I agree. Cancel it this year and help your citizens, Nanny. Runners would be disappointed, but they'll get over it. Some neighborhoods would be lucky to get back to normal before next year's marathon.

Surely a bunch of neurotic joggers racing for bragging rights ranks in importance long after people's lives. It's flu season and it's getting colder at night.

Hasn't there been enough misery because of the storm? Does Bloomberg really need to pamper his short man's complex with more officious announcements that he's in charge?

Did any of you see that Kathleen Parker tweeted "I'm betting lots are thinking President Bloomberg this morning". (after the first Bloomberg press conference) What is it with the elites? If it looks good, that's all that matters? Bloomberg is botching this!

Author of this editorial for mayor of New York! Bloomberg is nuts for going ahead with the marathon. Those runners who had nonrefundable tickets to NYC should be offered the chance to 'run' food up staircases in the dark to trapped victims. It will be a 'marathon' they will never forget...and they will forever thank New York for giving them the opportunity to serve their fellow man.

Get your priorities straight, Mayor!

I'm with the Post...directing that many resources to a sporting event is just stupid. The runners could help volunteer in the time slot of the race if they wanted. It really should be cancelled or rescheduled, IMHO.

This is hubris of the highest order - runners do not want to be inconvenienced by having to re-schedule; their wants and needs take precedence over others.

I posted on another story that the citizens in the hardest hit areas should just block the route of the Marathon that runs through their streets.

Bloomberg is sick.

Heard that hotels are kicking out displaced people so the runners can have rooms.

Rudy would surely have handled this a lot better.

I have that CONFIRMED, #9. He has evicted an elderly couple-friends of a co-worker- for the Race Runners.

It must be worth too much to Bloomburg and his cronies to be shut down...

I'm stunned. People are hungry and homeless. Common sense and common decency dictates that the resources should be reallocated. If I were a runner, I would be ashamed to take part. I wonder how many will cancel and donate their room and board to a displaced survivor.

One the day of the race will the Mayor wear a toga and play a fiddle?

If Bloomberg thinks he has problems now, imagine what will happen when hundreds of marathoners sustain injuries after being pelted with rotten eggs, rocks and bricks (and 16-ounce soft drinks?) thrown at them by angry residents of the ravaged neighborhoods along the marathon route?

Gentility is not the outer boroughs' strong suit, after all.

#2, "a bunch of neurotic joggers racing for bragging rights" ... well said!

The absurdity of running this parade of the vanities, under these exigent circumstances, is plain to see.

But I've been critical of jogging fanatics and marathon enthusiasts for years. Many are obvious narcissists and anorexics. Some I would even call exhibitionists. (No, not talking about your ordinary garden variety guy or gal who puts in a couple of miles before work.)

And for all the temporary benefit from marathoners' money pouring into a city, what will be the cost to our children for Medicare billings for all these Boomers' ruined knees, hips and ankles -- injuries that marathoners inflicted on themselves?

Didn't they postpone football games because of a bad snow storm a few years back? Memory is a bit scratchy on that.

This is a political disaster in the making. Bloomberg endorses Zero... then he takes valuable manpower and resources from Hurricane Relief for a 'Marathon'... It would not surprise me if People in New York spontaneously attack these marathon runners when the event ensues, or pelt them with garbage.

Personally I think it would be a great way for people in New York to express their anger and let off steam while making a public gesture, by pelting marathon runners with the rotten/spoiled food from their freezers.

Yahoo advises the NYC Marathon has been cancelled.

I agree that the race should be cancelled. i agree that the runners should be blocked. I DISAGREE that the runners should be the object of flying debris. No one should be injured. It is not their fault that the Mayor of NYC is an egomaniac and has no common sense. In an emergency, human life and human suffering take priority over everything else. The Mayor should open a tent city for any displaced person and use the generators there. He refuses help from the National Guard, which just proves the man is a cretin.
My Opinion.

Sanity prevails.... Finally!

New Yorkers are running sprints to get to the dumpsters, Zero.

Camceling the race might be the best decision this Mayor has made!

Come on! For God's sake, this should have been done a week ago! What a tool.

If I were voting in NY, I would vote against Obama, just to protest Bloomberger!
I used to run and even did a couple of marathons, but to run this race after Sandy is stupid.

But on the bright side, NYC has term limits which guarantee this bum won't be stinking up Gracie Mansion forever!

right?

Bloomberg has been a POS since he first ran in 2001. He is a hideous little man whose ego is far larger than his intelligence or talent. He has only looked like a good Mayor because the people that would have succeeded him are so stupid and mostly socialists, that he looks like a star compared to them. Someone said on the thread NYC has Term Limits. Doomberg changed the Term Limits law, with the consent of the City Council, jerks all of them, so that he could run for a 3rd term. So, he changes the law when it suits him as he changes political parties when it suits him. I am so glad that he was forced to cancel the marathon. I hope this ruins whatever so-called legacy that he could possibly have.

The Marathon has been cancelled!

What arrogant jerks these so-called leaders in NYC are.

Apparently, the pressure got to Mayor Bum-marathon is cancelled!!

This is a No-Brainer for anyone with even a mustard seed worth of leadership...CNX the stupid marathon...

Hard to believe that it took folks, hungry and freezing in the dark to get Bloomers to wake up and finally make the right decision.