A San Francisco resident and marathon runner, Cal Calamia, is getting into it with the organizers of the New York City Marathon.

Calamia, who's a non-binary, trans-masculine runner living in San Francisco, won the non-binary race category at last year's famous New York City Marathon. But despite the win, Calamia discovered they were ineligible for the $5,000 prize money that accompanied the prestigious title, per KRON4.

The New York City Marathon became the first major marathon to offer prize money to non-binary runners in 2022. However, after competing and securing the first-place medal, Calamia never received the $5,000 prize money. They reached out to the New York Road Runners (NYRR), the marathon organizers, who said there was a rule that hadn't been followed: runners were supposed to compete in six NYRR races in the year leading up to the New York City Marathon. That stipulation had quietly posted on the marathon's website three months after their registration, according to KRON4.

Calamia said they never saw it, and couldn't have complied if they did. That "would obviously require me to live in NYC,” Calamia told KRON4. “I can't fly out there six times to go do races, so I was really surprised by this being added and really disappointed.”

Then, NYRR issued a statement in response: "Cal was not eligible for the NYRR member division, non-binary prize money as they did not complete the six fully scored races required. The prize money and eligibility requirements for the non-binary category were published on our website at the same time as all the other categories, six months before the race."

As Outsports reported, NYRR also got defensive and said that it has "supported Cal on multiple fronts for nearly a half a year in their fight for inclusion — including assisting them with acquiring pro-bono legal representation in their successful therapeutic use exemption battle. We are saddened by their inaccurate portrayal of this matter." (Calamia had to petition the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency to make sure they could compete while on masculinizing hormone therapy, per Outsports.)

Calamia was reportedly unsatisfied with the response and wanted more accountability. ”They didn't say, 'hey, it was our mistake, we should have communicated better,'" Calamia reportedly recounted.

The $5,000 prize instead was awarded to the second-place runner in the non-binary category who fulfilled the six-race requirement.

The good news is, the SF Marathon is coming up over the summer, and it has a non-binary category as well. Hopefully all of the rules are posted well in advance.

Feature image of NYC marathon via Getty Images/Terraxplorer.

Sonya Haines and Wes Rowe of Wes Burger will sell authentic NYC bagels this Saturday. Last time they offered these beauties, expressed overnight from the city that never sleeps, lines went around the block. Be sure to get there early. Very early. Unless you enjoy waiting in line (which you probably already do).

Anyway, the menu:

BAGELS
* Plain
* Everything

SCHMEARS:
* Plain
* Cracked Pepper
* Scallion-Garlic
* Olive
* Caper + Lox

Get in line on Saturday. Only 180 will be available. The bagels drop from 11:30am until 3:00pm at Dear Mom (2700 16th Street).

In a new installment in the eternal New York City versus San Francisco comparisons, the folks behind a new app have compiled some interesting data on the habits of our fair city. The info comes from Chronos, an app that runs in the background on your phone and keeps tabs on everything you're doing so that you can make snazzy infographics about your life (nope, not creepy at all, move along folks).

In a blog post by Business Insider, Chronos compared San Franciscans and New Yorkers on sleep habits and dining and drinking practices, and found that San Franciscans are generally, weirdly just better than New Yorkers. Just kidding! But they did find that SF denizens who used their app get up earlier and head directly to the bars on weekend mornings, which we think shows a remarkable sense of poise.

In terms of sleep, San Franciscans get up and about, on the whole, earlier than New Yorkers (10% of whom don't get up on weekends until after 11am). This could be due to the portion of SF's workforce that lives by East Coast hours, or we could just be more eager to get to yoga class on time. Observe:

San Franciscans tend to spend their nights out, dive bars, "latin" places and their friend's houses figured big, while New Yorkers defaulted more to cocktail lounges and Italian food. And when it comes to weekends, we head directly to coffeeshops, bars and parks, while New Yorkers universally seem to hit restaurants hard. Maybe they don't have to wait as long for brunch as their compatriots out West.

