{"id":4817,"count":1,"description":"West Nyack is a hamlet and census-designated place in the town of Clarkstown, Rockland County, New York, United States. It is located north of Central Nyack, east of Nanuet, south of Valley Cottage, and west of Upper Nyack. It is approximately 18 miles (29\u00a0km) north of New York City. The population was 3,439 at the 2010 census.\nIn 1847, the hamlet was named Clarksville, renamed MontMoor, and since 1891 has been known as West Nyack.\nJane Kannif, the widow of a Scottish physician, lived in a small house on Germonds Road in West Nyack. She devoted herself to the care of her only child, a son by a previous marriage, named Tobias Lowrie. She treated, with great results, neighbors that came to her, using herbs and methods she learned from her late husband. But \"Naut Kannif\", as she was called, seemed to have been exceedingly eccentric. According to the people at that time she dressed oddly with strange hairdos and was unsociable. She was regarded as insane, and - worse yet - a witch. It was...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/west-nyack\/","name":"West Nyack","slug":"west-nyack","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/4817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=4817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}