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No. 9 this past Saturday]
Here's more information about the three-level
boxing gym opening at 9 Bleecker, the former home of the Yippies.
The gym will be called Overthrow Boxing Club, named for
Overthrow, one of the countercultural newspapers that the Yippies published here.
In a video posted on June 15, Throwback partner Joey Goodwin, aka
"the Soho Kid," a Golden Gloves contender and creative director at men's clothing label
Unruly Heir, provides a quick overview of the space.
"We're going to turn this into a great spot, and a great business and make some good things happen," he says. "It's going to be boxing meets punk rock ... we're going to keep the history, keep the heritage, and go from there."
And now the video...
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 vacate their home of 41 years this past Jan. 17 while litigation continued. The space here near the Bowery had been on the market for $22,500 in monthly rent.
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
Fights of a different kind coming to 9 Bleecker St., longtime home of the Yippies