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‘Knockout Trump’ Truck Gets Out the Vote While You Get Out Some Anger

Posted on September 7, 2016March 23, 2021 by Daniel Maurer

Everyone hates on Donald Trump, and now he’s literally a punching bag— Overthrow, the boxing gym that took over the Yippie building in the East Village, is rolling out…

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Are You Afraid of the Art? Bringing Modern Art Back to the People One Blow at a Time

Posted on December 8, 2015 by Nicole Disser

Alexander Melamid speaks in sweeping terms, which is exactly how you might expect a 70-year-old Russian émigré to see the world.  “If the system sucks, everyone…

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Yippie Building Gym Is Doing Boxing Parties, Selling ‘Jabby Hoffman’ Tees

Posted on December 2, 2014 by Daniel Hoffman

Overthrow NYC, the gym that took over the Yippie Museum building at 9 Bleecker, is finally up and punching: Joey “The Soho Kid” Goodwin tells us…

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On the Ropes, a Champion of Ibogaine Aims to Be Comeback Kid

Posted on November 18, 2014 by Daniel Hoffman

From the looks of yet another “Looking for a Girlfriend” parody flyer, the boxing gym that took over the Yippie building on Bleecker Street is…

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Call Him Jabby Hoffman: This Man Is Spinning the Yippie Building Into a Boxing Gym

Posted on October 28, 2014 by Daniel Hoffman

When a messy foreclosure cleared out the Yippie building and a boxing gym took over 9 Bleecker Street, it was easy to see the development as…

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Yippie Building Becoming a Boxing Gym As Court Fight Goes Another Round

Posted on May 27, 2014 by Mary Reinholz

A location of Crunch just opened at 2 Cooper Square, and now this: a boxing gym is set to replace the Yippie! Museum at 9…

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Steal This Building: Former Yippie HQ Is Up For Grabs

Posted on April 9, 2014 by Elizabeth Flock

The Yippie! Museum, which long served as a home for counterculture and protest movements in Greenwich Village, is up for rent just months after it…

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Remembering Al Goldstein: ‘Pioneer of Free Speech,’ ‘Ralph Kramden of Porn’

Posted on December 20, 2013 by Mary Reinholz

He was arrested numerous times for obscenity and reviled as the devil incarnate by religious figures and feminists. But when pornographer Al Goldstein died at…

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The Yippies’ Deepening Legal Woes Couldn’t Dampen the Pie Man’s Party

Posted on November 14, 2013 by Mary Reinholz

About 50 close friends of Aron Kay gathered in the imperiled Yippie! Museum in Noho yesterday night to celebrate what could be the Yippie Pie Man’s…

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Harsh! Yippie Museum’s Building Manager Wants Pot Activist Kicked to the Curb

Posted on October 14, 2013 by Mary Reinholz

Already fighting foreclosure, the home of the Yippie! Museum faced another buzzkill last week, as attorney Meryl L. Wenig asked a State Supreme Court judge…

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