There seems to be no end of interest in the pink house on Garfield Place. Does that house have a publicist. This from Sunday’s CIty section of the New York Times.   Personally, I love it because it exemplifies the human need to differentiate oneself from the pack.

The brownstone at 233 Garfield Place in Park Slope has the same
carved wood door as the house next door, at No. 235, and the same
stonework as the house at No. 237. What makes No. 233 unique, as
everyone in the neighborhood well knows by now, is something rather
less subtle: its color.

Or is magenta the word for 233 Garfield Place?

 
   

The house has been pink for
decades — since before the Park Slope Historic District was created in
1973 — but turned a brighter shade a few months ago when its owner,
Bernie Henry, gave it a new coat of paint.

“Now,” said Craig
Hammerman, district manager of Community Board 6, “it’s a really bright
magenta. It used to be a softer, pastel-type pink.”

Ever since
Mr. Henry, who is 90, had the house repainted, it has been a magnet for
reporters and attention-seekers. Neighbors rattle off the names of
local television stations that have sent camera crews, and the house
has even attracted its own tourists, as Anne Joseph, who lives on the
next block, discovered when one of them stopped her partner on the
street.

“He said: ‘We’re driving around; we’re from Staten
Island; where is that pink house?’ ” Ms. Joseph recalled one morning
recently.

As for why the house was painted pink in the first
place, Mr. Henry, reached by phone, shed little light on the matter.
“So what’s wrong with the house?” he said. “I’ve been through that
already. Why are you asking me about it? Get somebody else’s house.”

In
the professional opinion of Ken Herbert, a Manhattan resident who the
other day was sitting on the stoop of a nearby brownstone and who owns
a flooring and painting company that was renovating the neighboring
building, the house is “bubblegum pink,” and is one of the strangest he
has seen. But Mr. Herbert