HOTD: Connelly, Bettany Dumping 17 Prospect Park West
[nggallery id=”21090″ template=galleryview] Two of Brownstone Brooklyn’s biggest celebs have put their Prospect Park West mansion on the market and are moving to the West Village. In a post this morning, Curbed reported that Jennifer Connelly (who grew up in Park Slope) and actor hubby Paul Bettany are in contract on a $7 million penthouse…
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Two of Brownstone Brooklyn’s biggest celebs have put their Prospect Park West mansion on the market and are moving to the West Village. In a post this morning, Curbed reported that Jennifer Connelly (who grew up in Park Slope) and actor hubby Paul Bettany are in contract on a $7 million penthouse at 288 West Street. Lest you fear for their ability to come up with the dough, however, we’ve discovered that they stand to clear $8,500,000 on the sale of their limestone mansion at 17 Prospect Park West. The 5,200-square-foot house, which the couple bought for $3,700,000 back in 2003, has to be the nicest house to come to market in a looooong time. Check out these pics!
17 Prospect Park West [Sotheby’s] GMAP P*Shark
yes 5:08, no need to chuckle. I realize this. It’s just that many of these grand houses have been updated to include an upstairs kitchen. This was has not. It has a little wet bar. I know this house well, and it would be FANTASTIC if you lived with a staff. If you are a 21st century family without a household of people living-in, than it’s difficult. Or, you spend a lot of tiem in the basement.
This place on the Upper East Side would sell for 30 million.
On Central Park West, maybe 25 Million.
Easy.
A DEAL at 8.5 mil
it’s not staging. it is their stuff.
Un effing believable how ugly their new place is. Does not compute.
Wow, what a great house. I can see myself boinking Jennifer in dozens of different places throughout.
“anyway, the floorplan is odd with a kitchen in the basement and the FDR one flight up.”
I’m chuckling at this comment because, fact is, this floor plan is not “weird” at all. Guess what? When this house was built, the kitchen would not have been a hang out or show off place the family! The kitchen was where the hired help prepared the meals (which they then had the burden of toting upstairs to the formal dining room.) The kitchen was not even a room to be frequented by the owners or seen by their guests. Presumably, those with the bucks to buy this place today are those in a position to carry on that Upstairs/Downstairs traditon.
Really, Kuroko? From what I know, you have to spend way more than this in Manhattan for a house. I know someone with a $11 million Manhattan townhouse and they only have 1000 more squuare feet than we have in our $1.5 million 2-story Brooklyn house. If you are looking at a bigger size like this in a good school district near a park, you’re talking $20 million in Manhattan.
I heard from a handyman who has worked in this house that there is a HUGE mold problem in the house
I don’t know if they are going to get 8.5 million but this is a killer house. Flat out one of the best houses to come along in a while.
I love Brooklyn, but I’d have a hard time laying down this kind of scratch when so much of Manhattan could be had for this price.