Editing Queensboro Bridge (section)

=== Use during races ===
The Queensboro Bridge has been part of the [[New York City Marathon]] course since [[1976 New York City Marathon|1976]], when the marathon course traversed all five boroughs for the first time.<ref>{{cite web |last=Amdur |first=Neil |date=October 25, 1976 |title=New York's First Citywide Marathon Draws Some of World's Top Runners |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1976/10/25/archives/new-yorks-first-citywide-marathon-draws-some-of-worlds-top-runners.html |access-date=October 19, 2023 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=October 22, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231022014711/https://www.nytimes.com/1976/10/25/archives/new-yorks-first-citywide-marathon-draws-some-of-worlds-top-runners.html |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Rodale, Inc. p. 77">{{cite magazine |last=Monti |first=David |date=Oct 2008 |title=Sublime Climbs |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wMgDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA77 |magazine=Runner's World |publisher=Rodale, Inc. |page=77 |issn=0897-1706 |access-date=October 19, 2023 |archive-date=October 22, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231022014709/https://books.google.com/books?id=wMgDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA77 |url-status=live}}</ref> During the marathon, which happens every November, runners cross the Queensboro Bridge westbound toward Manhattan, then pass under the bridge at First Avenue.<ref name="Society Society 2008 p. 121">{{Harvnb|ps=.|Greater Astoria Historical Society|Roosevelt Island Historical Society|2008|page=121}}</ref> The bridge is approximately {{convert|15|mi}} from the beginning of the course on the [[Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge]]. The deck of the bridge was initially covered with carpeting for the 1976 marathon; the carpeting was not used after [[1977 New York City Marathon|1977]], when the bridge was repaved.<ref name="Rodale, Inc. p. 77" /> The bridge is also part of the course of the [[Five Boro Bike Tour]], which occurs every April; contestants traverse the bridge eastbound toward Queens.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hucCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA78 |title=April |date=October 4, 1982 |magazine=New York Magazine |publisher=New York Media, LLC |page=78 |language=en |issn=0028-7369 |access-date=October 19, 2023 |archive-date=October 22, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231022014709/https://books.google.com/books?id=hucCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA78 |url-status=live}}</ref> {{as of|2022}}, the Five Boro Bike Tour uses the northern upper-level roadway.<ref>{{cite web |last=Bocanegra |first=Michelle |title=Five Boro Bike Tour Returns: What You Need to Know About Street Closures |website=Gothamist |date=May 6, 2023 |url=https://gothamist.com/news/five-boro-bike-tour-returns-what-you-need-to-know-about-street-closures |access-date=October 19, 2023 |archive-date=October 22, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231022014710/https://gothamist.com/news/five-boro-bike-tour-returns-what-you-need-to-know-about-street-closures |url-status=live |postscript=none}}; {{cite web |last=Konig |first=Joseph |title=Street closures Sunday as Five Boro Bike Tour returns |website=Spectrum News NY1 |date=April 30, 2022 |url=https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/transit/2022/04/30/street-closures-sunday-as-five-boro-bike-tour-returns |access-date=October 19, 2023 |archive-date=October 22, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231022014710/https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/transit/2022/04/30/street-closures-sunday-as-five-boro-bike-tour-returns |url-status=live}}</ref>