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At the moment, everyone (us included) is obsessed with Love Story, Ryan Murphy’s glossy take on the courtship and marriage of John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy. Can you blame us? The ’90s fashion alone is a master class in understatement and ease, the cast is distractingly beautiful and, let’s be honest, the national fixation on the Kennedy family, and JFK Jr. in particular, has always had a chokehold on America.
Next weekend, New Yorkers especially enamored with the relationship (and with JFK Jr. himself) should make their way to Washington Square Park, where a JFK Jr. lookalike competition is set to take place.
We spotted a flyer for the event circulating on social media and reached out to the Instagram account Hey Hunk, listed as the host, but haven’t heard back yet. Here’s what we do know, per the flyer: the contest is scheduled for Sunday, March 8, at 1pm, right beneath the iconic Washington Square Arch. There’s a $250 cash prize for the contestant who most resembles JFK Jr.—dubbed “the biggest hunk” on the flyer—and while it doesn’t say this explicitly, we wouldn’t be shocked if a swarm of single women started lining up the night before in search of a real-life Camelot.
This isn't the first competition of this kind to take over NYC (a Heated Rivalry contest popped up in Washington Square Park just a few weeks ago, for example), but this one feels a bit more electric—perhaps because the Kennedy mystique never really fades or because JFK Jr. and Bessette-Kennedy died so tragically and prematurely in 1999, freezing them in time as America’s eternal "it" couple.
Whatever the reason, if you’re fully immersed in all things ’90s at the moment, this might be the closest you’ll get to living out your Love Story daydream in real life—so, see you in Washington Square Park next weekend?