The history of Triboro Coach Corporation ultimately goes back to a bus operation begun by by Salvatore Fornatora in 1919. He received a permit from the New York City Department of Plant & Structures to operate a bus line from the 103rd St. terminal in Corona in the New York City borough of Queens (to which the elevateds had just been extended) to a terminal in central Flushing. When the elevated was itself extended to Flushing, Fornatora relocated his operations to Astoria. By the late 1920s his company, then known as the Woodside-Astoria Transportation Company, was operating a number of routes in the Queens neighborhoods of Astoria, Woodside, and Maspeth. On April 10, 1931 the company was reorganized under the name Triboro Coach Corporation. It took over bus routes operated by a number of