[Business Insider]

Ever wonder what this website would look like if it were written in the 1860s? Well, first of all, it'd probably only be a weekly, and when we complained about the cost of mass transit, we'd be talking pennies a ride! Anyway, back then, more than 814,000 people were living in New York City's Manhattan, many in the slums of Five Points, with communities starting to emerge in the wilderness above 42nd Street. Click through for a look at what life in New York City was like 150 years ago...

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Cyclists, if you've ever been harassed for riding your bike on the sidewalks -- which is forbidden, by the way -- take a moment to bathe in the warm glow of this footage that captured NYPD arresting a man for "ridiculing" a cyclist getting a ticket. Although the heckler walked away after spouting a comment toward the biker (i.e., "You're a grown man, you know better than that!"), several cops pour out of the police van "to teach the man a lesson in manners."

Makes SFPD look downright tame by comparison, doesn't it?

In the end, the passerby was reportedly charged with harassment, disorderly conduct and resisting arrest.

[via Gothamist]

Last night, hundreds, perhaps thousands, of people gathered for a protest outside the Church of Latter Day Saints' Manhattan Mormon Temple and march down Broadway to Columbus Circle.

The planned and peaceful event shut down many streets, drew many cops to the area as the march winded through streets with spirited chants.

Earlier on Wednesday and not too far from New York City, gay marriage legally began in Connecticut to which one Gothamist commenter asked "Shouldn't New Yorkers be celebrating what happened in Connecticut today rather than protesting something in a state we have nothing to do with? Not only that, but NY itself will likely legalize gay marriage soon."

Earlier this summer, New York Governor Paterson issued a memo telling all state agencies to recognize legally performed, out-of-state same-sex marriages as valid marriages even though the state does not license or perform said marriages. The memo was based on a February 2008 Appellate Court ruling that said gay marriages "should be afforded the same recognition as any other legally performed union."

Update: Towleroad is reporting crowd estimate from 7-10,000, contrary to AP reports.

Gothamist Editor Jen Chung and LAist Editor Zach Behrens contributed to this post | Photograph by Amanda Spurlock via Gothamist

Offices in Capitol Hill received a manila envelope with a letter claiming responsibility for today's bombing of a landmark military recruiting station in Times Square, NYC. Our parent site, Gothamist, tells us that "WNBC reports that the letters, which arrived today, included a photo of the Army recruiting center 'before it was bombed and...the words 'We did it.'" Which group is claiming responsibility, exactly, remains to be known.

According to the AP, Senator Dianne Feinstein's office sent the following email to other lawmakers:

"A few offices on the House side have received a letter today addressed to 'Members of Congress' with a picture of a man standing in front of the Times Square recruiting station that was bombed in New York today with the statement 'We did it.' He is standing in front of it with his arms spread out and he's attached his political manifesto."

The email, according to Gothamist, also advised people not to open the letters and contact the police.

Today's Times Square attack caused minimal damage to a "New York military recruiting station before dawn Thursday and police were searching for a hooded bicyclist seen on a surveillance video pedaling away," according to CBS. Although the blast was minor, it could have caused "injury and even death."

Australia-born actor Heath Ledger was found dead in his NYC apartment today. It is reported that he allegedly died of either a drug overdose or hanging at Mary-Kate Olsen's apartment. More details as they come in. Sad. Very much so. Read more about the actor here and here.

You may start any and all Brokeback Mountain references starting...now.

UPDATE: According to our parent site, Gothamist:

The housekeeper and masseuse tried to awake him and called the authorities when he did not respond. When the paramedics responded he was in full cardiac arrest and they attempted to perform CPR. It was unsuccessful, however, and he was pronounced dead at the scene.The police say foul play is not suspected.

He was not, as was reported in the , found dead inside MK Olsen's pad.

Weighing in with hard-boiled insouciance on the death of the Academy Award nominee (on announcement day no less! Have you no shame?), check out SFBG and SF Weekly also getting in on the traffic-enticing action.

Check the event's Facebook (ugh) page for details and updates. Or just show up pantless. We look forward to seeing you in attendance, Linton Johnston.