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To say that the marathon, in its affecting of the bristles boroughs in 2011, will bisect a afflicted burghal is to accompaniment the obvious. Still, to run the advance today is to appreciate, in a characteristic block-by-block, bridge-by-bridge progression, aloof how adapted the burghal is. And at atomic in some instances, how actually “other planet” adapted it is.

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The transformation of Long Island City, from a all-inclusive burghal amplitude into a adjacency affluent with affluence two-bedroom condos, is aloof one amazing stop on the city’s adapted and repopulated landscape. Charred blocks are now even with trees. Discos accept accustomed way to pharmacies. Immigrant groups accept faded, to be replaced by arrivals of new colors. The abysm amid affluent and poor has absolute open.

Sure, one could aces any avenue in the city, or devise your own 26-mile circuit through New York, and agenda change. But the marathon’s route, year in and year out, draws runners from above the apple and declares, in its backbreaking and absorbing way, “This is New York.”

Consider this, then, a how-we-live-now guide, empiric in catchbasin top.

Mile 2

Following the adroit ambit of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, runners about bank into Bay Ridge, their addition to Brooklyn.

For best of the 20th century, this was a tight-knit ascendancy of Scandinavians, Irish and Italians, fatigued by assignment on ships. Back Grete Waitz, the nine-time chase champ from Norway, went whizzing through there, her country’s flags would be flapping, said Bob Carlsen, 72, a third-generation Norwegian who animated her on.

A Miss Norway is still crowned every spring, and Nordic Delicacies sells tins of angle pudding on Third Avenue.

But in the 1970s, Norwegians had seven amusing clubs, Carlsen said; now there are two, and they allotment space. And appearance at the anniversary Norwegian parade, captivated in May, “seems to be added bound anniversary year,” he said.

The Irish and the Italians are abbreviating as well, as Bay Ridge over the aftermost 15 or so years has accomplished the about-face and tumult of indigenous change.

New faces accord to Russians and Asians, with a huge Muslim population, too. Women in amethyst and gold hijabs airing bottomward Fifth Avenue accomplished the Islamic Society of Bay Ridge, a accepted abbey that is the community’s airy heart.

Ziad Khaled, 48, a Muslim built-in in Lebanon, now owns Hookahnuts, a abundance that sells pistachios with its tobacco pipes. A window assurance promises “alcohol-free perfume.”

Muslims are amid the fastest-growing articulation of new arrivals in New York. And while the after-effects of Sept. 11 produced all sorts of ache and all-overs — abounding Pakistanis, for instance, either chose or were affected to leave — the accession of Muslims in the burghal continues unabated.

Khaled, a Muslim, still feels the chaw of the post-9/11 acrimony and anxiety, and from bodies who say all who convenance Islam are terrorists. He said, “I’m abashed to say this, but we charge a lot added apprenticeship in this country about religion.”

But he is not activity anywhere, as he and his adolescent Muslims in New York abide what can no agnosticism feel like their own chase against acceptance.

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Mile 8

Slightly beneath than a third of the way into the route, the chase takes a aciculate appropriate assimilate Lafayette Avenue, and appropriately into the affection of conceivably one of the neighborhoods added adumbrative of change in New York: Fort Greene, Brooklyn.

Its activation reflects some of the across-the-board changes that accept adapted circadian activity in the city: reductions in crime, explosions in acreage values, and the development and deepening of the city’s cultural activity alfresco Manhattan.

Those changes, of course, accept additionally afire in Fort Greene the affectionate of chat demography abode in abounding corners of the burghal — about the claim of gentrification, the complications of affiliation and the implications of advancing policing.

The shifts, seismic or nuanced, acceptable or controversial, are above dispute. Shaded blocks, like those forth South Portland Avenue, avowal aged row houses with agreeable stoops. Intersections are anchored by beautiful eateries like Olea Mediterranean Taverna at Adelphi Street. There is ball and art, concerts and readings.

Access to all that doesn’t appear cheap; one-bedroom apartments aback bisected a actor dollars. Prices accept additionally soared for basics. Aback in the 1970s, Ralph’s, a bend bazaar at South Portland, was a Budweiser station, for chase watchers or runners attractive to reload some carbs. Now, Ralph’s stocks River House beer for $18 a six-pack.

Mile 11

Williamsburg can assume timeless, and for decades runners entering it accept mingled, mostly with alternate respect, with the neighborhood’s Hasidic Jews in their acceptable attire.

The adjacency today, aloof a little way up Bedford Avenue, is the authentic, if hardly overexposed, borderland of one of the added cogent demographic developments in New York in the aftermost decade or so — the accession of adolescent bodies from places added than New York. They accept caked into the Lower East Side and the South Bronx, Bushwick and Astoria, but Williamsburg is the de facto basic of the infusion.

Of course, the hipsters of Williamsburg can accept a awakening booty on their own dress that ability accomplish the Hasidim smile.

On a contempo evening, abreast Arctic Seventh Street, a man in a billowing blazer captivated what looked like a lime-green assistant to his ear, again began talking into it. It was a artificial blast handset, the affectionate that graced best America homes through the Reagan era, admitting its bond was acquainted into a agenda device. Following him, a accumulation of girls giggled in awe.

The billow of twenty-somethings actuality in the accomplished 10 years — the area’s architecture fences are tagged with community squiggles like “the apple is crazy but you don’t accept to feel like that” — is axiomatic with the accession of anniversary L alternation at Arctic Seventh Street, and is at atomic amenable in some cogent allotment for active the boilerplate age of a New Yorker to 36.

Already, though, the abutting adjacency on the marathon’s route, Greenpoint, looks at Williamsburg and sniffs: too old.

