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BPL · Bay Ridge · South Brooklyn · est. 1916

Bay Ridge

What is Bay Ridge reading? These rankings come from public BPL catalog availability signals at this branch alone. How we measure popularity →

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
72

How Bay Ridge compares

Most similar reading taste

Crown Heights

46% normalized overlap on adult demand · 52 shared of 83

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Most different reading taste

Bushwick

7% normalized overlap on adult demand · 6 shared of 77

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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
    The women

    Kristin Hannah

    0/6 available · all out · +18 vs panel avg
  2. 2
    Yesteryear

    Caro Claire Burke

    0/7 available · all out · +2 vs panel avg
  3. 3
    Strangers : a memoir of marriage

    Belle Burden

    0/6 available · all out · +2 vs panel avg
  4. 4
    The correspondent

    Virginia Evans

    0/6 available · all out · +2 vs panel avg
  5. 5
    Parable of the sower

    Octavia E Butler

    0/4 available · all out · +23 vs panel avg
  1. 6
    Heart the lover

    Lily King

    0/5 available · all out · +1 vs panel avg
  2. 7
    Fourth wing

    Rebecca Yarros

    0/3 available · all out · +24 vs panel avg
  3. 8
    Heartwood

    Amity Gaige

    0/2 available · all out · +32 vs panel avg
  4. 9
    My friends

    Fredrik Backman

    0/4 available · all out · +6 vs panel avg
  5. 10
    I who have never known men

    Jacqueline Harpman

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

Unusually squeezed here

  • Well endowed : the secrets to strategic spending, building a financial foundation for you and your family, and creating lasting generational wealth

    Vivian Tu · +41 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 · +32 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 · +32 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 · +27 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.

  • Fourth wing

    Rebecca Yarros · +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.

  • Art work : on the creative life

    Sally Mann · +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.

  • Parable of the sower

    Octavia E Butler · +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.

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