Six industry leaders accepted awards at the Real Estate Board of New York’s recent annual banquet, the 111th in the trade organization’s history. The recipients were: Daniel Brodsky, a developer and partner of the Brodsky Organization, for the Bernard H. Mendik Lifetime Leadership in Real Estate Award; Jeffrey Brodsky, president of Related Management and executive vice president of Related Affordable, for the George M. Brooker Management Executive of the Year Award; Arnold Fisher, senior partner at Fisher Brothers, for the Kenneth R. Gerrety Humanitarian Award; Paul Massey Jr., co-founder of Massey Knakal Realty Services, for the Louis Smadbeck Broker Recognition Award; William Rudin, a developer and president of Rudin Management, for the Harry B. Helmsley Distinguished New Yorker Award; and Vincent Terranova, executive vice president and principal of Bernstein Real Estate, for the Young Men’s/Women’s Real Estate Association Young Real Estate Man of the Year Award. At the event were, from left to right: Stephen Ross, REBNY chairman; Rudin; Daniel Brodsky; Ken Fisher accepting on behalf of his father, Arnold; Massey; Terranova; and Steve Spinola, REBNY president.

The new $13 million South Orange Performing Arts Center in New Jersey opened with a gala event recently at the 46,000-sq-ft facility designed by RKT&B Architects. Attending the event were, from left to right: Jessica Finkelberg, SOPAC executive director; Paul Golden of Arnell Construction, the project’s general contractor; Carmi Bee, president of RKT&B Architects; Bill Calabrese, village president of South Orange; and Barbara Stoller, chair of SOPAC’s Board of Governors.

More than three dozen real estate brokers attended a recent financial planning seminar in White Plains presented by UBS Financial Services of Greenwich and hosted by the Residences at the Ritz-Carlton, Westchester, a new development in White Plains being built by Cappelli Enterprises. The attendees included, from left, Geoffrey Berry, Houlihan Lawrence; Jessica Rohm, Cappelli Enterprises; Beth Cutler, UBS; and Jason Andrews, UBS.