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NYC will flip the streets from Halloween to the marathon in just a few hours. Here’s how

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NYC will flip the streets from Halloween to the marathon in just a few hours. Here’s how

New York City is gearing up for another big weekend. This year, there are just eight hours between the end of the Halloween parade and the start of the marathon. Organizers of the former expect 80,000 participants in costume and 2 million spectators, while the latter will host 60,000 runners and 2.5 million fans on the sidelines cheering them on. The two routes don’t intersect, but the streets will be unusually busy. And preparing them for the crowds and their aftermath will involve an army of hundreds of sanitation trucks and workers.

“I think the great thing about New York City is that there’s something going on every single day of the year,” Gregory Anderson, the Department of Sanitation commissioner, tells Fast Company. “And so while it’s unusual for us to have Halloween on Saturday followed right by marathon Sunday—and particularly with the streak of good weather we’ve had, we expect to have huge crowds at both events—we’re used to doing multiple things at the same time.”

This summer, for example, the July Fourth holiday weekend overlapped with World Cup watch parties, Knicks’ NBA Finals games, and Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s wedding, Anderson adds. “So we’re used to it, we’re ready for it, and we’re just excited to be there alongside New Yorkers as they’re celebrating whatever it is they’re celebrating,” he says.

This weekend, the work entails two roles: public safety and cleanup. In fact, the process has already begun. For the past week Sanitation has been working with the city Department of Transportation to sweep the marathon route , which begins in Staten Island, then crosses into Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, the Bronx, and back into Manhattan.


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