New York Subway Love: Patrick Moberg Finds Camille Hayton

How many times have you spotted a beautiful girl on a subway, lost her, decided to find her, created a dedicated website for it, started a new internet sensation and finally found her. Patrick Moberg spotted Camille Hayton, on a New York subway and the subway love story began…

Patrick Moberg Searches For New York Subway Girl

Patrick Moberg fell in love at first sight when he spotted Camille Hayton while taking the train from Manhattan to Brooklyn. The train stopped and he lost her. Then he set up a website “New York Girl of My Dreams” at NYGirlOfMyDreams.com to find her. He drew a picture of the girl wearing blue shorts, blue tights, and a red flower in her hair. He added his mobile phone number, email address and an appeal for help in finding her.

Patrick Moberg Finds Camille Hayton

As the city buzzed and a new internet sensation started, he was finally contacted by someone who knew her and now the website shows “Found Her! Seriously!”. The mysterious subway brunette Camille Hayton, is Australian magazine Blackbook intern. Patrick Moberg works at Vimeo.

The pair appeared on Good Morning America, ABC’s television breakfast show and shared their views about this event. Gawker has the interview video. More at ABC news. The final update on the site says “Unlike all the romantic comedies and bad pop songs, you’ll have to make up your own ending for this.”

Source: The Telegraph - Love at first site on the New York subway

Update: Now Blackbook magazine (employer of intern Camille Hayton) introduces you to some more eligible female entrepeneurs - Carly, a marketing intern. You could win a date with the next BlackBook Dream Girl.

Update (July 2008) - The lovers split up.

“I think the situation was so intense that it bonded us,” she said, adding it “bonded us in a way that you could mistake, I guess, for being more romantic than it was. I don’t know. But I wanted to give it a go so I didn’t wonder what if, what if?”