By Vraja Prema
Super rare memorabilia from the early days of ISKCON in New york (Bought on Ebay – not for sale).
My husband found in the magazine The Village Voice (23 June 1966) the advertising , from which Michael (Mukunda Goswami) find for Srila Prabhupada information, for renting the first ISKCON center on the west “The “Matchless Gifts,” on 26 2nd Avenue.
[VedaBase 22. Biographies and Glorification of Śrīla Prabhupāda / Miracle on 2nd Avenue – Mukunda Goswami] All he needed was a decent apartment of some kind, preferably on the ground floor of a building in a better neighborhood.
Experience in loft-hunting had taught me that the Village Voice, a weekly newspaper, was the best resource.
I browsed the “For Rent” section and then, from the nearest pay phone, called a telephone number for a storefront located at 26 Second Avenue, about a halfhour walk from the Bowery.
I got the first available appointment with a Mr. Gardiner and telephoned the Swami and Carl to meet me and Gardiner at the premises at ten o’clock the next morning.
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