{"id":13059,"date":"2025-10-23T06:10:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T06:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/13059\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T06:10:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T06:10:16","slug":"bba-and-coneys-ny-aquarium-hold-first-family-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/13059\/","title":{"rendered":"BBA and Coney\u2019s NY Aquarium hold first \u2018Family Day\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/brooklyneagle.com\/section\/courts-and-law\/daily-bulletin\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-296542\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Daily-Bulletin-Logo-1024x371.png\"   alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"91\"\/><\/a>CONEY ISLAND \u2014 Members of the <a href=\"https:\/\/brooklyneagle.com\/articles\/tag\/brooklyn-bar-association\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brooklyn Bar Association<\/a> (BBA) and their families spent a fun-filled, lighthearted, activity-packed afternoon at Coney Island\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/brooklyneagle.com\/articles\/tag\/new-york-aquarium\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Aquarium<\/a> on an unusually warm fall afternoon, celebrating the organization\u2019s inaugural \u201cFamily Day\u201d on Oct. 18.<\/p>\n<p>The jaunt took place during the facility\u2019s \u201cAscarium\u201d season, a Halloween-themed festival combining marine life exploration with spooky\/fun family activities, such as magic shows, face painting, carnival games and more.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>BBA members and their families were also treated to a performance of the \u201cSea Lion Show,\u201d which succeeded in dazzling and entertaining.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Great networking opportunities<\/p>\n<p>BBA President <a href=\"https:\/\/brooklyneagle.com\/articles\/tag\/christina-golkin\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Christina Golkin<\/a>, Esq., told the Brooklyn Eagle that she is trying to create more content and programming for attorneys and judges who have children and families.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re hoping that this kind of diverse programming brings together lawyers and judges who are parents as well as younger attorneys and families to provide great networking opportunities,\u201d Golkin said.<\/p>\n<p>Golkin explained that when she was in high school, community service was a part of her graduation requirements, and she volunteered at the New York Aquarium for many years during high school and college in their education department.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve spent a lot of time here, and I know how special this place is, how wonderful the staff is and how dedicated they are to conservation and caring for animals and doing public outreach.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CONEY ISLAND \u2014 Members of the Brooklyn Bar Association (BBA) and their families spent a fun-filled, lighthearted, activity-packed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13060,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,10076,100,99,10077,3308,10078,9,5206,24,63,10079],"class_list":["post-13059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-bar-association-bba","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-christina-golkin","tag-daily-bulletin","tag-dewey-golkin","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-aquarium","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-shirin-zarabi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13059","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=13059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}