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BPL · Bed-Stuy · Central Brooklyn · est. 1905

Bedford

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About this branch

Carnegie branch on Franklin Avenue. Opened in 1905 in what was then the Eastern District; long a hub for the surrounding Bed-Stuy community.

Opened
1905
Neighborhood
Bed-Stuy
Region
Central Brooklyn
Tracked here
54

How Bedford compares

Most similar reading taste

Flatbush

37% normalized overlap on adult demand · 37 shared of 84

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Most different reading taste

Central Library

4% normalized overlap on adult demand · 6 shared of 87

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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

    0/5 available · all out · ~ panel avg
  2. 2
    The correspondent

    Virginia Evans

    0/5 available · all out · ~ panel avg
  3. 3
    Yesteryear

    Caro Claire Burke

    0/4 available · all out · −5 vs panel avg
  4. 4
    Whistler

    Ann Patchett

    0/3 available · all out · −2 vs panel avg
  5. 5
    The loneliness of Sonia and Sunny

    Kiran Desai

    0/3 available · all out · +3 vs panel avg
  1. 6
    Things in nature merely grow

    Yiyun Li

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

    Lena Dunham

    0/2 available · all out · −6 vs panel avg
  3. 8
    The book of delights

    Ross Gay

    0/2 available · all out · +4 vs panel avg
  4. 9
    The women

    Kristin Hannah

    0/2 available · all out · +1 vs panel avg
  5. 10
    I who have never known men

    Jacqueline Harpman

    0/2 available · all out · −2 vs panel avg

Unusually squeezed here

  • Food person

    Adam D Roberts · +42 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 backyard bird chronicles

    Amy Tan · +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.

  • There's always this year : on basketball and ascension

    Hanif Abdurraqib · +36 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.

  • Linger : salads, sweets and stories to savor

    Hetty McKinnon · +30 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.

  • Killers of the Flower Moon : the Osage murders and the birth of the FBI

    David Grann · +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.

  • Perfection

    Vincenzo Latronico · +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.

  • All fours

    Miranda July · +18 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.

  • This is not about us : fiction

    Allegra Goodman · +17 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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