1. It's not the NYRRC anymore, just NYRR. They dropped the C some time ago because unattached people were writing it down as their club when they entered non-NYRR races.
2. There are solutions to the jam-up but it has a long lead time, maybe another year or two. NYRR has to have more races outside Central Park, and they need to have more races that are not all-comers events. They have been reluctant to do this in the past because it goes against their basic strategy of viewing their client base as being basically Manhattan joggers who want to run next year's MARATHON.