Parks get run for their money.ING and New York Road Runners New York Road Runners (NYRR), founded in 1958 with 47 members, has grown into the foremost running organization, with a membership of 40,000. NYRR conducts more than 100 events each year, including races, classes, clinics, and lectures. announced the names of this year s ING Run for Something Better athletes. The runners will be competing not only to win the ING New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. Miwathon on November 7, but also to support New York City Department of Parks and Recreation The City of New York Department of Parks & Recreation is the department of government of the City of New York responsible for maintaining the city's parks system, preserving and maintaining the ecological diversity of the city's natural areas, and furnishing recreational and City Parks Foundation City Parks Foundation is a New York City-based non-profit dedicated to the improvement of urban parks and neighborhoods through programming in parks, including athletic instruction for youth and seniors, performing arts, and education programs, all offered free of charge, and efforts to advance track and field programming. Linked to their finishing times in the marathon, ING will donate funds on each athlete's behalf to a designated New York City park. The four runners are Benita Johnson, Australia; Deena Kastor, United States; Lornah Kiplagat, The Netherlands, and; Modal Perez, Mexico. New York City Department of Parks and Recreation Commissioner Adrian Benepe (pictured) linked the runners to Corporal Thompson Park, Staten Island; East River Park, Manhattan; Keith L. Williams Park, Queens and; Macomb's Dam Park, Bronx. |
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