Two weeks before Melissa Leigh Hochman of Brooklyn met Dr. Alexander William Peters of Manhattan in January 2017, their train had already come in — on the tracks of the new Second Avenue subway, that is. “We often joke that the new Q train made our relationship possible, as it cut our commute down from…
To land Elon Musk, who appeared on their Clubhouse program last February, the couple texted him. They had met Mr. Musk several years ago during a private tour of SpaceX’s headquarters in Hawthorne, Calif. A week later, Mark Zuckerberg dialed in to discuss the future of augmented reality. The Facebook founder was another easy get:…
“We talked about investing in youth, the Jesuit tradition of giving back, and the loss of his older sister,” a few months earlier, she said. He appreciated her empathy and “positivity” and could not wait to see her again. They began hanging out, but Jan. 4, 2013 stood out the most — dinner at Georgia…
Mr. Pasqualone agreed. “The biggest thing that has brought us together has been the concept of family,” he said, choking back tears. “That was so important to me, because when I saw her with my children, and how she interacts with them, and how she interacts with my parents, it’s just something I love seeing.”…
Chris Wiggins moved to Manhattan with two friends in 2013 after they graduated from the University of Central Florida in Orlando. They split a one-bedroom apartment in Manhattan’s South Street Seaport neighborhood. At the same time, Annie Jackson moved into the same building with two of her friends. Soon after they settled in, Taylor Klessens,…
On a summer evening in a previous century, Garrett Foster, then 27, summoned up his courage and entered a gay bar for the first time. At the Brook in Westport, Conn., which, until it closed, was the oldest continually operating gay bar in the country, he laid eyes on Brian Murray, then 31. Mr. Murray…
In 2014, Derek Owens and Chelsea Segal randomly sat next to each other at the orientation session for their two-year stint in the Peace Corps. “Two of you will get married, it always happens,” the facilitator told the cohort of 48 people on the crest of their placement in Panama. “I was certain it would…
Date No. 2 took a while. But at the bar at the Baccarat Hotel in late April, Ms. Katz decided she shouldn’t have waited so long to reconnect with him. “He was so adorable and so smart, and his texts to me were so thoughtful,” she said. Weeks later, on June 10, they declared themselves…
Mosheh David Oinounou and Alexandra Lauren Sall were shushed a few times as they whispered nonstop during a hefty lineup of talks on pastrami, knishes and other Jewish foods on their first date in October 2018. It took place at an annual event sponsored by the Jewish Food Society at the Angel Orensanz Center on…
Name: Kahlil Greene Age: 21 Hometown: Germantown, Md. Now Lives: In a spacious two-bedroom apartment in New Haven, Conn., just outside the Yale campus. Claim to Fame: Mr. Greene was elected as Yale’s first Black student body president in 2019, when he was a sophomore majoring in history. Off-campus, he is known to his more…