Marathoners braved morning chills in the 40s to run in the 2008 New York Marathon this past Sunday, which sliced through several Brooklyn neighborhoods from Bay Ridge to Greenpoint.
While the leaders breezed by shortly after 10 a.m, heavy crowds of about 30,000 runners packed Manhattan Avenue for much of the morning until 1:30 p.m. By 2 p.m, officers of the 94th Precinct opened the streets and stragglers had their own police escorts to make sure they crossed the Pulaski Bridge into Queens.
Throughout the route, 120 bands entertained the crowd, including Iggy Videgan’s Missy Rogers Band, which played at the corner of Greenpoint and Manhattan Avenue.
“We actually made some Polish people smile,” Videgan said. “Unfortunately it wasn’t a cute girl, it was an old guy.”
