Jennifer Connelly explains Brooklyn exodus

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Actor couple Jennifer Connelly and Paul Bettany recently swapped their Park Slope mansion at 17 Prospect Park West for a penthouse apartment in Manhattan. Connelly, best known for her turns in “A Beautiful Mind” and “He’s Just Not That into You,” and Bettany, who took on a villainous role in “The Da Vinci Code,” found their new home at 288 West Street, which cost a reported $6.99 million according to Curbed, and was less “creepy” than the Park Slope spot, according to Connelly. On last Friday’s “Late Night with Conan O’Brien,” Connelly revealed that her children were so skeeved out by the family’s Brooklyn mansion that they slept on her bedroom floor to avoid being alone, causing her concern that child services might intervene.