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Written by Joanne Wallenstein

Category: The Goods

Published: 06 August 2014

The new building at 1 Palmer Avenue in front of Balducci's finally has a tenant and no, it's not CVS. While the first floor of the building is still empty, the second floor of the much-discussed building has been leased to an innovative exercise studio. Now open in Scarsdale is SLT, that is Strengthen, Lengthen and Tone, offering a new type of exercise class that uses the Megaformer machine to tone your whole body.

The format of the class is not easy to describe but founder Amanda Freeman explains it this way: "If cardio, strength training and Pilates had a baby... it would be SLT." The best way to understand what's going on is to view the video on their website. Click here to see SLT in action.

This progressive workout is designed to strengthen, lengthen, and tone the body quickly and safely. This workout is largely based on the holistic principles of Pilates, but also emphasizes the strength training and cardio elements not inherent to Pilates to achieve muscle definition faster than traditional Pilates and/or weight training alone...all in as little as 50 minutes.

The workout blends core stability with muscle dynamics, with resistance and counter-resistance exercises using a system of springs and pulleys in a sequence that allows for periods of zero gravity at peak muscle contraction. The method encourages maximum exertion while allowing for low risk of injury. The workout strengthens the body, tones and elongates the muscles, improves endurance, jump-starts the metabolism, burns fat, increases flexibility and postural alignment, and restores the body's natural balance.

All muscle groups, from big to small, are strengthened in a non-aggressive, non-impact manner making this workout as good for your muscles as it is for your joints. Your spine stays protected, your mind engaged, and your body pushed to its limits. Under the guidance of your certified instructor, it's one of the safest ways to strengthen your muscles while reducing stress on the joints and connective tissues.

CEO Amanda Freeman has transported this format from the West Coast to the East Coast where SLT now has two locations in Manhattan as well as sites in Bridgehampton, Roslyn, Rye Brook and Short Hills. Two additional locations in the Flatiron and Upper East Side will also open soon.

Classes are 50 minutes long and limited to ten people per session. You can sign up now for your first class at the special introductory rate of just $20. Click here to see the class schedule in Scarsdale and in Rye Brook.

There is plenty of free parking in front of the entrance of the building and in the garage underneath the building. Please use the entrance in the back of the lot (where the garage is) to enter the studio. You can use the elevator or stairs to take you up to the studio on the 2nd floor!

SLT
1 Palmer Avenue 2nd Floor
Scarsdale, NY
914-305-5880

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Written by Deborah Skolnik

Category: The Goods

Published: 19 August 2014

Chances are you love Facebook, like everyone else. But we Scarsdalians are special. Our mothers told us so! We need online hubs tailored to our particular needs. So join me in petitioning Mark Zuckerberg to create these smart spinoffs, just for the 10583 crowd:

PARKINGSPACEBOOK - Why waste 50 minutes of your lunch hour looking for a parking spot in the Village, just so you can wolf down a sandwich at Lange's in 2 minutes flat? On Parkingspacebook, people can post when they're about to back out of a parking space, so you can drive right over and snag it (ahead of that dude with the Escalade and attitude, booyah!)

FIRSTBASEBOOK - Don't feel like spending 2 hours at the Supply Field watching your kid's baseball game? Hide out at Seven Woks and log into Firstbasebook! Simply post vaguely encouraging comments every 10 minutes ("You go!" "Lookin' good!"). Later, when your child complains he didn't see you on the bleachers, tell him he just wasn't looking hard enough. Then show him the great remarks you made about the game online, to prove you were cheering his every Mariano-Rivera-like move.

DISGRACEBOOK - If you've ever been caught running a multimillion-dollar marijuana biz, or sunbathing buck naked on the roof of your car in front of Babies R Us, this social media site is for you. You can read everyone's snarky jokes about your crime, and add your own rebuttal. Try "Hey, mama needed that McMansion!" or "How else could I get an even tan?" You might score a few thumbs up. (Or middle fingers.)

DISPLACEBOOK - Did the tax reassessment raise the ludicrously low levy on your big ol' home? Are you now expected to pay nearly as much as your neighbors who live in a saltbox? Come to Displacebook to complain that you might need to move. Bonus: An audio enhancement serenades the site's visitors with the Beatles' "Yesterday," played on a diminutive violin.

CHRISTIEPLACEBOOK - Speaking of taxes, if you followed every twist of the proposed-but-defeated tax hike on this luxury apartment complex, you can relive the bawling and brawling on Christieplacebook. Note: Not recommended for children under 6, as it features adults acting like children under 5.

REPLACEBOOK - Why endure the real world when there's Replacebook? Here, Photoshop pros take pictures of Scarsdale's eyesores, then digitally swap them out for nicer structures. The unoccupied building at the Five Corners? Poof! Now it's a miniature Eiffel Tower. The Crane Road Bridge project? It's been transformed into the twee little bridge in one of Monet's water lily paintings. Magnifique!

RACEBOOK - We'd never suggest that all those folks speed-walking on Mamaroneck Avenue are trying to show each other up. But just in case, Racebook gives you a chance to post anonymous put-downs: "To the Botoxed lady in the Lululemon yoga pants--EAT MY DUST!"

RESURFACEBOOK - It's August, yet you still almost broke an axle on that pothole that's been gaping on your street since February. Thank goodness for Resurfacebook! Here, residents can post their best DIY fixes, like filling potholes with mulch, or feathers from the library geese that have mysteriously disappeared, or that petrified half-gallon of Peachwave yogurt you left in the freezer since May.

Deborah Skolnik is a Greenacres mother of two and a marketing manager at Myron Promotional Products in Maywood, NJ. Her latest essay is scheduled to appear in the October issue of Reader's Digest.

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Written by Joanne Wallenstein

Category: The Goods

Published: 30 July 2014

Here's a post from a Scarsdale mom who is leaving our fair village now that her kids have all left home. As she looks forward to the next chapter of her life beyond Raider territory, she's spared a last few brain cells for Scarsdale. Here are her parting words on what defines the Scarsdale experience:

You know you are a ScarsdALIEN if ...

• You hit the gym religiously...almost as religiously as you hit happy hour.
• You type WRT in a text to explain where your Scarsdale Adult School class meets, and it autocorrects to "WTF" on your too smart phone because it knows you use that acronym way more often.
• You know your "million dollar home" wouldn't be just a "million dollar home" if you just had another million to spend on it.
• You traded in your parenting helicopter for an SUV when you moved out of the city so you could ferry around your kids and their chatty friends to find out what they are REALLY thinking about.
• You realize that the real political power in this town lies with its nominating committees. So remind me again how many people actually vote in THOSE elections?
• You are a little mystified by the fact that a community of bona fide "one-percenters" seems completely preoccupied with whether or not their neighbors are paying "their fair share."
• You have a hot landscaper. He is also your plumber and your car mechanic. And your tennis pro. And you didn't know he even had some of these skills when you married him all those years ago.
• You think you are on the right track, but it would be easier to tell if Fox Meadow would just let us put lights on it.
• You go to Metro Deli and when you don't specify how you crispy you like your bacon, the waitress comments, "you are not from here, are you?"

The author cops to all of the stuff listed here.