Sarah Jessica Parker might be moving to Brooklyn. Rumors are swirling in Park Slope that Parker, 44, and hubby Matthew Broderick, 47, are the secret owners of a stunning prewar Victorian townhouse on Prospect Park West. The home was formerly owned by Jennifer Connelly and Paul Bettany, who left for TriBeCa last year, and sources say that a company affiliated with Parker bought the townhouse.
A rep for the “Sex and the City” star denies Parker is Brooklyn-bound, but the home was purchased for $8.45 million last December by a limited liability company called Harken Pretty, which sounds pretty similar to SJP’s production company, Pretty Matches. The double-wide townhouse has scaffolding in front of it and is undergoing a gut renovation.
It has nine bedrooms and 3½ bathrooms and is much larger than the couple’s current West Village townhouse. We’re told the scaffolding should come down soon, but the home is getting a complete change of floor plan that could take more than a year to complete. Even the garden has been torn up.
The outer borough could make sense for Parker and Broderick’s growing brood: James Wilkie, 6, and newborn (to a surrogate mother) twins, Marion Loretta Elwell and Tabitha Hodge.
“Prospect Park West” is also the title of hot author Amy Sohn‘s new Brooklyn mommy chick-lit book, where the lives of four moms — including an actress character loosely based on Connelly — collide. Parker’s Pretty Matches has optioned the book. Sohn is writing the TV pilot and says HBO could decide by September whether or not to start filming.
Puck fare
Hunky hockey star Scott Gomez‘s bachelor pad in the Chelsea Mercantile building on Seventh Avenue should soon be on the market, sources say. Gomez, whom the New York Rangers traded to Montreal on Tuesday, bought the three-bedroom, three-bathroom condo for $3.2 million in 2007. It comes with a 31-by-32-foot terrace and a grill — perfect if you want to invite neighbor and grill king Bobby Flay over.
Gomez signed a seven-year contract for $51.5 million in July 2007, bought the apartment in September 2007 and launched a major renovation. The former Rangers center is out of town, boating we’re told, and could not be reached for comment.
Meanwhile, ex-Ranger Darius “Kaspar” Kasparaitis has listed his two-bedroom, two-bath condo on East 59th Street for $2.595 million. It’s also available for rent at $7,995 a month. Kasparaitis is currently playing in Russia. The condo comes with a gas fireplace and a balcony. Prudential Douglas Elliman’s Victoria Shtainer has the listing.