Park Slope's Pink House 4 Sale

Photo via Matt Carman's flickr

Step right up, this beauty could be yours. Owner Bernie Henry coated his four-story brownstone on Garfield Place with this Pepto-pink color just three years ago (about 47 years after he moved in). The retired tailor told the Daily News, "I'm 92. It's time to get rid of it. It's a lot of money to keep it up ... I'm going to buy a smaller house around the corner." He says his new home will not get the same color treatment; in fact, he tells the paper he never meant to paint this one in such a garish hue, saying: "They sent me the wrong paint. It was painted this color accidentally."

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By Jen Carlson in Arts and Events on October 13, 2009 11:28 AM

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monadh

I live on the block. It's been pink since the late 60's and the color was grandfathered in when the neighborhood was landmarked, longer than most of the people who live here. Rumor has it he did it for his wife. While I like the traditional browstones, I actually like the color, especially in the doldrums of winter.

untitledcat

he's 92, give him a break.

Stealth

Which is probably why the house is pink. He needed a color he could make out to know which house was his.

Probably.

books

if he moved in 50 years - he probably paid what 15K, 30K for it? Now it's selling for 2 million? wow.

henryhamilton

The fact that the neighbors hate it, is the only reason worth doing it. It was painted by acccident? Thats just like saying FUCK YOU! God. I love this guy.

Aveais Essex

People take this stuff too seriously. Who cares if it's pink? It's just a house. Sure, it's grossly different than all the other brownstones in the Slope, but is that a bad thing? It's not like someone tore down a brownstone and replaced it with something completely out of character with the neighborhood...it's the same old structure with a thin veneer of paint on it. And if anything, it probably raises the value of the surrounding homes.

"Yeah, I live next to the pink house. How quirky!"

Way too much emphasis on material things that aren't yours anyway.

Chillinoncentral

Maybe one of the advertising execs over at The Procter & Gamble Company would want to use it in an upcoming Pepto-Bismol commercial… there might be an incentive for them to do so because I actually have a stomach ache just looking at the picture of what was done to this otherwise beautiful property!

jibbly

Mr. Pink: Mr. Pink sounds like Mr. Pussy. How 'bout if I'm Mr. Purple? That sounds good to me. I'll be Mr. Purple.

Joe: You're not Mr. Purple. Some guy on some other job is Mr. Purple. You're Mr. PINK.

Mr. White: Who cares what your name is?

Mr. Pink: Yeah, that's easy for your to say, you're Mr. White. You have a cool-sounding name.

chuzzlewit

nice.

okay ramblers, let's get rambling.

Snoopy

How do you buy all that paint and after opening the first can couldn't realize that oops I think they shipped the wrong color. I don't believe that is a stock off the shelf color. It had to be mixed special for one of a kind special guy.

Well there is always aluminum siding or brickcote to cover up the mess.

NYCSniper

Wait'll you see what he did to the INSIDE!!!

valeriob

Bernie Henry I will give you 7 Canadian Dollars for your house.

valeriob

No pictures of the outside on the listing.

Mr. Shankly

Coats, soothes, relieves.

Jester Jaimi

Pepto Abysmal!

Nyctini11

I love it! but, i love pink, this would make me smile to come home to every day... BUT, I wouldn't do that to my neighbors.

Dirk

They sent the wrong paint, but he used it "accidentally". Right...

blueruin

Brownstone does not do well with paint. A very porous material. Hard to get that shit off once you get it on.

Not to mention that it traps moisture in the stone and generally shortens its lifespan.