Forget the Hollywood trope of locking eyes across a crowded room; today’s love stories are being written in DMs, Zoom calls, and, occasionally, Walgreens parking lots.
If anything, modern romance has never looked more real, messy or magical.
Just ask Zohran Mamdani, the newly elected mayor of New York City, who met his wife, artist Rama Duwaji on Hinge. Yes, Hinge, the dating app that is “designed to be deleted”.
For a politician now dubbed the “people’s mayor,” his meet-cute feels perfectly millennial: swiping right in between campaign calls and policy drafts.
Mamdani, 34, shared the story on The Bulwark podcast earlier this year, noting that his love life is proof “there’s still hope in dating apps”.
Duwaji, 27, is a Brooklyn-based artist, and the two tied the knot in…
