Bloomberg’s an idiot because in keeping the event until the 11th hour then runners came to NYC from all over the world and now have nothing to do. As such they are taking up resources and wasting time in the area. Failure.
Bloomberg’s the silly ‘effing sock puppet in this fiasco. The real greedy narcissistic villains are the New York Road Runners, the local sponsors and organizers of the event. Despite being on the ground when the storm hit they’re the ones that assured their big bucks corporate sponsors and NYC gov that all would be right by race day. NYRR socks away a nice bit of change and prestige points in the runners world for this event, but they’re blind to the world outside.
The first NYC marathons were confined to Central Park with minimal disruption, if any, to normal NYC city life and transportation but the bucks started getting bigger along with their egos and so it grew becoming this big azzed silly media event with savy retailers, hoteliers, street vendors trying to seize the bucks these running rubes were willing to drop.
Try and remember when feel good causes, runs for the cure of whatever, weren’t the over hyped norm for these events. Ever see a balance sheet from any one of them that showed revenue and how much actually was disbursed to whatever cause?
As a cancer survivor I don’t recall waking up after surgery and saying, “well thank goodness for all those runners concerned with my well being. I’m feeling ever so much better knowing that they ran that marathon for me.”
I’ve got no beef with the runners doing the race in reasonable weather, just don’t get in our way, especially when disaster strikes and we need helping hands not prima donnas. Oh, and stop puking in our streets even in good times ‘cause you’re not up for the task at hand. It stinks the joint up.