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Kensington's Oldest

Kensington's Oldest

NY Times tracks down New Yorks oldest residents, and one of them - Evelyn Kozak - grew up at 2816 Farragut Road over in Flatbush and has now moved back to live with family in Kensington:

Since Evelyn Kozak was born on the Lower East Side on Aug. 14, 1899, she has outlived two husbands and survived the Spanish flu and two strokes. She ran a boardinghouse in Miami until she was 90 and avidly played Scrabble until she was 95. In January, she moved in with a granddaughter — and eight great-grandchildren under 13 — in the Kensington section of Brooklyn, where she gets manicures, gives precise instructions on how to prepare her breakfast, and recently asked relatives to survey the planet for older eligible bachelors.

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