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 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]

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I hope this house is big enough for his wife and family...

(yes, I'm bitter and jealous. suck on it.)

Posted by: tybur6 at July 13, 2009 9:39 AM

i think it's greedy that some random google engineer needs/wants a house this large. u aint the queen of england you know!

*rob*

Posted by: PitbullNYC at July 13, 2009 9:46 AM

I say congrats to the new owners!! You bought an awesome house! And to the haters "don't hate the player - hate the game!"

Posted by: Leffertslodger at July 13, 2009 10:03 AM

@Pitbull
It's a pre-existing house! It's greedy for someone to use a building that was built decades ago for that exact purpose?
It's not like they're knocking down a small limestone for a McMansion.

Posted by: Rookie at July 13, 2009 10:04 AM

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.

Posted by: columbiatch at July 13, 2009 10:06 AM

Did you mean: You ain't the Queen of England...*Rob*

-Google

Posted by: IMBY at July 13, 2009 11:02 AM

Sarah Jessica Parker is ugly... there, I said it.

Posted by: tybur6 at July 13, 2009 11:10 AM

"still an outer borough" Yes! Thank G-d for that!!

Posted by: bxgrl at July 13, 2009 11:13 AM

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.

Posted by: Nokilissa at July 13, 2009 11:57 AM

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.

Posted by: traditionalmod at July 13, 2009 12:04 PM

I do know for a fact that I don't give a flying f*ck where SJP lives.

Posted by: DitmasSnark at July 13, 2009 1:06 PM

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....

Posted by: woodys at July 13, 2009 1:16 PM

It's sarcasm people-

Posted by: Brooklynchimp at July 13, 2009 6:28 PM

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