Tag: North Shore Towers

2014 March On Board By Anne McCauley

The Building: Glen Oaks Village is a self-managed cooperative residential housing development located in northeastern Queens. It was built in 1947 shortly after WWII to help fill the void of affordable housing for returning GI's. Originall…

2013 August On Board By Cooperator Staff

Bob Ricken: North Shore Towers, Queens The Building : North Shore Towers & Country Club, a cooperative spread out over 110 acres, commands the highest point in Queens with views of the Empire State Building, Long Island Sound and…

2010 April The (Really) Big Apple By Greg Olear

 If you lived in New York in the summer of 2003, chances are you know exactly  what you were doing on Thursday, August 14th, at 4:15 in the afternoon. That’s when the ripple effects of the failure of an Ohio power plant caused most of  the…

2005 Jan The Long and Short of It By David Garry

Every co-op or condo community in New York City has its own personality and character, from the tiny 20-unit brownstone co-ops of the West Village to the towering modern high-rises of the Upper East Side. The wide range of sizes, demograph…