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Brooklyn resident Susannah “Miss Susie” Mushatt Jones, the world’s oldest person, died last week at the age of 116. [Brooklyn Paper]
Brooklyn Brewery will soon sign a 40-year lease for a new headquarters at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. They will make the move from their current home base, Williamsburg, in 2018. [Wall Street Journal]
Plans are underway to build a pair of 50-story residential units where a parking lot currently stands on Cherry Street. [Bowery Boogie]
Citi Bike is launching a program called “Bike Angels,” where riders who help out by checking their rides back into empty docks will earn free membership extensions. [Gothamist]
The national chain Cava Grill will open its first New York outpost on Fourth Avenue near Union Square. [EV Grieve]
This weekend, party producers the Brooklyn Mirage will return to Williamsburg with a 6K-person pop-up venue on Gardner Street. [DNA Info]
Here’s the line-up for the Bushwick Collective’s annual musical block party, taking place on June 4. [Bushwick Bomb]
Actress Chloë Sevigny explained to a British paper why she moved away from the East Village. [The Guardian]