Verrazano-Narrows Bridge Events Calendar 2027
Two days in 2027 change the bridge: Sunday, May 2, when the TD Five Boro Bike Tour crosses the Narrows, and Sunday, November 7, when the TCS New York City Marathon closes it to traffic. Three more are on this page: the Bay Ridge St. Patrick's Day Parade on Sunday, March 14, the United Airlines NYC Half on Sunday, March 21 and the RBC Brooklyn Half on Saturday, May 22.
Two long runs cross the new year. Andrea Modica's Italian Story is at the Alice Austen House until Saturday, February 20, 2027, and the Winter Lantern Festival at Snug Harbor runs to Sunday, January 10, 2027. Everything else is month by month below, and a month with nothing to list says so.
Every date here is one an organizer has printed — New York Road Runners, Bike New York, the Bay Ridge parade committee, the Alice Austen House, Snug Harbor — or one the City has published. The neighborhoods at either end of the bridge, Bay Ridge in Brooklyn and Fort Wadsworth and Rosebank on Staten Island, publish their calendars only weeks before the event, so a month with nothing listed means no 2027 date is out yet, not that nothing is on.
Still on in January
Both runs began in 2026, so each is listed once here rather than under a month.
Andrea Modica: Italian Story
📅 September 12, 2026 – February 20, 2027. Wednesday–Friday 12 PM–5 PM, Saturday 11 AM–5 PM, closed Sunday–Tuesday. Winter break December 23–January 2; the doors reopen Wednesday, January 6, 2027.
39 platinum prints, shown in the US for the first time. $5 suggested admission. An indoor hour for $5 when it is too cold to be outside, and one that ends on a fixed day: closed Sunday to Tuesday, so plan a Wednesday-to-Saturday visit before February 20.
📍 Alice Austen House Museum, 2 Hylan Blvd, Rosebank, Staten Island, NY 10305
Winter Lantern Festival
📅 November 20, 2026 – January 10, 2027, 5 PM–10 PM, last entry 9 PM. Opening night November 19, 2026, 6:30 PM–10 PM. Open on New Year's Day.
Tickets from $18. An acrobatics and face-changing show is included in the ticket, and the festival runs rain or shine. The winter night out on the Staten Island side: 5 PM to 10 PM, lit after dark, running in rain or shine, until Sunday, January 10.
📍 Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden, 1000 Richmond Terrace, Staten Island, NY 10301. Entrance at Cottage Row and Chapel Road.
January 2027
Both winter runs above are open this month: the Alice Austen House reopens on Wednesday, January 6 after its winter break, and the lantern festival's last night is Sunday, January 10. No other date is published for January 2027 in Bay Ridge, Fort Wadsworth, Rosebank or on the bridge.
February 2027
Andrea Modica's Italian Story closes at the Alice Austen House on Saturday, February 20, 2027, when the museum is open 11 AM–5 PM. No other date is published for February 2027 in Bay Ridge, Fort Wadsworth, Rosebank or on the bridge.
March 2027
Bay Ridge St. Patrick's Day Parade
📅 Sunday, March 14, 2027. Step-off 1 PM, line-up from noon — the hour the parade has used; the committee prints the day, not the time.
3rd Avenue from Marine Avenue to 67th Street, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, with the grandstand in front of the Greenhouse Cafe, 7717 3rd Avenue. Bay Ridge's own St. Patrick's Day rather than Manhattan's — one avenue, one afternoon, on the Brooklyn side of the bridge.
📍 3rd Avenue, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn
United Airlines NYC Half
📅 Sunday, March 21, 2027, 7:00 AM.
13.1 miles, starting in Brooklyn, over the Brooklyn Bridge, north on FDR Drive and through Times Square to a Central Park finish. New York Road Runners prints this date on its 2027 race page. The spring half in the marathon's family — and the one race on this page that does not touch the bridge, so do not plan to watch it from the Narrows.
📍 Brooklyn Bridge, FDR Drive, Times Square, Central Park
April 2027
No date is published yet for April 2027 in Bay Ridge, Fort Wadsworth, Rosebank or on the bridge.
May 2027
TD Five Boro Bike Tour
📅 Sunday, May 2, 2027.
40 miles, car-free, from a Manhattan start to the Finish Festival inside Fort Wadsworth on Staten Island. Riders cross the Narrows on the Staten Island-bound lower level. In 2026 that level was closed to vehicles all day and the upper level stayed open both ways; the 2027 traffic plan is not published yet. You cannot watch from the bridge, and Fort Wadsworth is closed to the public all day — only registered riders get into the finish. The one day of the year a bicycle is allowed over the Narrows — and the finish is inside the fort at the Staten Island anchorage.
📍 Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, lower level, to Fort Wadsworth, Staten Island
RBC Brooklyn Half
📅 Saturday, May 22, 2027, 7:00 AM. Wave times are not published yet.
13.1 miles from Prospect Park to the Coney Island boardwalk. Entry is $126.90. Brooklyn's own half, finishing on the Coney Island boardwalk — a long way from the Narrows, so do not plan to watch this one from the bridge.
📍 Prospect Park to Coney Island, Brooklyn
June 2027
No date is published yet for June 2027 in Bay Ridge, Fort Wadsworth, Rosebank or on the bridge.
July 2027
No date is published yet for July 2027 in Bay Ridge, Fort Wadsworth, Rosebank or on the bridge.
August 2027
No date is published yet for August 2027 in Bay Ridge, Fort Wadsworth, Rosebank or on the bridge.
September 2027
No date is published yet for September 2027 in Bay Ridge, Fort Wadsworth, Rosebank or on the bridge.
October 2027
No date is published yet for October 2027 in Bay Ridge, Fort Wadsworth, Rosebank or on the bridge.
November 2027
TCS New York City Marathon
📅 Sunday, November 7, 2027.
The start village is at Fort Wadsworth, Staten Island, and the course crosses the Narrows on the bridge before it reaches Brooklyn. Both levels of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge close to traffic for the race. The morning the bridge belongs to feet — the field starts at Fort Wadsworth and the first miles are over the Narrows.
The 2027 closure window is not published. The City and MTA announce race-day hours only days ahead; the start line and spectator guide carries the current year's figures.
📍 Fort Wadsworth, Staten Island, and the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge
🔗 NYRR marathon page · Start line and spectator detail · Event and closure guide
December 2027
No date is published yet for December 2027 in Bay Ridge, Fort Wadsworth, Rosebank or on the bridge.
Plan the crossing
There is no pedestrian or bicycle access on the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge. The only people who cross under their own power are the Five Boro Bike Tour field in May and the marathon field in November, both on permit days with the roadway closed. Race-day closure hours are published days before the event, not months ahead, so an hour you read for a 2027 race before race week is the 2026 pattern, not a 2027 promise.
Tolls and payment · Is the bridge open now or see scheduled closings · Traffic patterns · Getting to the bridge · 2026 events
From its completion in 1964 until 1981 the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge was the longest suspension bridge in the world. But the idea for the bridge went back a lot before 1964, in fact some of the first serious proposals are from the 1950s when Port Authority of New York and the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority held a joint study on improving traffic flows in the area.