NYC Reopens
Banana Suits, Selfies and Subway Challenges: NYC’s Virtual Races Are Hot
No mass starts, no official routes and no Porta Potties. New Yorkers are running in virtual road races like never before.
A person runs along the East River Running Path in between the Manhattan Bridge and Brooklyn Bridge in lower Manhattan.
Photographer: Angus Mordant/BloombergEditor’s Note: No city is more important to America’s economy than New York, and none has been hit harder by the coronavirus. “NYC Reopens” examines life in the capital of capitalism as the city takes its first halting steps toward a new normal.
For New York City’s legion of runners, the mass starts might be gone, but not the races.