Blue Moon Mexican Cafe recently opened a franchise restaurant at 261 South Little Tor Road in New City. The restaurant seats up to 75 guests. The cafe is owned and operated by Luna Azul New City LLC. Partners Jorge Vidal, Luis Miniet, and Carlos Perez are planning to open another Blue Moon Mexican Cafe franchise in Hastings-on-Hudson in mid-April.

New York Sports Clubs, the largest owner and operator of health and fitness clubs in the tri-state area, recently opened a club in New Rochelle. The club is located at 175 Huguenot Road on the second floor in the new 40-story luxury condominium at Trump Plaza. Amenities at the 42,000 square-foot club include full-court basketball, two swimming pools and four group exercise studios.

What do you do with extra office space? Turn it into a gym. At least that’s what the principals of U.S. Information Systems Inc. have done.

Having moved the 20-year-old communications company to larger offices in Pearl River from Nyack last year, the Lagana family was unsure what to do with extra space they had at the 92,000-square-foot building on West Jefferson Avenue.

Co-owner and business manager Robert Lagana had the idea to open a gym, and Vision Fitness was born.

The 32,000-square-foot club features 200 cardio and stength machines, weight machines, free weights and stretching apparatuses.

In addition, the gym also has a five-lane sprinting track, an artificial turf field, group exercise rooms and classes and a large screen cinema that allows customers to watch movies while working out on treadmills, cycles and elipitical machines.

Vision Fitness also boasts a Youth Fit Zone with equipment geared to children 8 to 15 years old, such as cycle machines with video games and Dance Dance Revolution, a popular youth fitness game.

To learn more about the gym, go to www.visionfitnessny.com.

Students at Purchase College SUNY in search of a Starbucks fix can now have that need met on campus with the opening of a new Starbucks store in the Fort Awesome residence hall.

The new café features wireless Internet connectivity and is the only franchise in the country, the college said, to serve three blends of coffee produced under fair-trade principles, such as sustainable farming and fair labor conditions.

The Center for Ultrasound Research and Education, a school for ultrasound instruction, will hold a grand opening next Friday at Suite 1111 of the Kaufman Building at 271 North Ave. in New Rochelle. Mayor Noam Bramson will attend.

Pediatric dentist Fern E. Cytryn has opened a new practice in New City geared toward kids.

The office at 16 Squadron Blvd. offers preventative, routine and emergency dental services for infants, children and teens in a Disney-themed environment.

For more information, go to www.drfernsmile.com or call Cytryn’s office at 845-634-3200.

New York Bagels, a new deli and catering business owned by Bret Conklin and Jay Maiolini, has opened at 1032 Yonkers Ave. in Yonkers.

In response to recalls of foreign-made products and the decline of U.S. manufacturing, a trio of Rocklanders have established a Web site called America’s Business to Consumers (www.usab2c.com) that features only U.S.-made goods.

Offerings run the gamut from apparel to Zippo lighters — “from A to Z,� according to one of the site’s founders, George Hanos, who retired from drug-maker Pfizer Inc. in 2004.

Hanos, 54, along with two sisters-in-law, Denetra Anayannis of Pomona and Nanuet-resident Sophia Anayannis, who edits a community blog and chat room on the site, wanted to make a difference.

“We asked ourselves, ‘What could one person really do … to stop the flow of knowledgeable jobs overseas?’â€? Hanos said.

Many of the manufacturers featured on the site are mom-and-pop operations, he said.

USAB2C.com acts as a portal Web site, having products shipped directly to consumers from the manufacturers.

Items include wooden toys from Maple Landmark Inc., based in Middlebury, Vt., and Holgate Toys of Bradford, Pa., which have none of lead-paint concerns of toys made in China, Hanos said.

The site has been up-and-running since the beginning of November in anticipation of the Christmas selling season, he said.

How’d sales do?

“For a start-up,� Hanos said. “it worked out pretty good.�

Fitness Together recently opened at Colonial Square, 329 Route 59 East in Airmont. The business offers fitness training for men and women who can work with a personal trainer to achieve fitness goals. Fitness Together, operating in the United States, Canada, Israel, Ireland and Costa Rica, recently sold its 600th franchise.

Hudson Property Advisors LLC recently opened in Mount Kisco. It is a real estate advisory services company specializing in appraisal of commercial, industrial, residential and vacant land in the Hudson Valley area. The owner is Jonathan Bernz, a real estate consulting advisor and appraiser for nearly 25 years.

