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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

40% weighted overlap on adult demand pressure · 38 shared of 83

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Most different reading taste

Central Library

3% weighted overlap on adult demand pressure · 9 shared of 91

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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

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

    Virginia Evans

    0/5 available · all out · ~ panel avg
  3. 3
    Atmosphere : a love story

    Taylor Jenkins Reid

    0/4 available · all out · +3 vs panel avg
  4. 4
    Long Island compromise

    Taffy Brodesser-Akner

    0/2 available · all out · +38 vs panel avg
  5. 5
    The loneliness of Sonia and Sunny

    Kiran Desai

    0/4 available · all out · +6 vs panel avg
  1. 6
    Strangers : a memoir of marriage

    Belle Burden

    0/4 available · all out · −3 vs panel avg
  2. 7
    Heart the lover

    Lily King

    0/3 available · all out · −5 vs panel avg
  3. 8
    Famesick : a memoir

    Lena Dunham

    0/3 available · all out · −3 vs panel avg
  4. 9
    Whistler

    Ann Patchett

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

    Yiyun Li

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

Unusually squeezed here

  • Flirting lessons

    Jasmine Guillory · +51 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 · +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.

  • Long Island compromise

    Taffy Brodesser-Akner · +38 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 · +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.

  • Persuasion

    Jane Austen · +25 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.

  • Good things : recipes and rituals to share with people you love

    Samin Nosrat · +15 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.

  • Intermezzo

    Sally Rooney · +11 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 · +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.

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