New Dating Tool: Key To The City

Burke and one of her dates

This was inevitable. One, from the sounds of it—very enthusiastic, local has taken her love for the city, and her lookin' for love attitude, and combined it all with the newly launched Key to the City project. And the 26-year-old, Lauren Burke, is now documenting it all over at her “Key 2 The City, Key 2 My Heart: Searching for Love One Lock at a Time" blog.

Burke is determined to visit all 24 locations in Creative Time's scavenger hunt-esque project, which allows key holders to open doors to usually inaccessible places throughout the five boroughs, and with each journey she'll take a new date. She took the NY Times along on one of them this past Sunday, where their destination was the Conference House Park in Tottenville, a Revolutionary War site. (Spoiler alert: the key opens a padlocked space under the pavilion, which houses fish skeletons and empty beer cans. Romantic!)

She's just finished documenting date number 6, and as the Times points out, 3 have had various press outlets tagging along. Maybe you could be lucky number 7?

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By Jen Carlson in Arts & Entertainment on June 24, 2010 11:42 AM

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Uffishthought

Good grief, we were on the Freshkills Park tour with this chick this past weekend and she is so self-involved it's ridiculous: all she did was talk about herself the whole time. "I'm actually considered to be a national expert about blah..." "I wrote a novella in law school..." Blah blah blah blah blah. It was not only awkward to have to listen to first date garbage on a tiny tour bus, but it was also the kind of conversation that makes you want to jump in and ask the person to just shut up for a bit. We felt pretty bad for the guy she was on the date with, actually; he seemed pretty nice.

Cannibal

GROOOOOOOOSSSSSSSSSSSS

dgeee

Will that key unlock the magic door to the mountain of Venus?

spiritross

She believes in love and yet is going on 24 dates?

What if the third guy she goes with hits it off with her?

These lost girls and peter pans are a joke.

JBurke

I just want to let all of you know that she is employed and works extremely hard as a childerns rights lawyer and I am sure is doing things that are much more important to this world than any of you! So don't knock people until you actually know them!

ckl

"So don't knock people until you actually know them!"

Says the guy that just told thousands of people on the internet that some chick is more important than them.