Calle de Esperanza Sánchez Carrascosa
It recalls the Carrascosa family, who owned much of the Valdeacederas land the street was opened over.
The name comes from the ground. The street was opened over plots that had belonged to the Carrascosa family, one of the surnames with large holdings in Valdeacederas, and the street register ended up fixing that name on the map. It was a common custom in Tetuán, a district that grew plot by plot at the initiative of private owners who sold or ceded their land.
Of Esperanza Sánchez Carrascosa, the actual person on the sign, no biography survives. Her tie to the place is one of land ownership, and beyond that there are no verifiable facts.
The surrounding neighbourhood is Valdeacederas, one of the old settlements in northern Madrid, built with low houses that the century gradually replaced with blocks. Today the street mixes new buildings with plots under construction, and in 2022 it gained a small green area where it meets the calle de la Alfalfa.