the Gowanus Canal was recently the site of a marriage proposal — and she said yes.Gowanus residents Emma Borochoff, 30, and Jamison Pence, 32, have been dating for three-and-a-half years, lived in the neighborhood for two, and frequently go on walks over the Superfund-designated waterway’s bridges, a pleasure they’ve been enjoying even more frequently in quarantine.
Inspired by their jaunts, and wanting to have his friends present in a COVID-safe way during the big moment, Pence had the idea to get down and dirty with his proposal on the canal itself.“Last summer, we did a canal crawl, and that’s what prompted the engagement — we wanted to do another canal crawl this year, but because of the pandemic, we made it a small crawl,” Pence, a.
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