Wednesday, August 6, 2025

Historic 9 Bleecker St. has a new owner

The for-sale signs are down at 9 Bleecker St., the three-story townhouse just west of the Bowery. 

According to public records, the historic building has a new owner — listed only as 9 Noho New York LLC with an Albany, N.Y. address. 

No. 9 arrived on the sales market last December with a $6.6 million ask. (The recorded sale price earlier this summer was $5.7 million.)

This past November, 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.

New owner, old address — the future of 9 Bleecker St. is TBD. The sales listing for No. 9 stated that it "is primed for transformation into a single-family residence, multi-family with retail, or retained as a prime commercial investment."

Here's hoping whoever moves in has at least some appreciation for the history that has passed through those doors.
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2 comments:

  1. UnknownAugust 6, 2025 at 6:25 PM

    I did not know the Overthrow Boxing Club had closed. I used to see the members practicing boxing out on Bleecker Street in front of the gym when I walked past there. That is too bad they closed.

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  2. John PenleyAugust 7, 2025 at 2:56 AM

    Too bad Dana Beal could not hang on to #9 after many years living there and it even had an Occupy event every week on the ground floor.. Dana would be a multi millionaire now if he was able to keep it after Attorney William Kunstler stalled Dana and other's evictions for years, Actually , when I first came to NYC some Yippie associates sent me there from Atlanta and it was the first place I ever lived at it NYC. We also had a rock and roll illegal club called Studio 10 across the street and it was the first place I was arrested at in the city.

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