Hundreds of people ran into the ocean to support the Make-A-Wish Foundation for the Long Island Polar Bear Splash.<\/p>\n
Sunday afternoon was cold and windy, but it didn\u2019t stop people from heading into the water.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s important to do things your mind doesn\u2019t want to do,\u201d said one plunger. \u201cIt\u2019s important to challenge yourself. I hated every second and I\u2019d do it again in a heartbeat.\u201d<\/p>\n
It\u2019s the 26th year Long Beach has hosted this event, and it\u2019s all to raise money for the Make-A-Wish foundation.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt warms my heart because this is all for the good of children who are battling critical illnesses every day,\u201d said John Healey, president of Make-A-Wish New York. \u201cSo it\u2019s all people coming out here to take care of them which is well-deserved.\u201d<\/p>\n
Healey says over the past 26 years, the event has raised $11 million for the Make-A-Wish Foundation\u2019s New York chapter.<\/p>\n
The polar plunge brings together volunteers, donors, and community members who want to help grant wishes for children and families who need hope most.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hundreds of people ran into the ocean to support the Make-A-Wish Foundation for the Long Island Polar Bear…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[23854,67676,67677,75,84,83,9,24,63,43007,42196],"class_list":["post-164653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-island","tag-make-a-wish","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-polar-bear-plunge","tag-polar-plunge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}