That's an insane amount of pink. I'll be interested to see it returned to its former brown self.

I don't know why people get so twigged about bright colours on a house. I've seen some beautiful buildings in both Europe and Mexico that are bright as crayons and are spectacular.

Hot pink building in Bacelona: http://www.flickr.com/photos/k2yhe/4506380635/

Lime green building in Playa del Carmen: http://www.flickr.com/photos/k2yhe/4506924892/in/set-72157623821618514

Tangerine apartment building in Mexico: http://www.flickr.com/photos/k2yhe/6982697259/in/set-72157631712918164

I lived in that neighborhood for years, and I'm happy to hear the new owners are repainting. I appreciate row houses in different colors, but this was a truly garish pink, and it looked much worse with age when the paint started to peel. The darker colors stand up to the elements better.

I think bright colors look great in warm climates.

In cold climates they can easily look garish, especially if it's all one color, and in this case it detracts from the beautiful details.

It's kind of funny that they had to get permission to turn it back to brown, since it was already pink when that historic district was created. Ah, first world problems....

We live a few blocks from this place and we get a kick out of the pink. But the important thing is what the owners want. I don't understand why the owners had to get permission to paint it... they own it! Oh, the neighborhood busybodies never stop.

I don't really like the pink, not because it's pink but I think it's the shade of pink. I am kind of sad though that it's being painted brown. It would be nice if it was painted a few different colours (earth tones) to enhance the architecture of the building. But...given this seems to be a historical area I could see getting multiple colours would be hard.

They had to "get permission" because it's in a landmark historic district. Any change to the exterior of a building in a landmark district has to be approved, and typically the design has to go back to the original look/color. It's likely that the pink paint happened before the area was designated as a landmark area (which I think was 1973) and therefore the color was grandfathered in.

I think brightly colored homes like this only look good in the right context. It doesn't necessarily have to be a warm climate, but it is too out of place with the rest of the brownstones. If the whole block was painted an array of bright colors (which I'm not suggesting) I think it would look great.

With landmark status homes, you have to get approval from the LPC for everything you do to the facade.

Living in a place where we would never see this sort of paint job outside, I like the pink.

I think it was sacrilege to paint the brownstone pink and it looks fugly.

@k2yhe, brightly coloured homes in southern locations are one thing, in northern locations they another thing. You really can't compare the two.

As much as I love pink, I am happy to see it go.

I grew up near that house in Brooklyn and walked by it all the time. Even if it was an eyesore, it will be greatly missed as a standout.

How sad. I used to live across the street, and always found the house to be such a great landmark. ("Look for the pink house; we're across the street, one house closer to seventh ave.") It will be missed.

Agreed that it is an eyesore but sometimes an eyesore can be missed. Our local "house of Davids" went on the market:

http://la.curbed.com/archives/2011/05/house_of_davids_is_for_sale_for_24_million_lets_look_inside.php

It's horrible and a loophole for "restoration" should have been placed in the historic district designation in the first place. It's a brownSTONE, people. Not a "painted lady" wood sided Victorian. Just because somebody had hippie inclinations in the early 70's does not justify keeping it that color all this time. SOOOO glad it's going to be tamed.

"Can't compare the two"? That's absurd! There are many places where brightly coloured house are up here in the Northeast. Brightly coloured Victorians are just one instance that springs to mind. There are also some coastal areas in Massachusetts and Rhode Island where the fishermen who live there have painted their houses in the brightest turquoises, yellows, blues, etc...

The hot pink building is in an historic district, and many of the structures in the immediate area are rather somber gray stone.. All a matter of taste, and perhaps culture, but not necessarily climate. As someone once said, first-world problems.

I had meant to say, "the hot pink building in Barcelona is in an historic district..."

Good.

I live in this neighborhood and our brownstone has very little brownstone remaining. Someone grafittied (oddly with latex paint) and we had to paint over it. The local hardware store knew exactly what color paint to give us.

I understand the landlmarks requirement but there's a heck of a lot of brown in Park Slope.

@SherryBinNH Speaking as a former hippy, a hippy would never paint something such an unnatural color as that brownstone was painted.

BORING!

The pink is indeed ugly, and disrespectful of the history and architecture of the street.

@chartreuse -- So hippies dislike unnatural colors? Have you ever seen a tie-dye shirt?

That neighborhood must feel like a piano where one note has been horribly out of tune. Now the whole panorama will feel more harmonious again.

I disagree that bright colors only belong in warm climates. I remember seeing bright (if somewhat faded) colors in St. Petersburg, Russia and thinking, this is a great way to brighten up the cityscape when there are long periods of darkness in the winter.