Sarah Garland reports for The New York Sun today:

An elderly woman was carried out of her bedbug-infested Queens home by paramedics in isolation suits after she was found immobilized yesterday morning, fire officials said.

She fell on Tuesday night and was taken to Peninsula Hospital according to The Sun. She lives at Baxter’s, a single-room-occupancy hotel in Rockaway Park.

Three years ago Ann Kenny was identified as Annie Kenney by Corey Kilgannon in a New York Times story about Baxter’s hotel:

Next door is Annie Kenney, 82, a Brooklyn native who took her disability checks and retired to the Rockaways. She can barely climb stairs because her knees are shot. So Mr. Reeder runs her errands and she stays up in her room for days at a time.

“I’m used to it,” she said. “I keep busy with the radio and the TV. I like sports and the news.”

“The people here are all special people,” she added. “I say a prayer for every one of them.”

Weekly rent at Baxter’s in 2005 was $130.

Mr. Reeder is the Baxter’s superintendent according to The Sun.

In a 2001 profile of hotel proprietor John Baxter in the Times, Charlie Leduff described Baxter’s Hotel:

The barnlike hotel was built in 1837 as a rooming house with a fish store on the main floor. Nothing much has changed. There are still 34 rooms rented upstairs and, though the fish store is gone, there is still a stink wafting from the first floor.

We hope Ms. Kenney will be okay. More than that, we hope she doesn’t have to come home to bed bugs.

You can see photos of Baxter’s Hotel and its Rockaway Park neighborhood on Forgotten New York,

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