Geoffrey Mutai of Kenya set a new course record in the ING New York City Marathon on Sunday, November 6. He finished at 2:05:06, breaking the old record by nearly three minutes.
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Firehiwot Dado of Ethiopia won the women's division in her first running of New York's marathon, with a time of 2:23:15.
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Runners make their way up 1st Avenue in Manhattan. The 26.2-mile race cuts through New York's five bouroughs.
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New York Times photographer Joao Silva finishes the marathon on Sunday. Silva lost both his legs last year covering the war in Afghanistan.
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Runners cross the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge toward Brooklyn on Sunday.
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The race had 47,107 runners this year. Only 127 people participated in the first event in 1970.
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A runner in a full-body spandex suit takes part in Sunday's race.
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A runner wearing rabbit eats passes through Manhattan.
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A participant cools off as volunteers hand out water to racers as they pass by.
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Runners make their way through Queens on Sunday. The annual race originally looped Central Park but expanded to the city's five boroughs in 1976.
