66 LONGISLANDPRESS.COM • JUNE 2019
North Shore Towers and Country Club:
Still the best deal in town for tennis, golf and more
When it comes to tennis, golf, and luxury
living, North Shore Towers and Country Club
has long been offering what Mary Anne
Langone, country club general manager,
calls “the best deal in town.”
But a recent addition has made this deal
even better. New for the 2019 season, free
tennis is being offered for the first time
for all country club members during nonprimetime
hours, Langone says.
“We’ve had a terrific response” to the offer,
says Jerry Mantell, who has been living at
North Shore Towers for about two years and
is a member of its Tennis Association board.
About 120 people turned out to attend
the recent tennis night, where the board
introduced Alex Morris, the country club’s
new Head Tennis Professional, Mantell says.
The event kicked off the start of the tennis
season, which runs from April to November.
Anybody can use the tennis courts for
free if there’s one open, but between the
preferred hours of 8 a.m. and 11 a.m.,
members of the Tennis Association who
pay $85 a season have first priority on the
courts.
“It’s a fun place to be,” Mantell says, noting
the tennis program is also “a very social
thing because we develop friendships and
companionships with so many different
people we meet on the tennis courts.”
Those who don’t live at North Shore
Towers are welcome to play tennis at
the club, but they need to become club
members at the discounted
annual promotional fee of
$1,695, down from $2,000,
he says. For that price, they
too get access to all the
club’s amenities, including
its gym, two swimming
pools (one indoor and
outdoor), card rooms, and
many other social activities.
Also new for the 2019
summer season is a Junior
Tennis Summer Camp
that’s open to kids ages 6
to 18 for $60 a day per child, with a discount
offered for siblings. Those who sign up
are welcome to do so for any amount of
time they want: one day, one week, or two
months. Plus, there’s a discount rate for
those who sign up for two weeks or more.
The Junior Tennis Summer Camp is being
run by Morris, the club’s new head pro, from
noon to 3 p.m. Monday through Friday
from July 1 to August 23. Preregistration is
recommended, but anybody interested in
signing up is welcome to do so at any time,
although it should be done at least a day
before a registrant starts in the program,
he says.
Prior to joining North Shore, Morris was
an assistant pro at the Woodmere Club and
he’s also a teaching tennis pro at Christopher
Morley Park in Roslyn.
“There was tremendous room for growth
here,” Morris says. “They have a great facility.”
Other new additions to the North Shore
tennis program this season include Open
Play, Mondays and Thursdays from 6:30 p.m.
to 8:30 p.m.
The country club offers five Har-Tru green
clay courts, several of them lighted for
nighttime play. The club’s
tennis pro and staff offer
private and group lessons
for every level of play, and
also arrange tournaments,
men’s, women’s, and
mixed league play, clinics,
team tennis, and special
events.
The country club’s golf
program, meanwhile,
is “going really well,”
Langone says.
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,” Langone says.
“We’re right on the border of Nassau and
Queens, and they call us Long Island’s bestkept
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
apartment prices start at about $200,000,
while penthouses sell for $1 million and
up, she says.
For more details about the Junior
Tennis Summer Camp, call Alex Morris at
718-428-5030 ext. 1112 or email him at
alexanderbmorris93@gmail.com.
For more tennis details, email Jerry Mantell
at tennisjerry@yahoo.com.
Jerry Mantell, North Shore Towers Tennis
Association board member, and Alex Morris,
the country club’s new Head Tennis Professional
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