Manhattanites with money come to Hillsdale, a town of 1,800 about 20 minutes west of Hudson, when they want to slow down. About ten years ago, Jamie Carano Nordenström and her husband, Philip Nordenström, two consultants in their late 30s, bought and restored a neo-Colonial farmhouse there; it was meant to be a weekend home, but they liked the peace and quiet so much that they eventually moved in full time. In the summer of 2024, Jamie gave birth to their daughter. The couple wanted their baby to be raised “at least” bilingual — Philip is Swedish — but they struggled to find au pairs willing to come to Hillsdale. They settled for a nanny. “Guest house is provided,” the couple’s ad on the website Nanny Lane read. “Candidate could spend partial weekends upstate.”

A woman named Barbara Mol

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