A Yeshiva University student asked his girlfriend for her hand in marriage on a New Jersey Transit bus at New York’s Port Authority — because he said he knew it was the last place she would ever expect a proposal.
Leora Feigenbaum, 20, also a Yeshiva University student, was on her way home to Teaneck, N.J., from Manhattan in March when a Port Authority employee escorted her from the back of the line and onto the bus.
Once on board, she found flowers, decorations and boyfriend Adam Frohlinger, 21, of Long Island, N.Y., holding an engagement ring.
“I’m definitely impressed,” the bride-to-be told the Bergen County Record afterward, clutching roses and flashing a smile that sparkled almost as brightly as the diamond on her finger.
Port Authority and New Jersey Transit officials were in on the fix, helping Frohlinger and some conspiring friends get to the bus without being spotted. Meanwhile, one of Feigen-baum’s childhood friends from Teaneck kept her occupied while texting Frohlinger and his friends to update them.
“This might be the first time this has ever happened at the bus terminal,” Jennifer Friedberg told the Record. She works for the Port Authority and received Frohlinger’s unusual request.
Feigenbaum and Frohlinger met while working at a summer camp in upstate New York two summers ago. They are both juniors at Yeshiva University (she’s enrolled at the school’s Stern College for Women) and are planning an August wedding. — ap