It’s not every day that I long to be in my old haunts in Brooklyn. I got most of the New York out of my system in the half-decade-plus years I lived and worked there at the beginning of my journalism career. 

But this coming Sunday, the day of the New York City Marathon, part of me wishes I could be at the corner of 4th Avenue and 3rd Street with a cowbell in one hand and a coffee in the other. With the weather forecast calling for highs in the mid-60s and partly clear skies, it’s set to be a great day to cheer on more than 50,000 runners as they stream past on the 26.2-mile route through all five of the city’s boroughs. 

Susman Godfrey partner Mark Hatch-Miller,. Courtesy photo