{"id":1383,"date":"2006-08-07T10:19:52","date_gmt":"2006-08-07T18:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/08\/the_face_of_gentrification_is_heath_ledger.html"},"modified":"2006-08-07T10:19:52","modified_gmt":"2006-08-07T18:19:52","slug":"the_face_of_gen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/08\/the_face_of_gen.html","title":{"rendered":"The Face Of Gentrification Is . . . Heath Ledger"},"content":{"rendered":"

Heath and Jennifer Connelly are driving up prices<\/a>:<\/p>\n

There’s a certain breed of New York celebrity who’s too cool for uptown, but craves a brownstone block. They seek leafy streets with the scale of the West Village, but shy away from the throngs and the spotlight.<\/p>\n

Meet fame on the down-low — celebs who live in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n

The roster of Hollywood A-listers, music-industry powerhouses, authors and artisans who reside in the Borough of Kings is top-notch.<\/p>\n

Wander over to the Grand Army Plaza subway station in Park Slope and you might catch Jennifer Connelly looking “beautiful and fragile, with no makeup on and dressed in jeans, a brown sweater, and sleeveless green vest,” as one fellow Brooklynite described her, as she takes her eldest son to school weekday mornings.<\/p>\n

Over on Atlantic, see Heath Ledger — who, with Michelle Williams, is raising a daughter, Matilda, in Boerum Hill — ducking into a deli Sunday morning for bottled water.<\/p>\n

Later in the week, Williams may pop by Smith Street lingerie store Andie Wee while actors Emily Mortimer — spotted having trouble finding her wallet in Cobble Hill’s Pacific Green grocery — and Alessandro Nivola push a stroller along the sidewalk outside.<\/p>\n

. . .<\/p>\n

While hardly a new phenomenon — there’s always been a diaspora of celebrities eking out low-profile lives in nearly every part of New York — Brooklyn has outgrown its edgy, destitute-art-student reputation of years gone by. It has come into its own as a magnet for some of the most sought-after talents in the entertainment industry.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yes, can’t wait for “A Beautiful Mind II: The Really Senile Years.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Heath and Jennifer Connelly are driving up prices: There’s a certain breed of New York celebrity who’s too cool for uptown, but craves a brownstone block. They seek leafy streets with the scale of the West Village, but shy away from the throngs and the spotlight. Meet fame on the down-low — celebs who live […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,4,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brooklyn","category-real_estate","category-there_goes_the_neighborhood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}