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]
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Sarah Jessica Parker to Slope? [Brownstoner]