Hollow Brook Golf Club in Cortlandt Manor recently opened a 2,800-square foot banquet pavilion that is designed for corporate events, private parties and weddings. The pavilion, which is now is now accepting reservations from the public, can accommodate events with up to 200 guests. The complex features views of the golf course and surrounding mountains. For more information, call 866-921-5984, ext. 1114, or go to www.golfhollowbrook.com.

ENT and Allergy Associates LLP said yesterday it will expand further in New Jersey next March following a merger with North Jersey Ear, Nose, Throat & Hearing Center, based in Denville.

The merger will result in the opening of a new 5,000-square-foot office in Parsippany, where North Jersey’s roster of three doctors will be joined by two more next summer.

The Parsippany office will be the sixth New Jersey location for Greenburgh-based ENT. Following the merger, ENT and Allergy Associates will have 81 physicians in 25 offices in New York state and New Jersey.

The Westchester Medical Practice PC, a new primary-care provider in Yorktown Heights headed by Dr. James Trapasso, opens its doors Friday at 2050 Saw Mill River Road.

As a community service, the office will provide free flu shots 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. on Friday.

Trapasso, an osteopathic doctor board certified in internal medicine, is affiliated with Hudson Valley Hospital Center in Cortlandt.

PsychoGenics Inc., an Eastview-based biotechnology company, said yesterday it has entered into agreement with Cephalon Inc., a Pennsylvania biopharmaceutical company.

The pact calls for Cephalon to provide PsychoGenics with compounds believed to be useful in treating neuropsychiatric disorders.

PsychoGenics and Cephalon plan to jointly identify drug candidates suitable for clinical development, PsychoGenesis said.

If Cephalon undertakes further development of the clinical candidates, PsychoGenics will receive milestone payments as well as royalties, and vice versa.

Financial terms of deal weren’t disclosed.

White Plains-based Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. plans to open the second Element hotel in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area. The hotel giant has an agreement with an affiliate of The Buccini/Pollin Group to open the hotel at the Dulles Parkway Center in Dulles, Va., in February 2010. Element Dulles North will incorporate ecologically friendly materials, including carpets made from 100 percent recycled materials and low toxicity paint, to improve indoor air quality. The 123-room hotel will include complete kitchens in all the rooms as well as oversized spa showers.

Dr. Howard Bank, a podiatrist, has begun offering his services at Com-Fit Shoes at 138 E. Post Road in White Plains, in addition to his primary office on Martine Avenue.

Bank, whose practice is known as Westchester Footcare, has built two treatment rooms at new Com-Fit Shoes location to provide on-site podiatric care.

The combination allows for one-stop shopping for adults looking for footcare as well as new shoes, according to Bank and Com-Fit owner Fred Satin.

Com-Fit Shoes occupied space in the Cross County Shopping Center in Yonkers for 22 years before moving to White Plains.

Citibank has opened a financial center at 238 North Ave. in New Rochelle. The bank will provide financial services for consumers and small businesses. Representatives can assist customers in Spanish and Creole. Hours are 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. during the week, except for Thursday, when it’s open from 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. The bank is open Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

1800mattress.com has opened a Mount Kisco showroom as part of its plan to expand in Westchester County following the bankruptcy and closure of Rockaway Bedding this summer. The store, at 383 Bedford Road, is the fifth in Westchester.

The chain, based in Long Island City, is also looking a several locations for future stores, said John O’Connell, senior vice president of merchandising and retail.

“We have a terrific market share in Westchester … so we feel very strongly about Westchester County,â€? he said. “We’re not going to blanket the area with a lot of showrooms, but we’re going to make sure they’re in the right places. … Because we do business three ways, we strategically place stores where the customers most need it based on the data we receive from the phone business and the Internet.â€?

The Mount Kisco store has a new design with the atmosphere of a bedroom.

“You’ll have a very intimate setting, very soft,â€? O’Connell said, mentioning decorative curtains and other bedroom decor. “We’ve kind of forgone the basic visual appearance of a retail shop. …â€?
Other Westchester locations are in Mamaroneck, Scarsdale, Ossining and Jefferson Valley.

Rack & Go, a new vehicle outfitting store that offers discounts to customers with hybrid cars, has opened at 10 Robertson Ave. off Route 119 in White Plains. The store sells and installs racks, cargo boxes, baskets, bags, hitches and trailers as well as other accessories for cars and trucks.

New York City-based Morton Williams, the family-owned chain of food markets that bought Turco’s on North Central Avenue in Hartsdale last year, will hold a grand opening Saturday at 11 a.m.