Tim Murphy of New York Magazine’s Daily Intel cornered Maggie Gyllenhaal about the recent move Tribeca flight by Jennifer Connelly and Paul Brittany at the 4th Annual Design on a Dime benefit for Housing Works, an organization devoted to fighting the twin crises of AIDs and homelessness.

So what
does Gyllenhaal think about her fellow Brooklyn celebs, Jennifer
Connelly and hubby Paul Bettany, fleeing the borough? "I don’t know
her" — we found that a little suspect, because we know all about that
SlopeCelebs Yahoo group where they all conspire about the best times to
hit the food co-op without being spotted — "but everyone’s telling me
that she’s leaving, she’s leaving. But she lives in a mansion, like a huge house, and we don’t…"

Our eyebrow involuntarily took flight.

"I mean, we live in a brownstone, it’s huge, it’s big, believe me,
I’m grateful for all the space we have. But I think [Connelly] was
saying that her house was kind of too much. Our house, like, it doesn’t
feel like too much."

She then reiterated that she was glad to be out of Manhattan. And
then she dropped the bomb, one in a string that may eventually restore
Park Slope fully to the unboldfaced, if not the unfinanced: "To be
honest, I’m thinking in the next few years of moving even further
away." Like … to Gowanus? we asked. "To the country," she said…