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BPL · Bay Ridge · South Brooklyn · est. 1916

Bay Ridge

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About this branch

Carnegie library on Ridge Boulevard, opened in 1916 — among the last Brooklyn Carnegie branches funded.

Opened
1916
Neighborhood
Bay Ridge
Region
South Brooklyn
Tracked here
50

How Bay Ridge compares

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Flatbush

58% weighted overlap on adult demand pressure · 37 shared of 69

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Most different reading taste

Central Library

11% weighted overlap on adult demand pressure · 9 shared of 78

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Most in-demand here

Availability-derivedAvailability-derived: public hold counts are too inconsistent across comparable titles to fold in. This ranking is based on shelf availability and movement only. Missing holds are never treated as zero.
  1. 1
    Strangers : a memoir of marriage

    Belle Burden

    0/7 available · all out · +7 vs panel avg
  2. 2
    The correspondent

    Virginia Evans

    0/6 available · all out · +2 vs panel avg
  3. 3
    Heart the lover

    Lily King

    0/5 available · all out · +1 vs panel avg
  4. 4
    Yesteryear

    Caro Claire Burke

    0/4 available · all out · −2 vs panel avg
  5. 5
    Martyr!

    Kaveh Akbar

    0/4 available · all out · +3 vs panel avg
  1. 6
    I who have never known men

    Jacqueline Harpman

    0/4 available · all out · +4 vs panel avg
  2. 7
    The intruder

    Freida McFadden

    0/4 available · all out · +13 vs panel avg
  3. 8
    Famesick : a memoir

    Lena Dunham

    0/4 available · all out · +3 vs panel avg
  4. 9
    The widow

    John Grisham

    0/3 available · all out · +4 vs panel avg
  5. 10
    Atmosphere : a love story

    Taylor Jenkins Reid

    1/7 available · −1 vs panel avg

Unusually squeezed here

  • 501 Spanish verbs : fully conjugated in all the tenses in an alphabetically arranged, easy-to-learn format

    Christopher Kendris · +28 vs panel avgOver-index: this branch's demand pressure for the title minus the average pressure across ALL tracked branches that carry the title (this branch included). Branches that don't carry the title are excluded so non-coverage doesn't artificially inflate distinctiveness. Positive = unusually in demand here.

  • Inheritance

    Nora Roberts · +28 vs panel avgOver-index: this branch's demand pressure for the title minus the average pressure across ALL tracked branches that carry the title (this branch included). Branches that don't carry the title are excluded so non-coverage doesn't artificially inflate distinctiveness. Positive = unusually in demand here.

  • Be ready when the luck happens : a memoir

    Ina Garten · +23 vs panel avgOver-index: this branch's demand pressure for the title minus the average pressure across ALL tracked branches that carry the title (this branch included). Branches that don't carry the title are excluded so non-coverage doesn't artificially inflate distinctiveness. Positive = unusually in demand here.

  • Fourth wing

    Rebecca Yarros · +14 vs panel avgOver-index: this branch's demand pressure for the title minus the average pressure across ALL tracked branches that carry the title (this branch included). Branches that don't carry the title are excluded so non-coverage doesn't artificially inflate distinctiveness. Positive = unusually in demand here.

  • The intruder

    Freida McFadden · +13 vs panel avgOver-index: this branch's demand pressure for the title minus the average pressure across ALL tracked branches that carry the title (this branch included). Branches that don't carry the title are excluded so non-coverage doesn't artificially inflate distinctiveness. Positive = unusually in demand here.

  • Trust

    Hernán Díaz · +13 vs panel avgOver-index: this branch's demand pressure for the title minus the average pressure across ALL tracked branches that carry the title (this branch included). Branches that don't carry the title are excluded so non-coverage doesn't artificially inflate distinctiveness. Positive = unusually in demand here.

  • I regret almost everything : a memoir

    Keith McNally · +12 vs panel avgOver-index: this branch's demand pressure for the title minus the average pressure across ALL tracked branches that carry the title (this branch included). Branches that don't carry the title are excluded so non-coverage doesn't artificially inflate distinctiveness. Positive = unusually in demand here.

  • Braiding sweetgrass

    Robin Wall Kimmerer · +12 vs panel avgOver-index: this branch's demand pressure for the title minus the average pressure across ALL tracked branches that carry the title (this branch included). Branches that don't carry the title are excluded so non-coverage doesn't artificially inflate distinctiveness. Positive = unusually in demand here.

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