My sister told me. And she sent me this link to the New York Times piece by Josh Barbanel at 3:41 this morning. Apparently a Google engineer and his wife are moving into THAT house on Prospect Park West vacated by Jennifer Connelly and Paul Bettany. Guess we won't be seeing the twins at the Third Street Playground after all.
It is house with room enough for a movie star with an entourage. But it turns out the stately limestone mansion facing Prospect Park in Park Slope purchased late last year for $8.45 million — a record price for the neighborhood and one of the highest home prices ever in Brooklyn — was actually bought by a wealthy Google engineer and his wife who want to raise their young family away from the hustle and bustle and celebrity of SoHo, where the family now lives.