This is Marty's thing. He does it every year; a real signature event for the Borough President and I'm sure long-time married couples come out in droves
It's at the Brooklyn Marriott at Brooklyn Bridge. 333 Adams Street at 2 pm.
Among the sweethearts scheduled to attend are a Starrett City/Spring
Creek Towers couple, married for a remarkable 71 years. He was born in the
Panama Canal Zone of Cuban descent, and her family is Jamaican. As they both
approach the age of 100, they say the inauguration of Barack Obama as the
nation’s first African-American president was an intensely emotional
experience for them.
person’s camp during World War II and discovered they grew up in the same
small town outside Krakow ,
Poland . She is 88, he is a spry
101, and he boasts that he doesn’t take a single medication. The couple
has been celebrating wedded bliss for an amazing 61 years.
Heights couple met as
teenagers in Downtown Brooklyn and continued to date even while he was off
serving in World War II. In fact, she kept in touch with him by sending letters
written on a long spool of adding machine tape. In 1945, he came home on a
two-week furlough, and the soldier and his bride decided to get married. They
still live in the home where they raised their chi
Two other Brooklyn couples share more
than their secrets to a happy marriage—the two wives are also sisters!
One pair met when they were only 17 years old, and she recalls watching a movie
at the old Mayfair Theater on Coney
Island Avenue when her future husband, sitting in
the row behind her, “kept punching my head.” Well, those
“love taps” worked—they’ve been husband and wife for 56
years. Her sister’s marriage is keeping pace at 54 years.