Illyse Singer and Ty Duncan were having little luck with dating apps until they connected on Tinder more than two years ago and quickly found they had much in common.
Illyse Brittany Singer and Ty Christian Duncan were both disillusioned with dating when they connected on Tinder in October 2022.
“I was on every single dating app and dating all the wrong people but seeking a true partnership,” Ms. Singer said.
“I was just about to give up on the dating scene for a while, but then I met Illyse,” Mr. Duncan said.
The two, who both lived in Brooklyn, matched on Tinder because they both worked in the arts and liked each other’s profile pictures. Mr. Duncan works at Gagosian Gallery in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood, and Ms. Singer at Roxy Cinema, an independent film house in TriBeCa.
At the time, Mr. Duncan, 47, was renting an apartment in Prospect Park. Ms. Singer, 38, had lived in the same apartment in Williamsburg for 18 years, where the couple now reside.
After a flurry of text messages over three days, they met for coffee on Oct. 13 at Sullivan Street Bakery, near Gagosian Gallery. “I thought Illyse was beautiful and seemed very determined,” Mr. Duncan said. They spoke about their shared love of art, music and film and their personal and professional goals.
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