The color pink symbolizes many things: femininity, love, youth, happiness, joy.
It’s about passion without aggression, and pink roses are given to convey gratitude and appreciation.
It’s an unusual color to paint a brownstone or tenement. Yet pink buildings are all over New York.
With cherry blossom season upon us and parts of the city about to be draped in fragile pink leaves for a few weeks, it’s a good time to highlight some of the pinkest houses on the streets of New York.
Like the sweet little brownstone (top left) with the red trim on Kingston Avenue in Crown Heights.
Or the pink rowhouse near the Bedford Park 4 station in the Bronx (top right).
I love this pale pink tenement at left, on Grand and Orchard.
The Lower East Side can look kind of grim; it gives the neighborhood a jolt of color.
The three-story pink brownstone on the right is part of the Mott Haven Historic District in the South Bronx.
And finally, twin hot pink residences on Prince Street near West Broadway.
Tags: cherry blossoms in New York City, New York City tenements, New York street, pink brownstones, Pink houses New York City, what pink symbolizes
March 31, 2011 at 5:16 pm |
You guys missed this building:
April 5, 2011 at 3:56 pm |
East 5th Street: http://frankfcf.com/218east5thstreet.jpg
March 31, 2011 at 5:59 pm |
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April 1, 2011 at 4:26 am |
How could you exclude Palazzo Chupi?
April 1, 2011 at 1:59 pm |
Good point! For the uninitiated, here’s Julian Schnabel’s fuschia palace:
http://guestofaguest.com/nyc-real-estate/julian-schnabel-takes-a-bath-a-brief-history-of-the-palazzo-chupi
April 1, 2011 at 3:51 pm |
Wasn’t there a really bright pink house in Park Slope (like Pepto-Bismol color), near Prospect Park?
April 2, 2011 at 1:24 am |
On Garfield near 7th ave in Park Slope
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=garfield+and+7th+ave&layer=c&sll=40.672318,-73.977056&cbp=13,71.88,,0,-20.55&cbll=40.671875,-73.976143&hl=en&gl=us&sspn=0.006295,0.006295&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=7th+Ave+%26+Garfield+Pl,+Brooklyn,+Kings,+New+York+11215&ll=40.672037,-73.976483&spn=0,0.006577&t=h&z=17&panoid=PVBxWon4rcxEXwltLs08Pg
April 4, 2011 at 1:59 am |
You also missed a quite famous one on the Upper East Side. Al Hirschfeld’s pink house was landmarked after he died and the landmark stipulates that the house must remain pink. The house just sold for $5.3 million.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703960804576120570140843098.html?mod=WSJ_NY_RealEstate_LEFTTopStories
April 4, 2011 at 2:04 am |
That’s a beauty–thanks for the link.
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May 11, 2011 at 9:17 pm |
the last two buildings are on Prince ST not Bleecker
and are Civil War era
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February 7, 2014 at 12:18 am |
Or this one:
http://maps.gstatic.com/m/streetview/?oe=UTF-8&hl=en&client=safari&ie=UTF-8&layer=c&z=17&iwloc=A&sll=40.732349,-73.999411&cbp=13,199.9,0,0,0&cbll=40.732536,-73.999322&q=114+waverly+place&ei=6SX0UtTZH9WhsQSK3oDgDQ&ved=0CCQQxB0wAA
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