Meet the Bar Leaders: David Chidakel’s poor, humble origins can forge leadership
David Chidekel grew up in the Bronx in the shadow of Yankee Stadium and the great teams of the ‘50s and ‘60s, he likes to say. But as great as those teams were, the surrounding neighborhood was just the opposite as poverty, drugs and violence ran rampant.
With the help of his education, Chidekel was able to rise up out of the neighborhood which was the setting for “Fort Apache: The Bronx,” to eventually establish himself as a pillar of the Brooklyn legal community who is just two years away from being president of the Brooklyn Bar Association.