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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
28

How Bedford compares

Most similar reading taste

Brooklyn Heights

44% weighted overlap on adult demand pressure · 21 shared of 43

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Most different reading taste

Central Library

4% weighted overlap on adult demand pressure · 3 shared of 48

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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
    Atmosphere : a love story

    Taylor Jenkins Reid

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

    Virginia Evans

    0/5 available · all out · ~ panel avg
  3. 3
    Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow

    Gabrielle Zevin

    0/3 available · all out · +21 vs panel avg
  4. 4
    Strangers : a memoir of marriage

    Belle Burden

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

    Kiran Desai

    0/3 available · all out · +2 vs panel avg
  1. 6
    Heart the lover

    Lily King

    0/3 available · all out · −5 vs panel avg
  2. 7
    The intruder

    Freida McFadden

    0/2 available · all out · +3 vs panel avg
  3. 8
    Parable of the sower

    Octavia E Butler

    0/2 available · all out · −1 vs panel avg
  4. 9
    I who have never known men

    Jacqueline Harpman

    0/2 available · all out · −1 vs panel avg
  5. 10
    Things in nature merely grow

    Yiyun Li

    0/2 available · all out · +3 vs panel avg

Unusually squeezed here

  • The book of delights

    Ross Gay · +21 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.

  • Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow

    Gabrielle Zevin · +21 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 subtle art of not giving a fuck : a counterintuitive approach to living a good life

    Mark Manson · +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.

  • All fours

    Miranda July · +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.

  • Crying in H Mart : a memoir

    Michelle Zauner · +10 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 · +9 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.

  • Wuthering Heights

    Emily Brontë · +9 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.

  • Strangers : a memoir of marriage

    Belle Burden · +4 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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