[1][2] At the time of its closure, Green Lines operated more local and limited bus routes than any other private company in the city.

[3][4] The company reorganized as GTJ Reit Inc., a real estate investment trust, shortly after MTA takeover.

Cooper originally began operating a single bus line, a portion of today's Q8 101-Jerome Avenue route, in 1922.

[10][11][12][13] Green Lines was awarded the rights to all of "Zone C" in southern Queens, which included Woodhaven, Richmond Hill, Ozone Park, Howard Beach, and the Rockaways.

[15] Green stockholders acquired two other transit companies that continued to operate independently: Triboro Coach Corporation in October 1947, and Jamaica Buses in April 1949.

[4] The QM23 was started in the 1950s to replace Long Island Rail Road service to the Brooklyn Manor station on the Rockaway Beach Branch.

[55] A satellite facility, it primarily housed buses serving the Rockaways and southern Queens, performing light maintenance work.