Police Officer Albert Mannon plays matchmaker on Coney Island Boardwalk

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http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/police-officer-albert-mannon-plays-matchmaker-coney-island-boardwalk-lovebirds-introduced-engaged-article-1.1130328

It looks like Cupid has traded in his arrow for a badge.

Police Officer Albert Mammon, 32, played matchmaker on the Coney Island Boardwalk earlier this summer — and this month, two of the lovebirds he introduced got engaged.

It started as a quiet night in Coney Island on May 23, and though it wasn't still springtime, a young officer's fancy turned to love.

Mammon said he spotted a trio of long-skirted young women celebrating their last college final and another threesome of men further down the historic plankway.

Mammon advised the yarmulke-wearing men to approach the women.

"I was doing it more for safety," said Mammon.

Initially, the women were not impressed. "[The men] asked where we were from. We said, 'Brooklyn — now bye,' " recalled Chava Dan, 20.

But Mammon would not be deterred, ordering everyone to "be a little nicer."

"You can't let things like that just go," he remembered.

In the end, the group hit it off, especially the Boardwalk beauty Dan, a psychology student at Touro College, and Mordy Steinmetz, 23, a retail store worker. The two embarked on a whirlwind romance, which culminated in a candlelit dinner proposal on a Park Slope rooftop.

"It was just perfect," Dan said.

Her friends, Rutty Gottlieb, 20, and Chevie Boland, 19, wanted to share the good news with the cop, who they discovered worked out of the Coney Island stationhouse.

To their surprise, Mammon's colleagues immediately knew who they were talking about — once they explained he frequently used comical Yiddish phrases.
The bachelor cop plans to attend the Sept. 2 nuptials.

I wonder if marriage via cop helps one's chances of a lasting relationship.

[Tamas]

Chava? Mordy?

Cop telling people to keep socializing?

[CountDeMoney]

Cop telling people to keep socializing?

Goddamned right.

[Ed Anger]

Chava? Mordy?

Do those strange jewish names frighten you?

Chava is Eve in Heeb and I assume Mordy is a shortened of Mordecai.

[The Larch]

When are they doing the mandatory rom-com? I assume Jennifer Aniston will star.

[Scipio]

You cannot serve both God and Mannon!

[Eddie Teach]

"[The men] asked where we were from. We said, 'Brooklyn — now bye,' " recalled Chava Dan, 20.

Maybe her name fits.

[Syt]

Also, no references yet to "Goodbyy, My Coney Island Baby" yet?

Oh,
Goodbye my Coney Island baby,
farewell my one true love, (true love) (my honey)
I'm gonna go away and leave you
never to see you any (never gonna see you any)
I'm gonna sail upon that ferry boat,
never to return again (return again)
so goodbye, farewell, so long forever,
Good bye my Coney Isle, Good bye my Coney Isle, Good bye my Coney Island

We all fall for some girl that dresses neat,
some girl that's got big feet,
we meet her on the street.
Then we'll join the
army of married boobs
to the altar
Just list leading lambs to slaughter (alternate: "Don't forget to wash the dishes")
When it's over, oh boy we get it good,
bachelor days we then recall...

Rich man, poor man, beggar man, theif,
doctor, lawyer, merchant, chief,
we all, are bound for...

Goodbye my Coney Island baby,
farewell my one true love, (true love) (my honey)
I'm gonna go away and leave you
never to see you any (never gonna see you any)
I'm gonna sail upon that ferry boat,
never to return again (return again)
so goodbye, farewell, so long forever,
Good bye my Coney Isle, Good bye my Coney Isle, Good bye my Coney Island Babe!
(Bye my Coney island Babe!)