Not-So-Long-Distance Relationship Is Bridged by a Proposal Dr. Marianne Jacob and Andrew Shenoy kept up a “distance relationship” for three years until she moved across the Hudson River to a New York hospital. Credit...Sarah Sayeed Weddings April 30, 2021 New Brunswick, N.J., is fewer than 50 miles from New York City, but for Dr. Marianne Jacob and Andrew Shenoy, who were married April 17 at the Basilica of St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral in Lower Manhattan, even that relatively small geographical gap was sometimes difficult to bear. From 2016 to 2019, the couple dated while separated by the Hudson River and three New Jersey counties.