Owner Takes Park Slope's Pink House Off Market
Local media were abuzz recently when Park Slope’s hard-to-miss pink brownstone on Garfield Place went on the market for nearly $2.3 million, but The Brooklyn Paper reported yesterday that Heights Berkeley Realty, the firm selling the house, took the property off the market due to legal complications. The grandson of owner Bernie Henry, who painted…
Local media were abuzz recently when Park Slope’s hard-to-miss pink brownstone on Garfield Place went on the market for nearly $2.3 million, but The Brooklyn Paper reported yesterday that Heights Berkeley Realty, the firm selling the house, took the property off the market due to legal complications. The grandson of owner Bernie Henry, who painted the house bright pink in the 1960s, “is under investigation for forging key documents that have put a cloud over who has legal ownership of the building,” according to the Paper. As for the ostentatious color of the home, the article mentions that of course a buyer could repaint it, but one local resident commented: “It’s like anything else in life: at first, you hate it because it’s new. But then you come to love it. And then you don’t want it to ever change.”
Famed Pink House Pulled Off Market in Legal Dispute [Brooklyn Paper]
Park Slope’s Pink House 4 Sale [Gothamist]
Photo by Karen Bonna Rainert
i would give both my nuts, a leg, an arm, and half my brain to have that house. it’s BEAUTIFUL! imagine how fun and san francisco-like park slope would be if everyone actually painted their dull boring colored row homes different colors of the rainbow!? for a neighborhood that claims to boast having to many “creative” professionals, it sure is dull and drab from the outside.
*rob*
What about the green house that was next door?
Pepto-bismol.
SAVE THE PINK HOUSE!!!
It’s part of the neighborhood now. It would be missed.
He’s something like 92 years old, I read. He wanted to sell and move to a more manageable place- hope his grandson didn’t screw that up for him.
yes, I know what you mean. Truthfully it really is a horrific color, especially for a brownstone. What would ever possess a person to even imagine painting a Brownstone pink, is beyond me.
But after so many years of seeing it, I think it is just the pink house on the block, it kinda makes a conversation piece. But at least it is taken care of and not painted pink and left to deterioate over the years. The owner does seem to keep it as “pink” as possible…..
Frosted buttercreme.
he’s certainly a colourful character
cool