Vedanta Society of New York--What Is Vedanta?

"...in November of 1894, he founded a Vedanta Society in New York, the first Vedanta Society in the West in which his ideas, his spirit, and his power would be preserved without being watered down..." --Marie Louise Burke, (Preface of "The Vedanta Society of N.Y., A brief History)"

Founded by Swami Vivekananda in 1894
Spiritual Leader: Swami Tathagatananda
Ramakrishna Order of India

Where We Are
The Vedanta Society of New York is located at 34 West 71st street on the west side of Central Park in Manhattan, New York, a few blocks south of the Museum of Natural History and a few blocks north of Lincoln Center.

Present Home, 34 West 71st Street, New York	Home during 1905-07, 62 West 71st Street, New York
Before moving to its current permanent home in 1921, Vedanta Society was in rented apartments in many different parts of Manhattan. Vedantists and followers of the Ramakrishna Movement may find the information below interesting. Homes of the Vedanta Society of New York (As accurately as can be traced)

Year	Address	Source	Resident Swami
1895	54 West 33 St	Marie Louise Burke, Swami Vivekananda in the West: New Discoveries, Vol III: p. 574	Swami Vivekananda
1895/96	228 West 39 Street	Ibid., III: p. 578	Swami Vivekananda
1896	509 Fifth Ave/42 St	Ibid., IV: p. 345	Swami Saradananda
1897	117 Lexington Ave	Swami Abhedananda, Amar Jivankatha, p. 138	Swami Abhedananda
1897	170 Lexington Ave	Complete Works of Swami Abhedananda, Vol X: p. 15	Swami Abhedananda
1899	146 East 55 Street	Sister Shivani, An Apostle of Monism, p. 290	Swami Abhedananda
1900	102 East 58 Street	Marie Louise Burke, Swami Vivekananda in the West: New Discoveries, Vol V: p. 145, Vol VI: pp. 266, 307	Swami Abhedananda
1905	62 West 71 Street See photo above	Vedanta Monthly Bulletin, (Apr. 1905) I:cover	Swami Abhedananda
1907	135 West 80 Street	Vedanta Monthly Bulletin, (Apr. 1907) III: pp. 14, 61 (Mar. 1908) III: pp. 12, 207	Swami Abhedananda
1915	236 Central Park West	Vedanta Quarterly, Oct 1915, p. 236, Message of the East	Swami Bodhananda
1921 --	34 West 71 Street Current home -- see photo above	Prabuddha Bharata, Awakened India (July 1922), p. 280	Swami Bodhananda Swami Pavitrananda Swami Tathagatananda

Source: Swami Tathagatananda, The Vedanta Society of New York, A Brief Survey, published by The Vedanta Society of New York, 2000, p. 279.