Carroll / Crown / Ford Streets

- August 28, 2025

No video, because I was walking with News 12. Their video can be found here.

I arrived early do I looped around a few blocks to the park, and then returned to Franklin Ave and Eastern Parkway to wait for Rob Flaks from News 12 to arrive.

Together, we walked a ways down Carroll Street while he filmed and asked me questions. He kept up with me until about Brooklyn Ave before returning to his car. I made it down to Lincoln Terrace / Arthur S. Somers Park. Normally, I wouldn't cross through the park unless I needed to get to the other side, but in this particular case, I needed to use the bathroom. I'd been out for several hours now and had had a couple of large coffees. (The map above says 1:51:40 but there was a lot of waiting in there when the app was paused.)

I returned through Crown Heights along Crown Street until Nostrand Ave where I got the IRT back to Atlantic Ave. I hadn't expected that walk to be four and a half miles.

So I started off with the piece of Union Street that I didn't walk in my previous trip and circled around to Carroll Street. I passed a community garden on Union. On the way back, I had to cross a bridge over the Franklin Avenue shuttle, which is below street level at this point. Not that there are two tracks at this point. By the time the shuttle gets to the trestle at Fulton Street, there's only a single track.

After I swung back to Eastern Parkway and met up with Rob Flaks, we came down to Carroll Street again. I took one shot while I was with him. I stopped at a Little Free Library, but I didn't record a video there. I did get one picture together although I accidentally snapped one of me when I took my phone out. It was amusing so I posted it.

After that, I was on my own until I got to the park. As a math teacher, I have to love the hexagon tiles. (In college, I said we should play a war game or a space battle with minatures on a field like this.. There was a compass on one of the tiles letting me know that I would be walking due west on my return trip. (This also meant sun on my back the entire way!)

I walked down Rochester Ave to East New York Ave and over to Ford St, which runs two avenues but not parallel to Rochester or Utica Aves. It seems to be a continuation of E 92 Street. I did walk the tiny street of E92 St, assuming it disappeared into a housing complex. According to Google Maps, it appears that the walkway I say is actually E92 Street, which picks up again near Rutland Rd, but that's a walk for another day.

After that, it was a straight shot down Crown Street.

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