Foreign Property News | Posted by Shwe Zin Win
Hell has frozen over in the East Village.
The Hells Angels’ former headquarters — a famed relic of the neighborhood’s gritty past — is becoming rental apartments.
Real estate speculator Nathan Blatter flipped the six-story building at 77 E. Third St. in a $10 million sale finalized this week.
Now the developer will remake the HQ where bikers cracked their whips on the sidewalk and decorated rooms with swords into a hive of sterile, “standard, regular East Village apartments” for well-heeled millennials — the very population the Angels said they were trying to escape.
“We’re being harassed by the yuppies down here [who are] sitting on our bikes and pissing on the sidewalk,” biker Tony told The Post in March about fleeing the place the gang called home since the ’70s.
“When the neighborhood was s–t, nobody minded us.”
The $2 million renovation will create two retail spaces on the ground floor where the clubhouse bar used to be — and one storefront could become a shrine to the burly bikers.
Blatter said he has been contacted by someone curating a Hells Angels museum, and another about a barber shop.
The new owner, Lower East Side property management company Better Living, hopes to finish the renovation by the end of 2020.
Ref: Property Report
