Jia Zhang and Eric Ross Finkelstein were married Jan. 4 at the Manhattan Marriage Bureau. A staff member of the New York City Clerk’s Office, officiated.
The couple met at the Rhode Island School of Design, from which each graduated.
Ms. Zhang, 37, is a research scholar at Columbia University’s Center for Spatial Research. She received master’s degrees from Parsons School of Design and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She also received a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab.
The bride is the daughter of Hong Zheng and Xiaobin Zhang of Beijing. Jia’s father is the chairman in Beijing for ELife Holdings, an investment holding company in Hong Kong, and was formerly the China senior adviser and managing director at J.P. Morgan. Her mother is the founder and principal of Dandelion School in Beijing, a nonprofit school for the children of migrant workers.
Mr. Finkelstein, 37, is a founder and an owner of Court Street Grocers, a group of restaurants in Brooklyn and Manhattan.
The groom is the son of Lawrence B. Finkelstein of Brooklyn and the late Susan B. Gluck, who lived in Hollis Hills, Queens. The groom’s father, who is retired, was a real-estate tax consultant in private practice in Hollis Hills. He currently serves as a baker and delivery driver for Court Street Grocers.
