First, there was a listing to buy the building via Corcoran for $6.6 million.
More recently, the space showed up for lease via RealNY... the floors are available for retail or office space...
This past Nov. 7, after 10 years at No. 9, Overthrow closed its boxing gym on the ground floor. As ownership wrote on Instagram: "Unfortunately, we took on immense debt during and post-Covid, which kept the doors open, but we can no longer afford our current lease, and the building has been listed for sale by the owner, making staying open unsustainable."
This one-time home (41 years) of the Yippies, named and created by Abbie Hoffman and Paul Krassner, ended in January 2014 after a protracted legal battle. (Read this archived story in the Times for all the legal wrangling and history.)
Overthrow was named after one of the countercultural newspapers that the Yippies published here.
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