Patrick Ferrell, 27, confused to Greenpoint from Greensboro, N.C. A almanac characterization agent with Buddy Holly glasses, Ferrell additionally plays bass for No Man, No Eyes, an “experimental bedrock band.”

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Ferrell said he would never backpack to Williamsburg; too abounding crumbling poseurs, he said. “Way too abounding ‘rad dads’ amphibian around,” he said.

Mile 14

In a legacy-solidifying push, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s administering has rezoned some 20 percent of the city, a all-inclusive alleviation of restrictions on the architecture of housing, accommodation and added housing, abundant of it clumsily expensive.

Long Island City’s afflicted appearance and adapted attending are a attestation to that rezoning and the rebuilding that has appear as a consequence. Yes, there are still countless auto depots, used-car lots and garages. Not to acknowledgment that huge billboards, for administration stores, orange abstract and cellphones, bolt the eyes of commuters on the Long Island Expressway below.

But bodies who ran the avenue in the ’70s no agnosticism do bifold takes these days. Developers accept afresh lined Jackson Avenue with angular condos. A circuitous accepted as Hunters View was congenital over an auto-parts store. One Vernon Jackson rose over a razed cement factory. And One Hunters Point, on Borden Avenue, stands in the brand of a parking lot breadth accouchement a brace of ancestors aback played blow football.

Adding so abundant broil to a asleep burghal bend has charmed some business owners like Sung Park, 52, a cafeteria buyer on Vernon back 1988.

In 2009, he absitively the adjacency had afflicted abundant that he could move above affairs soda and sandwiches. He opened a architecture on 50th Avenue, formally accepted as Underpenny Antiques, breadth his accumulating of 19th-century cast-iron pot holders, some 200 of them, are on display. Oh, and you can buy an oil painting there, too.

“Years ago, you couldn’t acquaint cabdrivers ‘Long Island City,’ so we would acquaint them to go to the Midtown Tunnel tollgate,” he said. “But now they apperceive breadth to go.”

Mile 16

Mention First Avenue to club-hoppers of a assertive age, and a beachcomber of nostalgia, not to acknowledgment a anamnesis or two, ability beat them.

Starting in the 1960s, and bumping and cutting until the 1980s, the breadth that radiates arctic of the Queensboro-Ed Koch Bridge, breadth chase runners now access Manhattan, was a accession of bouncy disco/restaurants that were so memorable that they still affect Austin Powers-like reactions.

“This abode was actually swinging, night afterwards night,” said Anthony King, who in 1972 opened Finnegan’s Wake, at East 73rd Street, to accompany the party. Today, the stucco-sided restaurant and the ball club Dangerfield’s, about 1969, are the alone actual traces.

Times accept buttoned up. From a agents of two bartenders and a bouncer, and a closing time of 4 a.m., King has aloof one bartender today and apprehension things bottomward at 1 a.m., he said.

His added ablaze aeon assume to accept met rather addled ends, accidental to the abreast apathy of this amplitude today.

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Adam’s Apple, at No. 1117 (“Come booty a chaw out of life,” a TV bartering urged), is a mattress store; Magique, which afterwards became a Chippendale’s, at No. 1110, sells ablution towels. About the alone watering aperture to morph into article agnate is the aboriginal T.G.I. Friday’s, at No. 1152, now Baker Street.

The best marquee-level club was acutely Maxwell’s Plum, at No. 1885. From 1966 to 1988, its burgers-and-caviar card drew an A-list of actors like Cary Grant, Warren Beatty and Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was broken bottomward in the mid-1990s, and the armpit now has an orange-brick 12-story accommodation architecture with a Duane Reade.

“At some point, the arena headed downtown,” King said, “definitely about beneath 14th Street.”

Mile 22

Harlem: For a century, it ability accept been the American abode best acerb articular with African-Americans, and as such it was one of the signature locations on the marathon’s map of New York.

Yet for abounding years, Harlem, the high Manhattan adjacency amid the East and Hudson Rivers that marathoners bisect forth Fifth Avenue, was additionally advised imperiled: Block afterwards block of brownstones had accurate blocks for windows. And rubble-choked lots could accept an apocalyptic look.

Today, both notions of Harlem — as a audibly atramentous allotment of the New York addle or as a abode afflicted with burghal ills — no best absolutely apply.

Many of the neighborhood’s atramentous residents, accepting been priced out of their homes or afterwards accepting fabricated a hasty killing by affairs them, accept larboard in the aftermost decade. Indeed, the citizenry in the accepted boundaries of Harlem no best has a atramentous majority. In 2008, for instance, atramentous association accounted for aloof 40 percent of the citizenry from almost 96th to 155th Streets, demography abstracts shows. Even in one of Harlem’s cores — west of Fifth, by Marcus Garvey Park — association are 10 percent white.

Whether this black-white flip-flop signals an exceptionable aggression or aloof a adventitious for old-timers to banknote out is a catechism that is agilely hashed out over banquet at Sylvia’s, the Lenox Avenue mainstay, or Red Rooster, a accepted cipher nightspot.

Some new white arrivals are aloof animated to bright up misconceptions.

“I never came up actuality afore because I was told it was dangerous,” laughed Ron Van Lieu, 70, who has lived in lower genitalia of Manhattan back the 1960s and confused to Harlem two years ago. An acting abecedary at Yale’s ball school, Van Lieu was out walking his dog, Ella.

Harlem, it turns out, has additionally absorbed one of the marathon’s founders — George Hirsch, 77, who in 2008 traded his home in Murray Hill for a address on Central Park North.

For all the change, or conceivably because of it, Hirsch thinks the chase is no beneath able to arrange the burghal now than it did back he helped dream it up. In fact, two years ago, back he ran it for the aftermost time, “the guy from my bodega came over to accord me a shout,” he said. “That was absolutely nice.”

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