SJP Slope Rumor Dead and Buried
This weekend the Times officially quashed the rumor that Sarah Jessica Parker bought Jennifer Connelly’s old mansion at 17 Prospect Park West (pictured above before the current renovation that has the building shrouded). The real buyers are a Google employee and his family. The brood is uprooting from Manhattan because of how family-friendly the Slope…
This weekend the Times officially quashed the rumor that Sarah Jessica Parker bought Jennifer Connelly’s old mansion at 17 Prospect Park West (pictured above before the current renovation that has the building shrouded). The real buyers are a Google employee and his family. The brood is uprooting from Manhattan because of how family-friendly the Slope is: I hear people complain about the strollers in Park Slope, the Google engineer said in an interview. But try taking a stroller out in SoHo. SoHo is not exactly family-friendly. The story also works in a couple sanctimonious subtle digs on Brooklyn (“In the last few days, real estate and entertainment bloggers and columnists have been twittering en masse over rumors and reports that the ultimate Manhattan girl, Sarah Jessica Parker, and her husband, Matthew Broderick, had decided to abandon Manhattan, and their 20-foot-wide West Village town house, for a larger place in what, truth be told, is still an outer borough”) and blogs (an SJP spokesperson said “none of the scores of entertainment and real estate Web sites that picked up the story bothered to call to ask about Ms. Parker’s real estate plans”). One detail the Times did leave out: We wrote back on Wednesday that from what we’d heard the rumor wasn’t true.
A Wrong Guess [NY Times]
SJP Bringing Park Slope to the TV Masses [Brownstoner] GMAP
Sarah Jessica Parker to Slope? [Brownstoner]
It’s sarcasm people-
Wait, was it was OK for Jennifer Connely and her husband to own this house, but not “some random google engineer”, or were they also greedy?
traditionalmod, try the same thing with a double stroller! we have 1-year old twins and have been to manhattan oh about twice with them, on holiday weekends only.
and, couldnt agree more DitmasSnark….
I do know for a fact that I don’t give a flying f*ck where SJP lives.
I was saying this very thing when out with our baby-in-stroller in Soho/Nolita/Noho this weekend, that I understood why people go to Brooklyn when they have a child. Crowded sidewalks, noisy restaurants without children so you feel like a freak wheeling one in there, clusters of Euro-hipsters hanging out on the curb cuts and not budging an inch when you approach so you can’t get by with your stroller (or even without a stroller). Those neighborhoods really are best for childless couples and young singles.
My favorite part of the story was that the guy asked not to be named because google workers apparently still work side by side, desk to desk, with newer, less unbelievably lucky google workers who didn’t make bazillions through stock when google went public.
“still an outer borough” Yes! Thank G-d for that!!
Sarah Jessica Parker is ugly… there, I said it.
Did you mean: You ain’t the Queen of England…*Rob*
-Google
I do know for a fact that SJP has looked at and is looking at a few places in Brooklyn Heights b/c they have friends there. Not Park Slope.