pick, look closely at the exact area that you will be living in.