By Carla Zanoni
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
WASHINGTON HEIGHTS — Children from around the city came to Upper Manhattan to participate in the New York Road Runners Youth Jamboree Saturday, with one local runner taking home a first place prize.
Utyci Brown, an eight-year-old student at the Promise Academy in Harlem, won first place prize for boys in the 200-meter dash for seven-to-eight-year-old runners.
Brown was one of more than 2,500 runners who participated in the event held at the New Balance Track and Field Center at the Armory on 168th Street and Fort Washington Avenue.
The New York Road Runners Club holds its free youth jamborees four times a year in an attempt to "promote children’s physical fitness, character development, and personal achievement in under-served communities."
