Green Bus Lines was a bus

Bus

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 company in New York City

New York City

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, United States

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, managed most recently by Jerome Cooper (son of the late founder/owner William Cooper 1895-1985), operating local service in Queens

Queens

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 and express service to Manhattan

Manhattan

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 until January 9, 2006, when the MTA Bus Company

MTA Bus Company

MTA Bus Company is a service of MTA Regional Bus Operations used on routes previously controlled by the New York City Department of Transportation , and operated by private operators that provided service under contract to the NYCDOT...

 took over its routes.

The company was incorporated on April 3, 1925 to provide local service in several boroughs. It acquired several Manhattan routes (including the current M22, M50, M79, M86, and M96) in 1933, but these were transferred to the Comprehensive Omnibus Corporation in 1935 and New York City Omnibus Corporation

New York City Omnibus Corporation

The New York City Omnibus Corporation was formed in 1926. It ran new bus services that replaced the New York Railways Corporation streetcars when they were dismantled in 1935/36. It purchased the Fifth Avenue Coach Company from The Omnibus Corporation in 1954 and renamed itself the 'Fifth Avenue...

 in 1936, and Green obtained new franchise

Government-granted monopoly

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s in southeast Queens. Green also acquired the Manhattan and Queens Bus Corporation, which had operated the ex-Manhattan and Queens Traction Company Queens Boulevard Line into Manhattan since 1937, in 1943.

Green stockholders acquired several other companies that continued to operate independently: Command Bus Company

Command Bus Company

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, Triboro Coach Corporation, and Jamaica Buses

Jamaica Buses

Jamaica Buses was a bus company in New York City, United States, operating local service in Queens and express service to Manhattan until January 30, 2006, when the MTA Bus Company took over its operations....

.

The QM23 was started in the 1950s to replace Long Island Rail Road

Long Island Rail Road

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 service to the Brooklyn Manor

Brooklyn Manor (LIRR station)

Brooklyn Manor was a station on the Long Island Rail Road's Rockaway Beach branch in New York City on the south side of Jamaica Avenue at 100th Street at the border between Richmond Hill and Woodhaven, Queens. The elevated station was constructed from wood—unusual for the Rockaway Beach branch, as...

 station on the Rockaway Beach Branch

Rockaway Beach Branch

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. It was discontinued in 2010. Four more express routes began operation in the 1970s.

Just prior to MTA Bus takeover, Green Bus lines operated the following routes, which mostly continued to be based in Far Rockaway Bus Depot and John F. Kennedy Bus Depot:
Queens local

• Q6 Sutphin Boulevard
• Q7 Rockaway Boulevard and Pitkin Av
• Q8 101st Avenue
• Q9 Lincoln Street
• Q10 Lefferts Boulevard and Rockaway Blvd Local/Limited to JFK Airport's Central Terminal Areas
• Q11 Woodhaven Boulevard
• Q21 Cross Bay Boulevard
• Q22 Rockaway Beach Boulevard and Beach Channel Drive
• Q35 Newport Avenue and Flatbush Avenue (Brooklyn)
• Q37 111th Street
• Q40 142nd Street
• Q41 127th Street
• Q60 Queens Boulevard
• Q89 (Formerly Q9A) Linden Boulevard and Lincoln Street (discontinued under MTA Bus)

Express

• QM15 Midtown Manhattan - Lindenwood
• QM16 Midtown Manhattan - Rockaway Park
• QM17 Midtown Manhattan - Far Rockaway
• QM18 Midtown Manhattan - South Ozone Park, via Lefferts
• QM23 Midtown Manhattan - Brooklyn Manor (discontinued under MTA Bus)