The New York Marathon entrants list is posted. Based on an examination of a portion of the list (and a little help from an Excel spreadsheet), I'd say that about 3,000 Brooklyn residents (give or take a couple of hundred) applied for this year's marathon (out of about 105,000 applicants).
So, how many people from Brooklyn got in the race? Many of those are probably running, given that many likely qualified using the nine local races. (And I'm sure some folk did the lottery). Well, of the 72 entrants from the Prospect Park Track Club, 54, or 25 percent, got in. Not all of them live in Brooklyn, and obviously there's a fair amount of possible error.
So let's say ... 2,000 people from Brooklyn are eligible to run this year's NYC Marathon. And of that total, figure attrition of about 25 percent (i.e. people who defer to next year, just don't run, etc.) Again, give or take a couple of hundred, that leaves about 1,500 who will be running. That's a lot of people to be cheering for in November!
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