The Yippies Apply for a Piece of Establishment
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A man named “Kenny the coke freak” once lived in the basement of the three-story brick building at 9 Bleecker St., just off the Bowery. In the early 1970s, when Kenny no longer could pay the rent, the Yippies moved in.
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