Sunday, October 25 Open Houses
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23 Bradford Road, Scarsdale
Public Open House: Sunday, October 25, 2015 1:00pm – 3:00pm
Exceptional and enhanced Scarsdale property offers stunning seclusion on .66 acres with the most gorgeous heated pool and overflowing hot tub nestled amid professional landscaped property accented with dramatic twilight lighting. Smartly updated and beautifully maintained home offers 5500+ square feet and over 1100 square feet of mahogany decking with blue stone patios encircling the pool. Sun-drenched throughout, this home enjoys oversized rooms including two family rooms, two recreation rooms and open expansive kitchen with sliders to Mahogany deck, exterior stainless steel kitchen, interior/exterior wet-bar opening to the 
gorgeous Shoreline pool and backyard gardens. All this blends seamlessly with the traditional character and quality of this classic stone and clapboard home located an easy walk to elementary school with bus to middle and high school. An exceptional opportunity for a private oasis in the heart of Scarsdale. For more information, click here.
List Price: $3,150,000
27 Old Lyme Road, Scarsdale
Public Open House: Sunday, October 25, 2015 12:00pm – 2:00pm
Sparkling Center Hall Colonial set on a lush .66 acre of level property with potential room for a pool. This home boasts a gracious entry hall leading to a large living room with decorative fireplace and wet bar, family room with wood burning fireplace and doors to slate patio, updated eat-in kitchen with granite counters, stainless steel appliances and views to private patio and park-like back yard, formal dining room, powder room, guest bedroom, updated bath and large paneled office/playroom or perfect in-law suite with separate entrance complete the first level. The second level has a master bedroom with updated bath, three additional bedrooms a
nd updated hall bath. New furnace and A/C condensers. Finished playroom in basement (290 sf. included in total sf.) Walk to elementary school and close to worship. A great home for entertaining. For more information, click here.
List Price: $1,395,000
26 Seely Place, Scarsdale PO, Edgemont
Public Open House: Sunday, October 25, 2015 2:00pm – 4:00pm
Sanctuary in Old Edgemont. Nestled at the end of a private drive, offering supreme privacy on flat park-like .65 acres in the heart of desirable Old Edgemont, a few comfortable steps to schools, train and village, this completely renovated (2001) pristine Colonial Farmhouse offers 3500+ square feet of sunbathed living. This private retreat offers the most desirable layout with spacious eat-in kitchen with large centered baking island, plenty of custom cherry cabinets adjoining an equally spacious family room with stylish built-ins, access to large Mahogany deck and yard plus the ultimate convenience of an adjoining laundry/mud room. The first level is complete with a beautifully oversized dining room, living room with fireplace and study featuring an attractive stone fireplace. Second floor boasts a sky-lit master with spa-like 
bath, three bedrooms + 2 full baths. An extraordinary rare find, private, park-like living in exclusive Old Edgemont. Extra special hide-away in the middle of it all. For more information, click here.
List Price: $1,694,900
Restored Version of My Fair Lady Debuts in Scarsdale
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The 1964 version of My Fair Lady with Rex Harrison and Audrey Hepburn has been restored and will be released in theatres next month. The movie won eight Academy Awards in its day and will be aired in 600 theatres including the Alamo Ale House in Yonkers this year.
On Tuesday night October 13, Value Electronics on Popham Road in Scarsdale debuted the movie on all their screens, including their home digital theatre in the back of the store. You could see Hepburn singing "Wouldn't it be Lovely" on six screens and she looked more beautiful than ever in 4K.
On hand was Robert Harris a Scarsdale native who restored the film in 1994 and again this year. He told me that he grew up on Carthage Road and attended Greenacres Elementary School, before the Heathcote Elementary School was built!
See more about the 50th anniversary restoration of My Fair Lady here: Myfairlady50.com.
Babes in the Berks
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When we think of a girls' weekend, often a spa getaway comes to mind. In fact, with a big birthday around the corner and a plan for my first-ever girls' weekend, a spa was what came to mind because hey, that's what girls do, right?
But as I looked at spas, it just didn't seem like the weekend I always wanted. The cost would be high, (I aimed to keep it low,) and we'd be spending a lot of our time "together" in different treatment rooms having different experiences. My friends were from different points in my life and no one had met before so I wanted to make the weekend as comfortable as possible for all.
The Berkshires quickly seemed like the perfect option since friends were coming from both Boston and New York. We decided to rent a house in order to have the most privacy and space for drinking goblets (and goblets) of wine. Two great sites for house rentals are VRBO and HomeAway. We found a beautiful, fully renovated house in the heart of Great Barrington that slept seven of us comfortably for $60 per night per person.
Friday night we ordered in from the best pizza joint in town, Baba Louie's. Each pizza is topped with mounds of gourmet toppings and is worth the calorie intake (Coconut, shrimp, pineapple, and Canadian bacon on a pizza sounds weird but tastes great.)
Saturday morning we awoke to crisp mountain air and the most perfect blue skies. After downing donuts from the delectable Home Sweet Home Doughnut Shoppe we headed to what was hands-down the best part of the entire weekend, Catamount Trees. Catamount Trees is an aerial zip line and ropes course high up in the mountains that was a challenge, even for the experienced rock climber and the marathoner in our group. Catamount is on the border of New York and Massachusetts, less than a two-hour drive from Scarsdale.
Adrenaline is the best-known antidote to a stomach stuffed with donuts. Each person was fitted for a harness and we were given a brief safety talk and a few instructions on how to work the gear that was now attached to us. We walked up the mountain to the base of the aerial ropes course and were amazed at the intricacy, organization, and (admittedly) perceived difficulty of it. The course is unguided, so you must attach, reattach, and detach yourself to the lines along the way including the zip lines.
