SJP Bringing Park Slope to the TV Masses
From what we gather, the rumors of Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick being the mystery buyers of the Jennifer Connelly and Paul Bettany mansion on Prospect Park West are not true. The famous Sex and the City actress does have a new connection to street overlooking the park: She’s optioned the rights to Amy…
From what we gather, the rumors of Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick being the mystery buyers of the Jennifer Connelly and Paul Bettany mansion on Prospect Park West are not true. The famous Sex and the City actress does have a new connection to street overlooking the park: She’s optioned the rights to Amy Sohn’s new novel called, not surprisingly, Prospect Park West, and is planning to create a television series out of it. According to MTV, the book “follows four mothers living in the baby-buggie-friendly borough of Brooklyn, and is described as a mix of ‘sex, parenthood and celebrity.'”
“These kids’ families were better off and better educated and the children were happy and healthy like the all-american family of Woody Allen’s girlfriend in the movie Annie Hall.”
Woody Allen’s girlfriend’s family wasn’t happy.
The DOB permits list Periel Aschenbrand as the owner of the PPW mansion. An episode featuring her would be quite interesting.
YEAH, SAUL!! I went to Murrow, but I grew up in Midwood. Why DO so many Slopers go there?
this really was a funny thread, and honestly tho if the stereotypes of park slope were as evasive as people make them seem, i for sure wouldnt continue living here. yes, when u walk around here u ARE going to notice the double wide expensive strollers first, it’s what the neighborhood is mocked for. what do u think people notice first in williamsburd and bushwick., harlem? new yorkers need to lighten up, and i think most park slopers take the criticism with a grain of salt and laugh it off. (tho some of them probably DO go and beat their guatemalan nanny) who knows.
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Joe from Brooklyn: Long Live Saul Bruckner!
hahaha good story joe
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When I was growing up in the 80’s in Marine Park Park Slope was considered a higher-crime area. It wasn’t a “no-go” zone like the worst neighborhoods at the time but it was defintely suppossed to be common knowledge that we were to be grateful that our parents left higher crime neighborhoods such as PS to give us a better life. That being said, once I entered E.R. Murrow (highly rated public school) highschool in the early 90’s I began to meet certain kinds of kids that I never had met before. They spoke and reminded me of people I saw on TV. They spoke standard non-accented English (which means to me they sounded like “hicks”). I always wondered about these kids. These kids’ families were better off and better educated and the children were happy and healthy like the all-american family of Woody Allen’s girlfriend in the movie Annie Hall. So, much like Charles Dickens in Tale of 2 said, (obviously referring to PS in the 80’s) it was the best of times, it was the worst of times…
It is always okay to mock the rich, Troy. That is one of the benefits of not being rich!
Maybe I was too young to notice, Sparafucile, but I disagree. There were even parts of Manhattan that had not yet blown past the yuppification point of no return by the mid-1980s. Maybe I’m thinking of the early 80’s though. By the late 80’s, my friends were comparing PS to the UWS. But I still loved it.