He was a co-founder and president of the New York City Job and Career Center, which opened in the early 1970s to teach vocational skills to high-school students.
Following the financial crisis of 2008, which was his 80th year in the finance game, Kahn said he supported proposals to separate deposit-taking banks from those that use their own money to trade securities.
He explained: “I wouldn’t lend you a dime if I knew you loved to gamble at a casino.”
In addition to sons Alan and Thomas and grandson Andrew, he is survived by six other grandchildren and eight great- grandchildren.