Ruby Schron, modest mogul

The investor could become the city’s next billionaire landlord, despite eschewing the spotlight

Ruby Schron
Ruby Schron

From the December issue: Ruby Schron is not the type of real estate mogul who has racks of shiny suits spilling out of his closet.

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Associates of the septuagenarian investor describe him as “the opposite of pretentious” and “anything but glitzy” — a man so careful with his money that he still lives in the same single-family home in Brooklyn where he raised his eight children, even as his fortune has swelled into the hundreds of millions of dollars. [more]