Brooklyn Bar Association honors Avery Okin and others during 150th Anniversary
It was a party 150 years in the making!
The Brooklyn Bar Association held a 150th Anniversary Dinner at El Caribe in Mill Basin on Thursday where it honored Avery Eli Okin, Steven Cohn and its past presidents.
It was the biggest legal event in Brooklyn since 2019 as nearly 350 people attended the gathering. Attendance consisted of over 50 judges including Hon. Hector LaSalle, the presiding justice of the appellate division, second department, as well as many of his colleagues on the bench, Kings County Supreme Court justices Hon. Sylvia Hinds-Radix of the NYC Corporation Counsel and Frank Carone, a past president and chief of staff for Mayor Eric Adams.