The celebration kicks off at 6 p.m. at the New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge with a VIP cocktail party with the honorees and celebrity guests. Among the guests will be Tony Award-winning playwright, screenwriter and TV writer David Henry Hwang, whose works include “M. Butterfly,” Showtime’s “The Affair,” and the Broadway musical “Aida.” Thanks to the expertise and quick thinking of The Brooklyn Hospital Center’s Emergency Department team, Hwang survived and fully recovered from a random attack outside his Brooklyn home in 2015.