[EVG file photo from April]
Back in January, workers began clearing out the 41-year-old home of the Yippies at 9 Bleecker St. near the Bowery. The three-story brick building has been the centerpiece in a long-running foreclosure battle. (Read this story in the Times from January for all the legal wrangling.)
Yesterday, EVG reader Thomas Anomalous spotted workers gutting the space. Someone had swept out old copies of The Yipster Times, one of two countercultural newspapers once published here.
As the Times reported in June 2013, Steven L. Einig, a lawyer for Centech, which holds the building's mortgage, "stated that Yippie Holdings, which bought Number 9 along with a nonprofit called the National AIDS Brigade, had failed for more than five years to make payments on the $1.4 million mortgage."
For their part, a lawyer for Yippie Holdings, said that the group was "compelled into foreclosure with payments being rejected" by Centech as part of a scheme or plan to take over the building.
The Yippies had to be out on Jan. 17 for new tenants while the fight continued about No. 9's ownership. As we first reported last November, the building was on the market as a rental.
According to that listing, the space — asking $22,500 in monthly rent — has been rented.
Bedford + Bowery reported that the space will be converted into a boxing gym.
Previously on EV Grieve:
The Yippie Museum Cafe is in financial trouble
The Yippie Museum Cafe will reopen next Wednesday
A bad sign at the Yippie Museum
Last day for the Yippies at No. 9 — for now
Wow, though Alice and her mega buck trust fund would have saved this and turned it into a cat cafe.
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ReplyDeleteOr Dana himself! What did he do with all that money he made over the decades selling product?
Well, it appears he is broke now, having to scrounge for a place to stay now in the city, after he got released.
When I was younger I use to hang out at number 9, and studio 10.. Was able to sit around on the second floor too.when studio 10 was taken back by the land lord some folks stayed over in number nine... Until Alan the sound man threw these people out one of them said a curse and now fair play it has come there way like they say up in smoke....
ReplyDeleteMedia hypes who were really just in it for the green...
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