In the spring of 2020, while most hotels across the country sat empty, the upstate Suminski Innski was packed with long-term guests. Meet the hotel's 22-person pandemic pod
Photo: Jessica Chappe In late spring of 2020, while most hotels across the country sat empty, the Suminski Innski, a three-story Italianate mansion turned bed and breakfast, was packed. In Room 2, a WNYC reporter — who, by that point, had been there for months — spent his days recording in a makeshift studio. Next door in Room 4, two children, ages 10 and 13, were convalescing from particularly bad cases of COVID.
In May, Voell reopened the inn to short-term guests. This means the pandemic residents who have continued to live there are now bouncing between rooms, staying wherever there’s space for them. Many, though, have headed elsewhere — back to the city, back to their parents’ homes. “During that time,” Voell says, “the inn was a boat, a cruise liner or something. I was the captain. And then it became a life raft, and we squeezed on as many people as we could for as long as we could.
Ryan Voell, Tim’s nephew, moved into the inn five years ago . Ryan has worked as a carpenter, a gardener, and a chef for the inn — and is now handling the summer reservations from a tent platform he and his uncle built in the backyard.Bard students Theophila Barickman and Theresa “Reese” Allore live in a camper behind the inn in exchange for work.
“When I tell people that I live with 15 people, they’re like, ‘Like a commune?’ And I’m like, ‘Maybe?’” says Zack Young , a Bard student studying foreign language, literature, and culture with concentrations in Spanish and Chinese.Natasha Dillahunt became sick with COVID-19 in March 2020. Next came her 13-year-old daughter, Flynn; then her 10-year-old daughter, Reilly-May; and then her husband, Jeremy . In June, Reilly-May was diagnosed with post-COVID multisystem inflammatory syndrome.
Ksenia Semenov and Yarosha decided to move to the inn after Yarosha’s school closed. Semenov first heard about the place from her friend Lena Siyanko, the director of PS21, who lived at the inn for a while in the early aughts. “Yarosha was going to school in Manhattan and struggling with English,” Ksenia says. “When he came here, he learned English so fast, like in two months, perfect English. Dark, who is like 50, became his best friend — they spent the whole summer together.
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