Overview The Queens 5K & 10K and Half Marathon takes place at Flushing Meadows Corona Park, staged near the Unisphere — which makes it one of the more iconic settings for a road race in the New York metro area. The park is massive, flat, and well-suited for racing, and the Unisphere backdrop gives it…
Overview The Oyster Bay Brew Run 5K is staged at Oyster Bay Brewing Company on Audrey Ave. and benefits the Matthew Fetzer Foundation. Oyster Bay is one of the nicer village settings for a race on the North Shore — compact, walkable, and close to the water — and finishing at a brewery is a…
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…
Overview The OMAC May Day 5K takes place at Main Beach in East Hampton, one of the more scenic race settings you’ll find on Long Island. Main Beach is a wide open Atlantic-facing beach, and a morning 5K there in early May has a certain quality to it — the season hasn’t started yet, the…
Overview Bridge the Gap is a community 5K out of Washington Heights and Inwood in upper Manhattan, organized by the Dyckman Run Club and the YM&YWHA of Washington Heights & Inwood. The name says it: the goal is connection — across backgrounds, across the neighborhood, across whatever it is that usually keeps people from showing…
Overview The Sea Cliff Fire Department puts on this 5K every year to raise money for one of Nassau County’s only fully volunteer Fire and EMS departments. That’s not a marketing line, it actually means something: the people who show up to protect Sea Cliff do it on their own time, for free, and this…
The Run for Hope is a celebration of the life of Hope Reichbach, a Brooklyn-born activist and civic leader who passed away in 2011 after working tirelessly for her community. Before she died, she worked on the campaign and in the office of Council Member Stephen Levin, pushing hard to make Brooklyn a better place…
The OG 5K is the annual race put on by OG Training Academy, a group fitness gym out of West Babylon that runs a free Sunday morning run club. If you’ve run with OG Run Club or trained at the gym, you already know the vibe: high energy, community-first, encouraging to people at every level….
Run With the Rams is a school community 5K and 1-Mile event hosted by Clarke MS/HS in Westbury. It’s a family-friendly race that draws students, faculty, and members of the wider East Meadow School District community, with proceeds split between supporting a Clarke community member or family in need and Clarke Athletics. It’s the kind…
Overview The Farmingdale Ram Run is organized by Farmingdale State College’s Health, Wellness, and Nutrition Club and benefits the FSC Alumni Association. It’s a campus race with a genuine community feel — students, alumni, faculty, staff, and local runners all mix together on a USATF certified course that winds around the FSC campus. The event…