The Course

For your safety, take fluids, fuel, and amenities only at official stations.

• Purified water will be available at official fluid stations every mile from mile 3 to mile 25 except miles 5, 7, and 9.
• Gatorade® Endurance Formula™ Lemon-Lime Flavor will be available at official fluid stations every mile from mile 3 to mile 25, except miles 5, 7, and 9.
• Fluids will be dispensed in compostable cups. There will be tables on both sides of the course. To avoid the bottleneck at the first table, get a cup from a later table. Please keep moving after you pick up your cup.
• Maurten Gels will be available at Gel Depots at miles 12 and 18 to help fuel you. Signage on the course will indicate the gel zones and flavors. Available flavors on the course will be Gel 100 and Caf 100.
• Bananas will be available at mile 21.

For the 2025 TCS New York City Marathon, there will be dedicated lactation spaces that provide pumping accommodations and amenities at the start village and finish line, as well as along the course at miles 8, 17, and 22. Manual and electric Medela breast pumps will also be available, giving participants easy options for pumping. Personal breast pumps will be transported from the start to the finish lactation tents. No expressed milk will be transported at this time.

Portable toilets (including wheelchair-accessible ones) are located at every mile beginning at mile 3.

• Medical aid stations are located approximately every mile starting at mile 3 and at the finish.
• Medical volunteers and supplies are available at all aid stations. If you're ill, injured, or need attention, stop at the nearest aid station.
• The NYRR medical team is equipped with Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) in the start and course medical tents, in ambulances along the course, and at post-finish medical tents to provide trained medical professionals with the tools they need in a life-threatening emergency.
• If you have a medical emergency at the marathon (including in the start or finish areas) call 866.705.6626 for the fastest medical response. Friends and family can call the Medical Information Hotline (855.697.7786) to ask about runners who have received medical assistance during the race.

• Mile markers are posted every mile, and kilometer signs are posted every 5 kilometers.
• All course clocks are set to correspond to wave 1.
• Timing mats are located at the start, every 5K, halfway (13.1 miles), mile 20, and the finish.

The TCS New York City Marathon course is closed to vehicular traffic during the race, allowing participants access to the streets. The course will reopen to vehicles on a rolling basis; the schedule of bridge and street closures and re-openings will be available soon. 

This schedule is designed to allow participants who can maintain a 16-minute-per-mile pace, based on the wave 5 start time, to complete the course on the streets. Participants who are not able to maintain this pace (based on the wave 5 start time) should be aware that fluid stations and other course amenities may not be available and that they may be asked to move to the sidewalks or board the sweep bus. A team of NYRR staff and volunteers will support those participants on the sidewalks.

Official finishers will be recorded through 10:00 p.m., regardless of their start time. These finishers will receive: 

• A finisher medal 
• An official event result listing
• 9+1 credit toward non-complimentary guaranteed entry to the 2026 TCS New York City Marathon 
• A star (or Six Star Medal, if eligible) in the Abbott World Marathon Majors Six Star Medal program

Participants crossing the finish line after 10:00 p.m. E.T. will not be recorded as official finishers and will not receive an official event result. These participants will receive a finisher medal. 

Sweep buses will follow the marathon route at approximately 16 minute-per-mile based on the final wave start time. These buses will transport participants who wish to drop out to the post-finish area. Please be aware that participants who board a sweep bus will not be able to cross the finish line and will not be recorded as official finishers.

• If you need medical assistance, report to a medical aid station.
• Your friends and family can track your progress by using the NYRR App Powered by Tata Consultancy Services.
• If you have not completed the course, do not go through the finish line, or you will be disqualified and barred from future TCS New York City Marathons.
• To claim your checked bag, enter Central Park West at 62nd Street and speak to an NYRR staff member. After 7:00 p.m., all unclaimed bags will be moved to the NYRR RUNCENTER featuring the New Balance Run Hub where they will be available for pickup on Marathon Monday, November 3 from 9:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.

On marathon morning, November 2, 2025, the New York City Department of Transportation will close streets along the course so that delivery trucks, ambulances, and New York Road Runners staff and volunteers can safely set up medical tents and water stations before the 2025 TCS New York City Marathon starts.

In coordination with various City Agencies, NO UNSANCTIONED BICYCLES WILL BE ALLOWED ON THE MARATHON COURSE ONCE IT IS CLOSED TO TRAFFIC THAT MORNING. This decision has been made to ensure everyone’s safety.

Anyone attempting to ride anywhere on the course ahead of the marathon starting in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn will be diverted and removed by the authorities.

We ask that everyone adhere to this restriction.