Correction

Due to a technical error, the first paragraph of Khristina Lew's front-page story, "Renovated historic site houses Ukraine's Consulate General" (The Weekly, February 13), was not printed. The missing section follows.

NEW YORK - When Mrs. Walton Martin conceived in 1919 to purchase 20 back-to-back houses between 48th and 49th streets on Manhattan's East Side to redevelop them with a common garden, the idea was considered bohemian. The owners of 240 E. 49th St., a family named Kennedy, refused to sell, and, after the Italian gardens with their fountains, statuary and 12-foot-wide common walkway went up, insisted on hanging their laundry in the common backyard. Unable to convince Mrs. Kennedy to hang her laundry on the roof as the other 19 owners had agreed to do, the neighbors built an eight-foot wall surrounding the property.

Today, 240 E. 49th St. is still considered a unique property - not only is it the only brownstone in Turtle Bay Gardens Historic District to have a walled-off backyard with the original laundry hooks still in place, but it is home to Ukraine's first Consulate General in New York.

Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, February 20, 1994, No. 8, Vol. LXII

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