Peter Stuyvesant cigarettes, a brand owned by Rothmans International (a company controlled by South Africa's Rupert family), are popular among all races but bought mostly by blacks.

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Vanderbilt constructed Biltmore as a bachelor, but soon found a suitable wife to serve as hostess: Edith Stuyvesant Dresser, a descendant of Peter Stuyvesant, New York's first colonial governor.

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In a November interview with Steve Forbes, Editorial Director and Associate Publisher of Real Capital Analytics Peter Slatin, used Stuyvesant Town- Peter Cooper Village as an example of the "suffering from fallout in values, undercut by the terrible over-leveraging of many properties" that has plagued the commercial real estate industry.

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In 2006, Tishman Speyer LP, which also controls Rockefeller Center and the Chrysler Building, and investment firm Black Rock bought Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village from Metlife.

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Stuyvesant Town and the slightly higher-end Peter Cooper Village were built in 1947, with the help of tax breaks, to provide homes for soldiers returning from the war and public-sector workers. (At first, at odds with the estates' current image as a model community, only whites were allowed, a policy that was abandoned, after some nasty scenes, in the 1950s.) The high-rise estates include 110 unremarkable brick buildings with 11, 232 apartments, home to about 25, 000 tenants.

ECONOMIST: Housing in New York