Celebrating 10 Years of the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge at Empire City Casino by MGM Resorts

To celebrate 10 years of the global phenomenon the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, Co-Founder and Late Yonkers Native Pat Quinn’s Family will join the City of Yonkers and Empire City Casino by MGM Resorts to host the2024 ALS Ice Bucket Challenge on Saturday, August 3. You can watch the video announcement here.

The annual event will once again take place trackside at the historic Yonkers Raceway located at Empire City Casino by MGM Resorts in Westchester, New York and is free to participate for all ages. Festivities will begin at 1:00 p.m. with the ice bucket dump scheduled for 2:00 p.m. While there will be day-of walk-up registrations, participants are encouraged to pre-register online at YonkersNY.gov/IBC. The event, co-founded by Quinn after his diagnosis of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) in 2013 at the age of 30, became a global phenomenon as more than 17 million people around the world participated in the challenge via social media by dumping buckets of ice water on their heads. The event continues to remain a catalyst for raising funds to support research to identify a cure for the debilitating disease and raise awareness of the need for more research funding. It is reported that an ALS patient dies in the U.S. every ninety minutes.