Thanks to Forgotten New York for alerting me to this terrific post about Carroll Street. Here's an excerpt:
When the topic about Brooklyn's
longest streets comes up (and admittedly, that's once in a blue moon)
Flatbush, Atlantic, Bedford Avenues and Fulton Street come up most
often. But there are a group of streets that run from the waterfront at
Buttermilk Channel all the way east to Brownsville, running gthrough
Cobble Hill, Boerum Hill, Park Slope, Lefferts Gardens, and Crown
Heights: Union, President and Carroll. The latter is named for Charles Carroll
of Maryland, the only Roman Catholic to sign the Declaration of
Independence, and Carroll's presence here in the atlas is quite
deliberate. A regiment of 400 Maryland troops, under Lord Stirling, assisted American patriots in a strategic retreat from British forces who vastly outnumbered them in the Battle of Brooklyn.
longest streets comes up (and admittedly, that's once in a blue moon)
Flatbush, Atlantic, Bedford Avenues and Fulton Street come up most
often. But there are a group of streets that run from the waterfront at
Buttermilk Channel all the way east to Brownsville, running gthrough
Cobble Hill, Boerum Hill, Park Slope, Lefferts Gardens, and Crown
Heights: Union, President and Carroll. The latter is named for Charles Carroll
of Maryland, the only Roman Catholic to sign the Declaration of
Independence, and Carroll's presence here in the atlas is quite
deliberate. A regiment of 400 Maryland troops, under Lord Stirling, assisted American patriots in a strategic retreat from British forces who vastly outnumbered them in the Battle of Brooklyn.