Yonkers Raceway & Empire City Casino, founded in 1899 as the Empire City Race Track, is a one-half-mile standardbred harness racing dirt track and slots racino located at the intersection of Central Park Avenue and Yonkers Avenue in Yonkers, New York, near the New York City border.

Is Yonkers Raceway still open?

Yonkers Raceway welcomes fans back to harness track at Empire City Casino. ... The reemergence of spectators comes as MGM Resorts continues to push for a full casino license at Empire City, which the gambling giant bought in 2019. The raceway closed in March 2020 when the pandemic began.

Is there racing at Yonkers?

Yonkers Raceway is the proud home of three major harness events: the Yonkers Trot, Art Rooney Pace and Messenger Stakes.