The Q Train Kept Their Relationship on Track
Melissa Leigh Hochman and Dr. Alexander William Peters had lived in different New York City boroughs, but the new Second Avenue subway made it easier for them to see each other.
Credit.Peter Wald
July 30, 2021Updated 11:43 a.m. ET
Two weeks before Melissa Leigh Hochman of Brooklyn met Dr. Alexander William Peters of Manhattan in January 2017, their train had already come in on the tracks of the new Second Avenue subway, that is.
“We often joke that the new Q train made our relationship possible, as it cut our commute down from 75 minutes to 32 minutes,” said Ms. Hochman, 32, a vice president for digital strategy at Saatchi & Saatchi in Manhattan, who graduated from Boston University.