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A loan for a legend.


Mark Cohen For the fictional character, see .

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Mark R. Cohen (born 1943) is a Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University.
, of L.J. Melody & Company's New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
 office, has arranged permanent fixed-rate financing in the amount of $28 million for the commercial condominium unit at the Ansonia.

The property is located at 2109 Broadway on Manhattan's fashionable Upper West Side.

The Ansonia is one of New York's most elegant turn-of-the-century buildings. Built in a majestic beaux-arts style Beaux-Arts style
 or Second Empire style or Second Empire Baroque

Architectural style developed at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. It enjoyed international dominance in the late 19th century (see
, the building features three facades of ornate limestone, brick and terra cotta cot·ta  
n. pl. cot·tae or cot·tas
A short surplice.



[Medieval Latin, of Germanic origin.]
. The Ansonia is listed in the National Registry of Historic Places and was reputed to be the largest hotel in the world at the time of its completion. Originally designed as a grand apartment hotel with every luxury of the period, it included a roof area that functioned as a small livestock farm to provide guests with fresh eggs, chickens, geese and ducks.

The Ansonia has been home to many notable people, including, among others, musical immortals Enrico Caruso, Sergei Rachimaninoff, Igor Stravinsky Noun 1. Igor Stravinsky - composer who was born in Russia but lived in the United States after 1939 (1882-1971)
Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky, Stravinsky
, and Arthur Toscanini, and from the world of sports, Babe Ruth and Jack Dempsey.

The Ansonia is comprised of four levels of commercial space and approximately 375 luxury residential condominium apartments.

The commercial condominium unit at the Ansonia consists of numerous upscale retailers reflecting the increasing affluence of the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Notable retailers include North Face, Commerce Bank, Sephora and Gristedes. It is also home to the American Musical and Dramatic Academy The American Musical and Dramatic Academy, or AMDA, is a school for the performing arts located New York City, New York, with a satellite campus in Los Angeles, California. , the premier school for Broadway musical theatre.
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Title Annotation:Finance: real estate
Publication:Real Estate Weekly
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Date:Dec 3, 2003
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