Overview The New York Harbor Oyster Classic is in its 10th year, and it’s one of those races with a genuinely distinctive setup: a 5K on Governors Island, accessible only by ferry, with the Manhattan skyline and New York Harbor as your backdrop. Governors Island is car-free, scenic, and completely different from any road race…
This one is a community 5K through Brooklyn Bridge Park that benefits the Dock Street School’s ASD Horizon Program, which supports students with autism spectrum disorder. It’s a straightforward, no-frills event: show up, run the piers, support a good cause. The setting is hard to complain about. The course is an out-and-back along the Brooklyn…
Overview The Total Empower 5K is a community wellness race at Cedar Creek Park in Seaford, presented by Total Physical Therapy, Total Orthopedics & Sports Medicine, and Total Wellness — three organizations whose whole business is helping people move better and recover stronger. The event reflects that philosophy: it’s explicitly inclusive, framed around personal progress…
Overview T-Mac’s Run is a memorial 5K and walk at Baldwin Harbor Park organized in honor of Tyler McKenzie, who passed away in 2022 at 28 after a years-long battle with translocation renal cell carcinoma, a rare form of kidney cancer. Tyler grew up on Long Island, attended Syracuse University, and worked for the Brooklyn…
Overview The Rachel Quinn Children’s Foundation Annual Fundraiser 5.4K is a community race at Sunken Meadow State Park in Kings Park, benefiting the Rachel Quinn Children’s Foundation, which serves Long Island children and families. It’s a family-friendly event with a meaningful cause and a distinctive distance — 5.4K instead of the usual 5K, which comes…
Overview The Great Easter Basket is an NSRF race at Flushing Meadows Corona Park in Queens, and it’s one of those events that actually uses the park well. The course passes the Unisphere twice and circles the Fountain of the Planets, so you’re running through genuine New York City landmarks rather than just loops of…
Overview The US Coffee 4 Mile is a charity run along the Long Beach Boardwalk benefiting the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, specifically Team McIntyre. US Coffee, the local sponsor, donates all proceeds to LLS cancer research, so this one has a clear and genuine purpose behind it. The course runs the length of the Long…