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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
64

How Bay Ridge compares

Most similar reading taste

Greenpoint

50% weighted overlap on adult demand pressure · 44 shared of 84

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Most different reading taste

Central Library

10% weighted overlap on adult demand pressure · 10 shared of 99

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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
    Yesteryear

    Caro Claire Burke

    0/7 available · all out · +2 vs panel avg
  2. 2
    Strangers : a memoir of marriage

    Belle Burden

    0/6 available · all out · +2 vs panel avg
  3. 3
    Crying in H Mart : a memoir

    Michelle Zauner

    0/4 available · all out · +15 vs panel avg
  4. 4
    The correspondent

    Virginia Evans

    0/5 available · all out · +1 vs panel avg
  5. 5
    Heart the lover

    Lily King

    0/5 available · all out · −1 vs panel avg
  1. 6
    My friends

    Fredrik Backman

    0/4 available · all out · +6 vs panel avg
  2. 7
    Famesick : a memoir

    Lena Dunham

    0/4 available · all out · ~ panel avg
  3. 8
    Martyr!

    Kaveh Akbar

    0/4 available · all out · +3 vs panel avg
  4. 9
    Parable of the sower

    Octavia E Butler

    0/4 available · all out · +19 vs panel avg
  5. 10
    The loneliness of Sonia and Sunny

    Kiran Desai

    0/4 available · all out · +6 vs panel avg

Unusually squeezed here

  • Inheritance

    Nora Roberts · +40 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.

  • Disability intimacy : essays on love, care, and desire

    +29 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 · +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.

  • Heartwood

    Amity Gaige · +26 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.

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

    Christopher Kendris · +26 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.

  • Nobody's girl : a memoir of surviving abuse and fighting for justice

    Virginia Roberts Giuffre · +24 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.

  • Rejection : fiction

    Tony Tulathimutte · +20 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.

  • Parable of the sower

    Octavia E Butler · +19 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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