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Cute urbanites, annoying overachievers, or just another New York couple?

Kenneth Dickerman for The New York Times

For the full details, you can read the article here. But the gist (liberally drawn from the NYT article) is as follows:

Emily Nemens, the communications director for the Center for Architecture/AIA NY:

• Age 27,
• Was writer-in-residence at the Kerouac Project in Orlando, Fla., where she completed a short-story collection called “Scrub.”
• She contributed to a graphic novel version of Studs Terkel’s “Working,”
• Played the baritone saxophone at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland, twice
• She paints, she sews, she plays soccer and she is a virtuoso cook.

Benjamin Shuldiner.

• Age 33,
• Became the state’s youngest high school principal seven years ago at age 26 when he co-founded the Crown Heights High School for Public Service.
• Ran for Congress in a district north of New York City, where his family lives, coming in third in the Democratic primary.
• Was a junior state chess champion.
• As a student at Harvard, the host of his own hip-hop radio show.
• He’s also an ace marksman with a light rifle.

Emily and Benjamin decided to live together, but preferred to rent two apartments right across the hall from each other, "spaces so close that the two of them can dart back and forth in their underwear with little fear of being seen by the neighbors". Their apartments are in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, right near the trendy Bedford Avenue L-train stop. They spend most weekends at Benjamin's three-bedroom house in Mohegan Colony in northern Westchester County.

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