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North Shore Towers and Country Club:
The ‘best deal’ in town for golf,
tennis and luxury living
There may be other options for golf
and tennis memberships in the
Queens and Long Island area, but
none offer the many amenities that
North Shore Towers and Country
Club provides to its members at a
reasonable price.
“It’s the best deal in town,” says
Mary Anne Langone, country
club manager. North Shore Towers
and Country Club is located right
off the Grand Central Parkway,
in Floral Park, and “offers luxury
living with the added surprise of a
beautiful 18-hole golf course, which
is challenging enough for the low
handicapper but still playable for
the average golfer, and five Har-Tru
tennis courts,” she says.
In addition to the golf and tennis,
sponsored members also get access
to year-round indoor/outdoor
pools, a fitness center, card rooms
and restaurants.
Other country clubs offering
golf and tennis typically hit their
members with hidden assessment
and social minimum fees, but not
North Shore Towers and Country
Club, says Langone, who has
worked there for more than 30
years and served as manager for
about the past 16 years.
There are close to 300 golfers and
50 tennis members, and nearly
100 of them are non-residents,
who must be sponsored by a
North Shore Towers resident to be
approved, she says.
As general manager for the past 16
years, Glen Kotowski, employed
by the Charles H. Greenthal
Management Corp., oversees every
aspect of the daily operation of the
North Shore Towers community.
“We’re right on the border of Nassau
and Queens, and they call us Long
Island’s best-kept secret because when
people come into the community, they
can’t believe” all the amenities that are
offered, says Linda Rappaport, an onsite
broker at North Shore Towers and
Country Club.
Other amenities at North Shore
Towers include express buses
to Manhattan, a movie theater,
a beauty salon, a drug store, a
supermarket and a laundromat
even though there are washers and
dryers in the apartments, she notes.
Studio apartments start at a “a very
affordable” price of about $200,000,
while penthouses sell for $1 million
and up, she says.
Rappaport has been living at North
Shore Towers for 30 years and has
an adult son who lives there with
his wife and 2-year-old child (with
another baby on the way), she
says, adding that her mother and
mother-in-law live there as well.
“Everybody loves it for different
reasons,” she says. “I love it for the
convenience and all the shopping
and the gym. The baby loves it for
the indoor pool. My mother-inlaw
loves it. She likes to play cards
and there’s several card rooms and
bridge rooms. And my mother
loves it for the fact that they offer
over 60 fitness classes weekly in the
gym.”
“It’s a melting pot of people that
come here and lend their talents
to make this a wonderful place
to live,” she says, pointing as an
example to Maria Termini-Miller,
a former board member who’s been
living there 20 years and helped
design the North Shore Towers
website.
Warren Glenn, meanwhile, is a
new board member who’s been a
resident for about two years and
chairs the House and Grounds
committee. Glenn states one of the
goals on his committee’s agenda
is “to help create an active, multigenerational
community living in a
country club setting.”
He goes on to describe North Shore
Towers as an “all-inclusive gated
community” offering “luxurious
living” with “beautiful” apartments
and “terrific” amenities and
services.
Mario Carmiciano, the board
president and chairman of the
Towers Country Club Committee,
is looking forward to another
successful country club season, he
says.
North Shore Towers and Country
Club is presently offering a firstyear,
promotional rate of $3,995 for
golf membership, plus applicable
fees. Junior golf memberships
are also available. For details and
to book a tour, call Bob Guido
at 718-279-1848 ext. 5. North
Shore Towers and Country
Club is also offering a first-year,
promotional rate of $1,750 for
tennis membership, plus applicable
fees. For details and to book a
tour, call Mary Anne Langone at
718-428-5030 ext. 0. Remember,
these memberships include indoor/
outdoor pools, a fitness center and
so much more.