Everyone must start on the easier courses (yellow then green) and as you move to more difficult ones (blues and black diamonds), increased strength, agility, and balance are needed...as is more courage! There are 12 courses and over 170 elements in total. We all cheered one another on and had to help each other figure out the optimal way to get across, up, down, or through the various elements since there are numerous ways to tackle each. No element is the same. There are bridges, ladders, obstacles, and zip lines and just when you think you've done it all, another element pops up that offers a completely new challenge. We moved from platform to platform and sailed high through the tree tops on zip lines together which made this really special to do as a group.
After free falling (holy crap!) and then auto-belaying 
down the last element of our last course (difficulty level blue), we regrouped and headed to Tripadvisor's number on pick for food in Great Barrington. The Bistro Box is a roadside stand that has picnic tables and great music coming out of funky speakers. Their garlic and herbed French fries and grated Parmesan and truffle oil French fries are to die for (see picture), and this is coming from a person who (no joke) has never liked fries, even as a kid. The chefs trained at the Culinary Institute of America and are the real deal. They serve the freshest food imaginable out of their "box." It was so good we returned for lunch the next day. Why mess with perfection?
With a sense of accomplishment, we headed back to the house and took turns taking the owners' kayaks for a sunset paddle around Lake Mansfield while the rest of us reminisced about the day and drank good wine. We ordered in again and played "fact or fiction," a game in which we each had to give the others a chance to guess which absurd or outrageous fact was true versus the two that weren't. We had many laughs and learned a lot about each other.
Sunday morning we had local bagels comparable to New York's finest and went apple picking at Windy Hill Farm. The apple orchard is well laid out with signs that show what's ripe for the picking. The farm is beautiful, facing Monument Mountain. Unlike orchards in the Hudson Valley, there were no crowds. The apple varieties were pleasing and there were lots of ripe apples easy to pick. There weren't many rotting apples under the trees so there were very few bees and flies.
Finally, we headed out on one last adventure to Bash Bish Falls, a pristine waterfall in the Taconic Mountains on the Massachusetts/New York border. A short but steep hike led us to an area that you could boulder your way around to get closer to the falls. It also got us a little too close to a rather long copperhead snake, one of the few poisonous snakes in the region.
The Berkshires is packed with many other options for girls' weekend fun. There is the Norman Rockwell Museum, the Mass MOCA art museum, hiking at Monument Mountain and Mt. Greylock, biking, lots of restaurant options, the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, and much else. Oh, and of course, if you'd rather be fully pampered, there's always the spa option at Canyon Ranch.
Pollan Family to Share Kitchen Wisdom at Scarsdale Library
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The community is invited to step into the "kitchen" with the authors of "The Pollan Family Table: The Best Recipes and Kitchen Wisdom for Delicious, Healthy Family Meals" on Thursday, October 22 at 7:30 p.m. The Scarsdale Public Library will host matriarch Corky Pollan and daughters Lori, Dana, and Tracy for an evening of stories, tips, and a cooking demonstration.
Known best for their individual accomplishments as writers, actors, and health and fitness experts, the Pollan Family came together to publish a cookbook that focuses on their belief that home cooked meals can and should be a central part of family life – even while balancing busy schedules and picky eaters.
The cookbook has drawn the attention of celebrity chefs, with accolades from Mario Batali and Ina Garten, as well as praise from Michael J. Fox, Tracy's husband. The Pollans' cookbook seeks to simplify the process for those who want to make delicious food that doesn't require extensive preparation. The book offers recipes using fresh and simple ingredients as well as tips for making time in the kitchen more efficient.
"We have received many requests from library patrons for a Ladies' Night Out," said Library Director Elizabeth Bermel. "We are delighted to host this distinguished family for our first event designed specifically for the women of Scarsdale. The format of the program will resemble a cooking talk show. After a brief discussion, the Pollans will prepare some of their favorite dishes for sampling, with ample time for questions from the audience."
Copies of "The Pollan Family Table" will be available for purchase and a book signing will follow the program.
The program is free and open to the public, but registration is required as space is limited. To register, visit www.scarsdalelibrary.org or call the Reference Desk at 914-722-1302.
Scarsdale Concours Scheduled for Sunday October 4th
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The 12th Anniversary Scarsdale Concours d'Elegance car show is scheduled for Sunday, October 4, 2015 in Scarsdale Village. If the weather fails to cooperate, the raindate is Sunday October 11.
The Scarsdale Concours d'Elegance is the second longest running Concours in the Eastern United States. This year's show follows the success of last years event with over 125 cars participating (plus 25 new vehicles from our various sponsors, including BMW, Miller Motorcars, McLaren Greenwich, Jaguar/Land Rover of Larchmont, Pepe Porsche, Mercedes Benz, Cadillac and Infiniti. Last year over $24,000 was raised for charity for Scarsdale and Edgemont Family Counseling Service, The Warrior and Family Assistance Fund and the Scarsdale Foundation.
Once again our beneficiaries are very worthy local charities, and will include Scarsdale and Edgemont Family Counseling Service and The Warrior and Family Assistance Fund.
This year's panel of judges will be comprised of distinguished members of the automotive press from various media outlets, including Top Gear, Consumer Reports and Car & Driver.
Public viewing will begin at 10:30 a.m. and will feature over 130 American and European automobiles as well as displays of new vehicles from various manufacturers and dealerships. Viewing ends at 4:00 p.m. with Final Judging and an Awards Ceremony, followed by a champagne toast to the winners.
For more information visit www.scarsdaleconcours.org.
