Union Avenue Line (Brooklyn)
The Union Avenue Line was a public transit line in Brooklyn, New York City, United States, running mostly along Myrtle Avenue, Knickerbocker Avenue, Flushing Avenue, Throop Avenue, and Union Avenue from Ridgewood, Queens northwest to Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
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—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
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“What, will the line stretch out to the crack of doom?”
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