2018 New York City Marathon Photos

The first Sunday in November is a yearly love letter to New York City.

It takes the form of the New York City Marathon, which has crisscrossed all five boroughs since 1976, when roughly 2,000 people started the race and just over 1,500 finished.

This year, that love letter is being penned by 50,000 runners, 12,000 volunteers and hundreds of thousands of spectators dotting the 26.2-mile course.

To experience marathon day in New York is to see what a big-city race is capable of generating — joy, pain, misery, triumph and nirvana. This is what it looks like.

Police officers were out on the race course in the Bronx before the start of the race.

Runners took the Staten Island Ferry to the marathon start on Staten Island.

Runners from Florida relaxed on pool rafts in Staten Island before the race began.

Trees in Fort Wadsworth before the marathon.

The elite women, including Shalane Flanagan in pink, at the starting line.

Manuela Schär of Switzerland raced through Brooklyn. Schär has won three major marathons this year. Andy von Salis cheered and waved the Swiss flag in Brooklyn.

Wheelchair racers in Brooklyn.

The elite women crossed the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge.

Spectators lined the course in Brooklyn. A fan with a political message in Brooklyn.

Shura Kitata and the elite men ran through Brooklyn.

Daniel Romanchuk won the men’s wheelchair division.

Runners crossed the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge.

Women’s winner Mary Keitany ran alone at the front of the women’s race for much of the course.

Lelisa Desisa of Ethiopia won the men’s race.

Sylvie Marie from France high-fived a spectator in Brooklyn.

Fans cheered in the Bronx.

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