New York Public Library

And people are thanking us for the film.

It's spurring people into action, whether it be they want to start working from the New York Public Library, from the Schomburg Center, or they are talking about... you know, creating salons for themselves, having dinner parties, doing, you know, getting together with various artists and creating a kind of a salon.

That's what it's meant to do.

And having people sort of start reflecting on their own legacies.

Like there was research.

I went to the library and I was sitting there with clippings all of, you know, the New York Public Library, the Performing Arts Library is this amazing place.

It's up by Lincoln Center, and it has all kinds of materials that you can't really find online even.

Like, obviously, online research is important, but it can only take you so far.

And so I went to her memorial service and her lawyer got on stage, a guy named Joe Rosenthal, who since died.

And he got on stage and said, you know, if anyone is interested in her papers, they're at the they're going to be at the New York Public Library Performing Arts Library.

And I thought papers, you know, and I got it.

so excited.

I went, I, I, I called him up.

I called up the lawyer, went and had drinks with the lawyer at the Harvard club.

And then I called up the New York public library and I went to meet with the librarian there.

And she, she let me see the papers weren't even cataloged yet.

You can download it.

There are the Yizkor books, the oral histories of most Eastern European Jewish towns, all digitized online by the New York Public Library.

Many of them have been translated.

There are so many resources for free that every single person can use.

You just kind of show stuff as is.

And I actually watched last night Pretty good documentary on the New York Library that was done in that style called Ex Libris the New York Public Library and it's almost like three hours Just of like stuff that goes on in the library That

sounds like it could be interesting

that's very interesting

Remember he was just talking about Jarikanda and how universal it is and it's very specifically in that way and even in the seven purposes of Visconde there's nothing in it about it's only for a certain kind of person and so forth.

So you have to be able to counterbalance by being very familiar with Prabhupada's books to show people Like once I was in New York City in front of the New York Library distributing with my godbrother.

It was near a yoga studio and a woman in yoga attire, I had handed a Gita to her and she was just handing it back to me saying, no, because you guys look down on women.

And my friend who I was with distributing, he said, no, but this book says we're all actually female.

a long time.

In 1899, the New York Public Library received a query from Ms. Frank E. Butoff who wanted to know if it would add restaurant menus to its growing collections.

The answer was yes.

Ms. Butoff, then 49, spent 25 years visiting restaurants in the city and writing hoteliers and other correspondents abroad, eventually amassing for the New York Public Library 25,000 menus.

Now those menus and thousands of others of collections around the country are being sifted by oceanographers for hints of changes in fish and shellfish population and popularity before good records were kept.

So what they're doing is they're taking these menus from around the world and deciding, well, what were the people in France eating in 1905? In this part of France, in that part of France.

And I love the historical part of it, and I would love to look at the preparations and all those old things.

I think that anthropologically food is really interesting.