A modern-day love story of a man spotting the girl of his dreams across a New York subway train and tracking her down over the internet has failed to have a fairytale ending with the relationship now over.

For web designer Patrick Moberg, from Brooklyn, it was love at first sight when he spotted a woman on a Manhattan train last November.

But he lost her in the crowd so he set up a website with a sketch to find her ? www.nygirlofmydreams.com.

Unbelievably in a city of 8 million people, it only took Moberg 48 hours to track down the woman, with his phone ringing non-stop and email box overflowing as usually cynical New Yorkers took sympathy on the subway Romeo and joined his hunt.

The mysterious brunette was named as Camille Hayton, from Melbourne, Australia, who was working as an intern at the magazine BlackBook and also lived in Brooklyn. One of her friends spotted the sketched picture on the website and recognized her.

But after finding each other, appearing on TV and getting international press, the couple took their romance out of the public eye, with Moberg closing down the website.

Hayton told Australian newspaper The Sunday Telegraph that she dated Moberg for about two months but it just didn?t work out. ?I say we dated for a while but now we?re just friends,? Hayton, now 23, told the newspaper. ?It?s really nice that people embraced the story. It is part of my life now. 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??