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发帖数: 19713 | 1 NYC to Marry All Couples in Lottery for Sunday
By Julie Bolcer
NEW YORK SAME SEX MARRIAGE PRIDE X390 (GETTY) | ADVOCATE.COM
Some 823 couples entered the lottery to win one of 764 available spaces in
New York City on Sunday, when the new marriage equality law takes effect,
and the Big Apple plans to marry all of them.
City officials said Thursday evening that Manhattan saw the highest demand,
with 533 entries for 400 available slots. All applicants to clerk’s offices
in the other four boroughs received a slot in the location they requested.
Applicants could only apply to one borough. The lottery opened on Tuesday at
noon and closed on Thursday at noon.
Marc LaVorgna, a spokesman for Mayor Michael Bloomberg, said that in order
to accommodate all the couples in the lottery, the number of slots in
Manhattan would be increased to 459. The remaining 74 couples that wanted to
marry in Manhattan will be offered a place in one of the other four
boroughs, which will put Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island at
capacity if all the couples accept the offer.
Notifications to couples in the lottery are ongoing.
The city announced the lottery earlier this week in response to overwhelming
preliminary demand for marriage licenses online, where more than 2,600
couples, most of them same-sex and from New York City, applied since July 5.
Officials wanted to make sure the city could accommodate all the couples,
with Valentine Day’s 2003 standing as the record for the maximum number of
couples – 621 – ever married in one day in New York City.
If necessary, the Manhattan clerk’s office will remain open beyond the
scheduled closing time of 4:30 p.m. to accommodate the increased number of
couples guaranteed service on Sunday. Volunteer judges will be hand on in
all boroughs to waive the normal 24-hour waiting period between the issuing
of a marriage license and when a ceremony can take place. Once couples
obtain their license and waiver on Sunday, they may choose to be married at
the clerk's office, or hold the ceremony in any other location of their
choosing.
Couples who entered the lottery are encouraged to arrive in the morning on
Sunday, when offices in the five boroughs will open at 8:30 a.m., and no
later than 3:45 p.m. for guaranteed access.
Couples that did enter the lottery should not visit the clerks’ offices in
New York City on Sunday. City officials advise those couples to plan on
visiting the clerks’ offices throughout the following week, when extended
service hours will be in effect to accommodate the expected surge in couples
seeking marriages.
Clerks' offices in some other New York municipalities will also be open on
Sunday and couples interested in marrying may check with the specific
locations throughout the state. | k*****e
发帖数: 22013 | 2 哈哈，这标题党
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: NYC to Marry All Couples in Lottery for Sunday
: By Julie Bolcer
: NEW YORK SAME SEX MARRIAGE PRIDE X390 (GETTY) | ADVOCATE.COM
: Some 823 couples entered the lottery to win one of 764 available spaces in
: New York City on Sunday, when the new marriage equality law takes effect,
: and the Big Apple plans to marry all of them.
: City officials said Thursday evening that Manhattan saw the highest demand,
: with 533 entries for 400 available slots. All applicants to clerk’s offices
: in the other four boroughs received a slot in the location they requested.
: Applicants could only apply to one borough. The lottery opened on Tuesday at
| m******1
发帖数: 19713 | 3 就怕真吓着你们，所以还加了个引号哪
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: 哈哈，这标题党
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| k*****e
发帖数: 22013 | 4 我还是被吓到了一下下，赶紧进来看个究竟。
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: 就怕真吓着你们，所以还加了个引号哪
| L*******e
发帖数: 2202 | 5 最新消息是800多对等结婚的新人全体抽中，都可以在周日结婚了 | D**S
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