Fourth Avenue Line

Fourth Avenue Line refers to the following transit lines:

  • BMT Fourth Avenue Line (rapid transit)
  • Fourth Avenue Line (Manhattan surface) (bus, formerly streetcar)

Famous quotes containing the words fourth, avenue and/or line:

    “Newsmen believe that news is a tacitly acknowledged fourth branch of the federal system. This is why most news about government sounds as if it were federally mandated—serious, bulky and blandly worthwhile, like a high-fiber diet set in type.”
    —P.J. (Patrick Jake)

    “Along the avenue of cypresses,
    All in their scarlet cloaks and surplices
    Of linen, go the chanting choristers,
    The priests in gold and black, the villagers. . . .”
    —D.H. (David Herbert)

    “Any walk through a park that runs between a double line of mangy trees and passes brazenly by the ladies’ toilet is invariably known as “Lover’s Lane.””
    —F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)