Huh? What? But OTBKB and the Daily News said that it was for sale. I'm confused now. What's going on?
Well, the Brooklyn Paper is saying that owner Bernie Henry pulled the house off the market because of a supposed dispute with a grandson. Here's an excerpt fromt he BP story:
Don’t believe everything you read: The famous “Pink House” of Garfield Place is not for sale.
Bloggers and even the Daily News were buzzing this week that Bernie Henry, who famously painted his classic Park Slope brownstone salmon pink in the 1960s, was selling the empty nest and moving to a smaller place nearby.
But the house is not on the market, a real-estate source told The Brooklyn Paper, because Henry’s grandson is under investigation for forging key documents that have put a cloud over who has legal ownership of the building.
Henry, 92, said he couldn’t speak about the matter on Wednesday because his ailing wife had just died
Not to be confused with the Ex-Lax Building