{"id":223742,"date":"2026-05-07T20:19:52","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T20:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/223742\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T20:19:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T20:19:52","slug":"bronx-community-college-holds-48th-annual-run-the-bronx-bronx-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/223742\/","title":{"rendered":"Bronx Community College holds 48th annual \u2018Run the Bronx\u2019 \u2013 Bronx Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tBy Ethan Marshall and Jewel Webber<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tPosted on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bxtimes.com\/bronx-community-college-48th-annual-run-the-bronx\/\" rel=\"bookmark nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">May 7, 2026<\/a>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_0500-1.jpg\" class=\"crop-center wp-post-image\" alt=\"run the bronx\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/>\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Numerous runners took part in the 48th annual Run the Bronx at Bronx Community College.<\/p>\n<p>Photo by Jewel Webber<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bcc.cuny.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Bronx Community College<\/a> held its 48th annual \u201cRun the Bronx\u201d to help promote health and wellness in the borough on Saturday, May 2.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-143834\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_0497.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\"  \/>Photo by Jewel Webber\n<\/p>\n<p>In addition to encouraging physical activity to help improve health outcomes among residents of the borough, this annual event also honors its founder, Dr. Roscoe C. Brown, a former Tuskegee Airman and the third president of Bronx Community College. Brown founded Run the Bronx in 1978, with the event now widely believed to be the second-oldest footrace in New York City.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Ethan Marshall and Jewel Webber Posted on May 7, 2026 Numerous runners took part in the 48th&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,3974,87901,9,24,63,87902,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-223742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-bronx-community-college","tag-dr-roscoe-c-brown-jr","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-run-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}