Bureaucrats’ wedded diss

Divorce didn’t undo a New York couple’s 28 years of wedded bliss. Bureaucracy did.

Susan and Franklin Buchweitz tied the knot at Manhattan’s Lincoln Square Synagogue in 1989 — but recently learned that neither the city nor state has proof of their union.

They lived as husband and wife for decades, filing joint tax returns, moving to Suffern in upstate Rockland County and raising their daughter, Johanna, now 24.

But last year, they couldn’t get a copy of their marriage certificate from the city Clerk’s Office.

Now the Buchweitzes — Susan, 63, and Franklin, 73 — fear they’ll lose health-insurance cover- age if they can’t get proof of their union, they said in a Manhattan Supreme Court filing asking a judge to declare them legitimately hitched.

They sought out the certificate last year after Susan Buchweitz’s employers at the Clarkstown Central School District did a periodic review of health-insurance coverage and checked the eligibility of her husband, who “is now disabled and suffers from serious medical issues,” the court petition said.

Rabbi Shlomo Balter, who officiated at the ceremony, said he has written letters confirming the wedding took place. But he can’t find an original record of the event.

The city will investigate the matter, said a Law Department representative.