Exclusive | Only lovers in the building: NYC doorman set up these 2 neighbors now married with 2 kids

A love story like Ana and Lucas Altman’s could only happen in New York City. The pair didn’t meet through rounds of speed dating, an awkward blind date or a lucky swipe on the apps.For the Altmans, Cupid came in the form of their doorman.Ana and Lucas met in 2011 as neighbors at 11 W.

69th St., a prewar co-op along a tree-lined block off Central Park West.Lucas, a television director for Major League Baseball, had just bought his first apartment, unit 1B.Ana was one of the first residents Lucas and his black lab, Sam, met.Ana, who purchased her apartment in 2009 after graduating from NYU, lived directly across the hall in unit 1D — with her then-boyfriend.

Ana adopted her own dog, Nashville, soon after Lucas arrived.The neighbors quickly struck up a friendship throughout mailroom run-ins and crossing paths during off-leash hours in Central Park.“He was so friendly,” Ana, now 38, told The Post.“You don’t always come across people being so friendly in New York City.

It kind of fits with the character of the building, it feels like a community.”Lucas, now 54, tried not to dwell on how much he enjoyed Ana’s company, given that she was his neighbor and totally off the market.“I tried to force it out of my mind, because I knew that was just dicey,” he told The Post.Little did Ana and Lucas know, their keen-eyed doorman was taking note.Liridon Dautaj, now 52, moved to New York City from Albania in the 1990s.

A friendly man of few words, he has manned the door and cared for the residents at 11 W.69th St.

for 26 years now.He knows the comings and goings of all 40 units, and their occupants all know him by his nickname, Mike.Lucas recalled the summer day in 2014 when he returned home from a trip and greeted Dautaj in the lobby.“I came back … and Mike said, kind of slyly, ‘It’s too bad you were gone this weekend,’” Lucas recalled.

“And I was like, ‘Well, why? What do you mean?’ He goes, ‘Well, you know, I think someone was hopin...