NY Romeo Finds His Subway Juliet Online

City rallied to track down mystery woman glimpsed on train car
By Mary Papenfuss,  Newser Staff
Posted Nov 9, 2007 10:28 AM CST
NY Romeo Finds His Subway Juliet Online
Michael Harris, executive director of the Disabled Riders Coalition, in a wheelchair second from left, enters the Brooklyn Bridge City Hall subway station during his commute from his place of work in lower Manhattan to Herald Square using the New York City Subway system, Friday Aug. 31, 2007. The commute,...   (Associated Press)

New Yorkers eagerly took up the cause of Patrick Moberg, who spotted the woman of his dreams across a crowded subway car, lost her in the crowd when they both exited the train, and set up a website dedicated to finding her, Reuters reports. Thanks to a citywide outpouring of interest, the woman has now been identified.

Moberg, 21, a web designer, launched the site nygirlofmydreams.com after falling in love at first sight last week with the mystery woman, a brunette with a flower in her hair who has now been identified as a 22-year-old magazine intern from Australia. Now that he has found his woman, Moberg will no longer be updating the website. (More New York City stories.)

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