THE PEPTO-bismol house has been sold! YUPPIES REJOICE, REBELS CRY.

 Bernie Henry, former owner of the legendary 233 Garfield Place / Photo via NY Daily News

I discovered Park Slope's Pepto-Bismol house while on a tour of the 'hood. I'm not sure how I missed the boldly blush landmark after living here for a year, but I was instantly in awe. Amongst rows and rows of boring brownstones along Garfield, #233 was a bubblegum-wrapped middle finger to tradition and conformity.

Who would dare piss of their prissy neighbors with such a garish paint job, you might ask? Meet Bernie Henry, a 96 year-old retired tailor who has called the four-story townhouse home for 70 years. "It was painted this color accidentally," Henry recently told The Daily News. "They sent me the wrong paint." Judging by his penchant for loud blazers, we ain't buying it. 

Mr. Henry doesn't remember how much he paid for the house (I mean, it's not like people keep records of these things or anything), but who cares, because today he's $2.075 million dollars richer.  The new owners wasted no time in securing permission from the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission to paint over the pink house (something tells me this was a deal breaker for them) and the home also needs at least $800,000 in repairs, a source said. 

I hope the new owners give at least a small nod to the building's pink past: perhaps a single bright pink brick or door knob? If not, I'm forming a welcome wagon to flamingo-bomb the shit out of the place.  Am I just wearing rose-colored glasses or is this the end of an era? Is it good riddance or god dammit, there goes the neighborhood? Regardless, Bernie Henry, we salute you. Cheers to la vie en rose.

[Via NY Daily News]