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New York City's IT department built the technology to enable online licensing, beginning the first week of May.

\"For the first time in our city's history, New Yorkers will be able to obtain marriage licenses online, and it was our pleasure to build out the technology to enable that,\" said Jessica Tisch, commissioner of the city's Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications.

\"We need moments of joy now more than ever, and we won't let a pandemic get in the way of true love,\" de Blasio said in a statement regarding the new order. \"To all of the couples looking forward to tying the knot, know that your city is right here with you, throwing rice from afar.\"

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