Find New York public records online using our search engine. Whether youre coming to NYC to marry, or you live in the Metro area, congratulations And dont worry, others have come before you and this information has helped. Yfrarrm0w0VWz4vYtIg8DVnw=/350x0/filters:no_upscale()/NYC-birth-certificate-c-xPACIFICA-Creative-RM-Getty-Images-5725027e3df78ced1faf082c.jpg' alt='Borough Hall Staten Island Marriage License' title='Borough Hall Staten Island Marriage License' />Nothing Says Love Like a Borough Hall Wedding. Video. A Love Song Rapped in Japanese. Kendall Graham, 3. Miki Mitsumoto, 2. Times Square four years ago. They tied the knot at the Marriage Bureau in Brooklyn Borough Hall this week, in time for Valentines Day. By Corey Kilgannon on Publish Date February 1. It was just another Saturday night on Queens Boulevard two years ago when Eddie Ellis and Gladys Corcino pulled up beside each other at a red light near 6. Borough Hall Staten Island Marriage License' title='Borough Hall Staten Island Marriage License' />Street. He was headed home alone to Ridgewood after a night out with a buddy. She was the designated driver of a car full of rowdy friends. The ladies pulled up to Mr. Elliss Nissan Maxima windows down, music cranking, began to banter and invited him to proceed to the nearest pancake house. Lets make this ugly guys night, Ms. Corcinos sister cracked. I thought, I got nothing to lose, let me go with them, Mr. Ellis recalled. City Room Love In. In anticipation of Valentines Day, well be celebrating love in all its forms this week. Thats the way it began. Fast forward to Tuesday at the marriage bureau at Staten Islands Borough Hall, a nondescript and efficient little nook of bureaucracy in a grand building overlooking the ferry terminal and the harbor. The couple, chaperoned by their newborn son, Derick, had come to the tie the knot on the island where they are buying a house. We wanted to get married in the borough were going to settle in, said Ms. Corcino. A pre Valentine tour of the citys five borough marriage bureaus this week turned up stories as varied as the rooms themselves. The newly renovated one in Manhattan at 1. Worth Street is a sprawling, marble lined, gold leaf affair with smiling couples lounging on couches while modern digital signs direct them to the proper counter. Those elsewhere are less ceremonious, bottoming out with the basement level bureau in the Bronx Borough Hall where couples wait for hours grumbling about the slow service, and gruff guards watch over the line. There, as in Queens and Brooklyn, the intendeds must pass their rings and other precious metals through the security scanner to enter. There were no guards at the Staten Island bureau, although a sign in the hallway set forth the ground rules No Rice Throwing in Chapel Halls Lobby. Mr. Ellis, a handsome, muscular firefighter the ugly crack was a joke at Engine 1. Staten Island, and Ms. Corcino, a room stylist for Marriott hotels, took their wedding forms from the plastic rack, near the one that held the takeout menus for Papoulis Restaurant and Franks Bay Pizza, and filled them out. While they waited, they recapped their whirlwind courtship. She let him sit next to her that night in the diner booth. He offered to fix her taillight the next day. She accepted. Names came later. Both had been through failed marriages and both pulled that cautious singles trick of using fake first names. He was Erick, and she was Gaby. It took a week before they finally fessed up to their real names. The whole thing was so funny, they said, that they named their baby DerickThats Erick, plus a D for our first date, Mr. Corcino said. Manhattan. At the Manhattan Marriage Bureau, Lev Schneiderman, 6. Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, walked in with his bride to be, Natalia Maytskay, 3. Kennedy International Airport from Belarus. An importer, Ms. Maytskay was here on business. Mr. Schneiderman, a livery cab driver from Tajikistan, was sent to pick her up. But then when I saw her, I felt wonderful, he said on Tuesday. Ms. Maytskay nodded, and added that for her too, It was love at first sight. They registered on one of the computer kiosks and posed for pictures before an oversize photograph of City Hall as backdrop. Then they strolled into the bureaus East Chapel and waited for the clerk. They perused bound volumes from Manhattan marriage records on display from the 1. The clerk appeared and led them through their marriage vows, and then the rings, a kiss, more kisses. Ms. Maytskay will live in New York and continue her work. Both have been married before, but this time, Mr. Schneiderman said, its different. The second time around, you marry for love. We are not 1. 8 anymore. Brooklyn. Kendall Graham, 3. Miki Mitsumoto, 2. Times Square. She was in from New Jersey with a friend and spoke no English. No problem for Mr. Graham, a lifelong Brooklynite who taught himself basic Japanese, Cantonese and Mandarin from language dictionaries when working with Asian clients in computer sales. Mr. Graham, a sometime rapper, had even performed in Japan. They began dating and she moved in with him in his Crown Heights apartment until he finally decided it was time for marriage. I finally wrestled off all my demons, said Mr. Graham, a Fed. Ex delivery man with a route on the Upper East Side. On Monday, he clocked out early, met Ms. Mitsumoto at the Brooklyn Municipal Building, the drab, functional cousin of the ceremonious Borough Hall across the street, and sealed the deal. Afterward, Mr. Graham rapped some verse in rhythmic Japanese, and the couple hopped on the bus back to Crown Heights. Queens. There were two lines outside a side door of Queens Borough Hall on Monday. One was for people answering criminal summonses of the misdemeanor variety. The other line was for those summoned by love. Those in the first line held pink slips issued by police officers, while those on the second line held flowers and the personal documentation required for a marriage license. They came from all walks of life, and wore saris and hijabs and discount suits. One couple looked especially stylish as they shivered in their fashionable clothes. This was Makini Bruce, 1. Kashif Arneaud, 2. Uniondale on Long Island, who had been told they could get married quicker in Queens. Expediency was crucial, because Mr. Arneaud is a private in the Army and stationed in Afghanistan. He had taken weeks leave to get married. Indeed, they were in and out of the bureau in 2. Congratulations, soldier. When Mr. Arneauds tour is over in nine months, the couple plan to have a fancy wedding details to be sorted out by Ms. Bruce, a student at Nassau Community College with aspirations of a career in fashion design. Just give me an empty warehouse, she said, and Ill do the rest. The Bronx. Antonio Incle, 3. Bronx Borough Hall with some familiarity. He used to be a porter here, he said, and now he was getting married here. Imagine that. He and Monica Soto, 2. They already have four children Ember, 8 months old, was sleeping in a stroller. Ms. Soto, an administrative assistant, straightened her dress. Gem Rp X Editor there. Mr. Incle smoothed his blue pinstripe suit. They were finally called into the chapel, a simple office space with an archway of artificial ivy, under which they stood and took their vows. Asked why they chose to get married now, Mr. Incle sighed and said We have 1.