Finding love in NYC is hard — but the ‘Love Train’ is putting hopeless city romantics back on track
NY Post
It’s a bird. It’s a plane. No, it’s Cupid on a train.
Chugging along on the search for a sweetheart can be a bit, well, disheartening — especially for singles of the city.
But rather than looking high and low to no avail, Lisa Wilson, 23, took her hunt to the rails on “Love Train,” NYC’s buzzy, new blind dating experience.
Yes, it’s sight-unseen matchmaking between strangers that occurs on a moving subway pulling in and out of the Union Square station.
“They did a pretty great job with the match,” Wilson, from the East Village, told The Post of Jake, the heartthrob she was paired with on the D train back in October. “He’s a really hot guy.”
With host Tiffany Baira as its “love conductor,” “Love Train,” a social-media viral series, helps hopeless romantics find that special someone during three rounds of cutesy conversation underground.
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