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So they already crashed a (fake) funeral, and now they've gone and crashed the nuptials of two young New Yorkers in love. A couple had just finished tying the knot at the City Clerk’s Office in Manhattan when they were greeted by Improv Everywhere's Charlie Todd, and here's what happened:

Yesterday, the NY Post revealed that the dingy Manhattan Marriage Bureau would be getting a deluxe makeover. First of all, the City Clerk's Office will move from 1 Centre Street at the Municipal Building to 80 Centre Street. Second, Mayor Bloomberg's personal decorator, Jamie Drake, will be overseeing the redesign - at a discount (we doubt the new bureau will have the touches that Mayor B's swank townhouses do), but the budget is still $13 million.

Anyone who has had to wait on line at any state or city agency will love this story. A couple went to the Bronx Supreme Court yesterday because they waned to get a marriage license. Jonathan Figueroa and Marjorie Lumbano waited on line for an hour and made it to the front by 3PM, well before the 4PM closing time. Only they were turned away because the workers were having a retirement party for a colleague. The Post got involved:

In vain, [the couple] tried knocking on other offices in the courthouse - until a court officer finally told them to seek help in the press room.

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Councilman John Liu of Flushing said that there is no proof the alarms work and that "there is an overabundance of evidence that blaring car alarms annoy the living daylights out of people." That's one astute council-member. Flushing residents be proud.