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The North Shore Towers and Country Club is a three-building residential cooperative located in the Floral Park neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens, near the city's border with Nassau County.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=NYC Luxury Apartments I Long Island Luxury Apartments I Queens Luxury Apartments )〕 The complex is located next to the Long Island Jewish Medical Center. The three constituent residential buildings—Amherst, Beaumont, and Coleridge Towers〔—which sit on a property, are some of the tallest structures in Queens with 34 floors each.〔 〕 The towers are constructed on the highest point of land in Queens, a hill located above sea level. This hill is part of the terminal moraine of the last glacial period.〔 The North Shore Towers complex contains 1,844 apartments ranging from studios to three-bedroom apartments.〔 〕 The North Shore Towers complex has an 18-hole golf course〔 and its own power plant that produces electricity independent of local power companies. The community also has an indoor shopping concourse that connects the three residential buildings with 22 retail units, as well as fitness centers that include five swimming pools and five tennis courts. The North Shore Towers is the only gated residential community in New York with its own United States Postal Service zip code, 11005.〔 ==History== The neighborhood where the North Shore Towers were built was a rural, unnamed section of Flushing, part of a land grant to Massachusetts settlers. In 1923, the Glen Oaks Golf Club was built, created on purchased from William K. Vanderbilt II's country estate. By 1971, the golf course was replaced by the North Shore Towers.〔 〕 The North Shore Towers were constructed in Glen Oaks because of Queens's lax zoning rules, which are less restrictive than those in Nassau and Suffolk Counties in Long Island.〔 〕 Some Glen Oaks residents, mostly single-home dwellers, protested the construction of the North Shore Towers because they were afraid it would dominate the horizon.〔 〕 However, it was a highly anticipated "big Queens project" for most New Yorkers.〔 〕 The North Shore Towers were originally built as rentals, but in 1985 a filing with the New York State Attorney General's office sought to convert the complex into cooperative apartments. At the time, this was touted as the most expensive conversion in New York City’s history.〔 〕 In 1987, all but 150 units of the North Shore Towers complex were successfully converted to a co-op under a noneviction plan.〔 〕〔 〕 The buildings are considered fireproof by the New York City Fire Department because partitions between individual units are designed to stop the spread of flames, also known as compartmentalization. This is evidenced by a 2004 fire caused by a cigarette, where no one was seriously injured because the fire was self-contained.〔 〕 In 2000, a North Shore Towers resident noticed a zip code error when making an online purchase. After further investigation in 2001, it was determined that the North Shore Towers was one of four zip codes that were mistakenly charged a Nassau County sales tax of 8.5% instead of the New York City sales tax of 8.25% because the zip codes cross the city line. Residents argued that New York City should receive their tax dollars and not Nassau County. This error was corrected by late 2001.〔 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「North Shore Towers」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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