Nearly 400 runners amassed in Prospect Park for the first Brooklyn Marathon since 1909.
Update: John Paul Montes, 24, of Carroll Gardens, won the marathon, with a time of 2 hours, 43 minutes, according to NY1. Kelly Gillen, 29, of Manhattan was the female winner, finishing in 3 hours, 14 minutes. In the wee hours of Sunday morning, while much of Brooklyn was still sleeping, the borough's hardcore runners were awake, preparing for a marathon in their territory. "This is my turf!" said first-time marathoner and Park Slope resident Mary Audia. "I run here every weekend." Or, as Paul Nelson of the Prospect Park Alliance put it: "It's Brooklyn! You get to sleep in your own bed!" The inaugural Brooklyn Marathon, held in Prospect Park and organized by Steve Lastoe of NYCruns.com, had nearly 400 runners registered. And though …
A conversation with Jim Knipfel, the Brooklyn-based author and columnist.
To some, a monster is an imaginary animal. To others, like Jim Knipfel, the author of The Blow-Off, a new novel, which hit shelves this week, monsters have a more tangible human form. The Blow-Off is a novel about monsters imaginary, real, human and beast. Knipfel, who has solidified a cult following through his column “Slackjaw,” which gained notoriety in the New York Press where it ran from 1993-2006, is at it again with a troma-esque tale about a Brooklyn-based reporter who blamed a mugging on Bigfoot (who lives in the Gowanus) in a local rag’s crime blotter. The news spirals out of control and soon Brooklyn’s citizens are hysterical and mad, and take to the streets to chase down this made-up beast of the toxic canal. Before the …
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6:50 am on Monday, November 21, 2011
actually it made 2 loops of the lake and then 6 loops of the entire park follows by a loop of the lake again. more ›