Prabhupāda: This Doubleday Company, they take our books?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Ah...
Rāmeśvara: I don't know.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: I'm not sure.
Rāmeśvara: I don't know. Generally the bookstores, they don't take our books because our distributors are distributing on the street in front of the bookstore, they say it is competition. But the college bookstores, they all take our books. We just got a report from Satsvarūpa Mahārāja that this past month of June in America they sold seventy-five standing orders. And that is remarkable, because all the schools are closed in June, and still they sold them books. They closed for the summer, and still they are ordering your books.
Prabhupāda: In this street I think there is one library office...
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yes, it's Fifty..., it's either Fifty-fifth or Fifty-third, and it's called, it's one of main sub-branches. Yes, it's a very well known one.
Prabhupāda: Free rent?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: "Free rent. Rent a safe deposit box for one year and we'll give you an extra six months free." But first you have to pay for one year. Chemical Bank. Huge buildings now everywhere.
Prabhupāda: This is Rockefeller?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: No, Prabhupāda, now everything looks like the Rockefeller Plaza. All of the buildings are built in that same style. Very opulent. Now every day I look out the window of our building and I think when it will come that we will have one of these buildings. It won't be long. You can see how big these are, Prabhupāda. This is Sixth Avenue.
Prabhupāda: So we are between Sixth Avenue and?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: No, we're between Eighth Avenue and Ninth. Actually our building can be seen from here. Hare Kṛṣṇa is on the outside of it.
Hari-śauri: I can see it just on the left.
Rāmeśvara: Straight ahead.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: It's on the left straight ahead. It's a brown building on the left side.
Hari-śauri: There's a tree on the top.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: It has gold letters going down the side of it saying Hare Kṛṣṇa.
Hari-śauri: It's the brownish one with the white, little white cabin-type thing on the top of it.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: We're very lucky, we rented a garage one block away which can house four buses and twenty vans. Only one block away from it, its very unusual. Otherwise...
Prabhupāda: You have taken the whole garage?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yes, otherwise it's not possible to get parking space in New York. See the "Hare Kṛṣṇa" now, Prabhupāda, on the side of the building?
Prabhupāda: Yes, yes.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Jayānanda, maybe you should park on the right side. We can walk across the street rather than getting out.
Rāmeśvara: Yes, good idea.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Pull over if you can on the right side, then Prabhupāda can see the building from across the street. (break) Yes, at least for the next five or ten years.
Prabhupāda: (laughs) Then you'll have to change again.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Then we want the Empire State Building. (laughter) We have a nice banner which flies in front of the building also. I think you should park on the right side, Jayānanda, unless... All right, park on the left. See the banner?
Prabhupāda: Yes. (end)