Meet Cutes NYC: True Stories of Love and Connection<\/a>\u201d (Artisan Books, out now).<\/p>\nJeremy Bernstein (from left), Victor Lee and Aaron Feinberg are the romantics behind \u201cMeet Cutes.\u201d Photographs by Jeremy Cohen<\/p>\n
The \u201cMeet Cutes\u201d book is out now. <\/p>\n
From more than 5,000 videos,\u00a0Feinberg, Bernstein and Lee selected a diverse mix of 85 couples of all ages and backgrounds for the book.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a piece of hope that love is possible and shows you that it can mean so many different things to different people,\u201d Feinberg, who is single and \u201clooking,\u201d said. \u201cThere\u2019s no science behind it.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Here, they share a few of their favorite couples. <\/p>\n
Alice & Geoffrey<\/p>\n
Alice and Geoffrey\u2019s story is one of the all-time favorites, according to the \u201cMeet Cutes\u201d creators. Photographs by Jeremy Cohen<\/p>\n
The two first met decades ago while working at Channel 13 \u2014 she was an assistant on\u00a0\u201cAmerican Family,\u201d\u00a0and he was a mail clerk. Every week, Geoffrey delivered the stacks of fashion magazines Alice ordered to her office. One day, he overheard her on the phone saying dramatically, \u201cOh, darling, I was just in Morocco. The death in Morocco, darling,\u201d and he couldn\u2019t resist mocking her. Alice caught him and shouted, \u201cWho the hell do you think you are?\u201d<\/p>\n
Later, when she had an extra ticket to a popular late-night show, she invited Geoffrey along. Afterward, they walked 46 blocks home, talking the entire way \u2014 and they haven\u2019t stopped since.<\/p>\n
\u201cAlice and Geoffrey\u2019s story is one of our all-time favorites,\u201d Feinberg told\u00a0The Post. \u201cIt\u2019s sharp, unexpected and completely unforgettable. It\u2019s proof that love doesn\u2019t always start with sparks. Sometimes it starts with sarcasm and a mail cart.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mike & Karen<\/p>\n
Mike and Karen\u2019s story has resonated with fans because \u201cit\u2019s about second chances,\u201d Feinberg said. Photographs by Jeremy Cohen<\/p>\n
The pair met in a college lecture hall. Mike secretly wished Karen would sit next to him \u2014 she did. He asked her out, only to learn she had a boyfriend. <\/p>\n
Years later, she was single and they started dating. But after a couple years together, they broke up because Mike wasn\u2019t ready. Then, two years after that, they ran into each crossing a street and have been together ever since.<\/p>\n
\u201cTheir video is one of our five most popular,\u201d Lee told The Post.<\/p>\n
\u201cTheir story resonated so deeply because it\u2019s about second chances, the kind of imperfect, full-circle love that feels both cinematic and real,\u201d Feinberg added. \u201cTiming matters and love doesn\u2019t always unfold in a straight line.\u201d<\/p>\n
Thuy & San<\/p>\n
Thuy and San climbed their way to love. Photographs by Jeremy Cohen<\/p>\n
Thuy and San were wearing matching hoodies when Feinberg, Lee, and Bernstein saw them in Clinton Hill on a grocery run. The pair met at a NYC climbing gym while Thuy was visiting from San Francisco. \u201cSan followed her up the wall, they chatted, and that was that, or so it seemed,\u201d Lee said. \u201cA few months later, Thuy moved to New York, and once again, she ran into San at a climbing gym. This time, San knew it was fate.\u201d<\/p>\n
Thuy and San were wearing matching hoodies when Feinberg, Lee and Bernstein saw them in Clinton Hill on a grocery run. The pair met at a NYC climbing gym while Thuy was visiting from San Francisco. \u201cSan followed her up the wall, they chatted, and that was that, or so it seemed,\u201d Lee said. \u201cA few months later, Thuy moved to New York, and once again, she ran into San at a climbing gym. This time, San knew it was fate.\u201d<\/p>\n
Joe & Liza<\/p>\n
Joe & Liza had new couple energy, even though they\u2019d been together for years. Photographs by Jeremy Cohen<\/p>\n
Feinberg saw them in Williamsburg one day when he was by himself and was struck by how affectionate they were. \u201cI thought they were a new couple, but they had been together 15 years,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The pair met when Liza walked into Joe\u2019s hardware store with her boyfriend. <\/p>\n
\u201cJoe immediately thought, I hope I meet someone like her someday. Turns out, it wasn\u2019t someone like her, it was her,\u201d Feinberg told The Post.\u00a0 \u201cLiza wasn\u2019t happy in her relationship, and eventually made a change. The connection she felt with Joe was undeniable, and they\u2019ve been together ever since.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was the question that started it all \u2014 \u201cExcuse me, are you two a couple?\u201d\u00a0 In 2023,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2878,11830,232,9,24,55,54,56,11831,6493],"class_list":{"0":"post-16695","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-dating-advice","10":"tag-lifestyle","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","14":"tag-new-york-city-news","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-postscript","17":"tag-sex-relationships"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}