For the last several months, runners training for Sunday’s New York City Marathon have all been thinking about one thing: getting to the finish line.

It is now painted and ready to go. So is Manhattan runner Julie Pampuch.

“Every year I come and I watch myself, I visualize myself crossing the finish line, and every year I get choked up about it because of what it took to get here, to be able to get there,” Pampuch said.

What You Need To Know

This year, more than 55,000 runners will take on the iconic New York City Marathon course through the five boroughs

The city Department of Transportation began painting the 4-inch-wide blue line that guides runners through the course on Tuesday in Brooklyn and Queens

Street and other closures will begin early Sunday morning. The upper level of th

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