Thanks to StreetEasy (the NYC apartment rental app, for all you non-New Yorkers), John and Mallory met at an apartment tour on the Upper East Side of Manhattan on a Saturday morning in July 2022. They were the only two there for the tour, which is nearly unheard of for a summer apartment rental. After realizing they were waiting for the same broker, they began chatting, toured the unit together (John got it, but Mallory is fine with this - it was such a boy apartment), Mallory asked John to get a coffee (to which he replied, "like right now?" Shocked that anyone could take such immediate action and be so direct!), he asked for her number, and the rest is history!