Patrick Moberg had seen the girl of his dreams on a crowded Manhattan subway train, and used the to re-find her.

While riding, she looked up from her journal, and their eyes locked. In that moment, his heart was hers. The web designer had every intention of speaking to her, but lost her in the crowds. His mind wouldn’t leave her.

He was determined to find her, and wasn’t bothered that NYC’s 8 million people might make it difficult. He started a website and posted a picture and description of what she was wearing.

His picture of the girl, who was wearing blue shorts, blue tights, and a red flower in her hair, was posted on his website, along with his cell phone number, e-mail address and an appeal for help finding her.

Within hours, Moberg’s inbox was stuffed with emails from New Yorkers eager to help. His phone was ringing non-stop too. After dodging a few calls from women desperate for him to choose them instead (after all, who couldn’t resist a man that devoted to finding true love!) he finally spoke to someone who could confirm her identity. That was the last update to the website.

The young lady is an intern at BlackBook magazine. She’s from Melbourne, Australia but is currently living in Brooklyn.

“In our best interest, there will be no more updates to this website,” Moberg wrote.

BlackBook later ran with the buzz and and used their pool of attractive interns to offer another young woman as a prize in their ‘Win A Date With The Next BlackBook ‘Dream Girl’’ competition.” and offered Carly, a recently-single 22-year-old brunette. (fyi – contest is over.)

And here’s the original image from the website that helped Patrick find his dream girl…