Astoria Line

Astoria Line refers to the following transit lines:

  • BMT Astoria Line (rapid transit)
  • Astoria Line (Queens surface) (Q103 bus, formerly streetcar)
  • Astoria Line (Manhattan) (former streetcar to the Astoria Ferry at East 92nd Street)

Famous quotes containing the word line:

    “Their bodies are buried in peace; but their name liveth for evermore.”
    —Apocrypha. Ecclesiasticus, 44:14.

    The line “their name liveth for evermore” was chosen by Rudyard Kipling on behalf of the Imperial War Graves Commission as an epitaph to be used in Commonwealth War Cemeteries. Kipling had himself lost a son in the fighting.