Mr. Green, a native New Yorker from the Bronx who made a name in showbusiness starting as a scrappy downtown actor-songwriter in a 1930s sketch-comedy group called The Revuers, which included Comden and Judy Holliday, was 87 years old. (An earlier version of this obituary stated he was 86, based on three sources that indicated his birthday as Dec. 2, 1915; daughter Amanda Green later said he was born in 1914). He and Comden continued acting but honed their writing skills to create musical comedies over the next six decades that were light, breezy love letters to their native city. They gathered Tony Awards and international attention along the way.