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He was a great-great-grandson of real estate and fur magnate John Jacob Astor, one of the United States' first multimillionaires.
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"There's a point of view from many people in the fashion industry that having real leather or fur pieces adds a kind of elevated conception, " she said.
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Brooke was married to Vincent Astor (died 1959), an heir to the Astor fur and real estate fortune.
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The central characters' parents some immigrant and impoverished, others here for a generation and flourishing work as buttonmakers, have small factories, run flop houses, are fur-workers, real-estate operators, cigarmakers, grocery- and furniture-store proprietors, and, in one notable instance, the political boss of the Jewish West Side.
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Roge likes Winthrop Realty Trust, Inc. (FUR), an unlevered way to invest, and Third Avenue Real Estate Value Fund (TAREX).
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