A Big Day for City Hall Weddings
Good morning. It’s Wednesday, and it’s Valentine’s Day. We’ll look at a workplace that is expecting a busier-than-usual day today. We’ll also check two kinds of statistics that were measured yesterday.
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Michael McSweeney said today would be busier than usual in his workplace — “for a Wednesday.”
His workplace is the Manhattan Marriage Bureau, where couples bring bouquets, hope and a marriage license — and where he said Fridays are always the busiest day of the week.
What about Valentine’s Day? “Bigger than the average Wednesday,” said McSweeney, who is the City Clerk and also holds the title Clerk of the City Council.
All the time slots for today have been booked, which means that 125 ceremonies, at $25 each, will be conducted in Manhattan.
“If everybody shows up,” he added.
There will be more weddings in the marriage bureaus in the other boroughs. But the Manhattan one, at 141 Worth Street, is where couples go when they say they are going to City Hall to get married. (City Hall itself is a third of a mile away.)
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