It's a busy week at the Brooklyn marriage bureau, as the first same-sex marriages go through in New York, and a few Windsor Terrace neighbors have made the news.
The Fort Greene Patch neighbor Marianne Nicolosi, who was on hand as a witness to her friends' wedding. Nicolosi, the executive director of the Brooklyn Community Pride Center, never had the chance to marry her partner of 25 years, who passed away eight years ago to lymphoma:
"She would have been overjoyed that it was happening and that it was happening here in Borough Hall," Nicolosi said of Mary Ellen, swallowing back tears. "It's bittersweet."
Over at The City Room. they speak with Michael Fury and Bobby Bienvenido, the first couple to wed on Sunday at the Brooklyn Municipal Building. Fury considers himself lucky to have lived to reach that date, having just received a kidney transplant after waiting for five years.
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