NEW YORK (WABC) -- Rock star Nick Hexum of the band 311 is coming to New York City to take part in this week's 2016 Empire State Building Run-Up.
Athletes race up 86 flights of stairs in the annual event, which is in its 39th year.
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He is asking fans around the world to support the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation and hopes to raise at least $10,000.
Nick's mother Patricia Hudson has the blood cancer disease for which there is currently no cure.
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