North Shore (Long Island)
The North Shore of Long Island is the area along Long Island's northern coast, bordering Long Island Sound. Traditionally, the region has been the most affluent on Long Island and among the most affluent in the New York metropolitan area, which has earned it the nickname "the Gold Coast." The term is generally used only in reference to the Long Island coastline in the towns of North Hempstead, Oyster Bay, and Huntington, in Nassau and western Suffolk County.
Being a remnant of glacial moraine, the North Shore is hilly, and its beaches are more rocky than those on the flat, sandy outwash plain of the south shore. Large boulders known as glacial erratics are scattered across the area.
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