AIG Headquarters for Sale

[Stingo]

$100 million seems like a bargain for a 66 story skyscraper in the canyons of NY City’s financial district. It includes executives running scared.

http://allspinzone.com/wp/2009/03/18/aig-headquarters-for-sale/

[Donnachaidh]

1. if I had the money I'd buy it and LEVEL the stinking thing.

And LEAVE it as a memorial to American GREED. :grr:

[Stingo]

2. It could be converted

to low income housing.

[Donnachaidh]

3. ha haha -- hadn't thought of that

Let's get some of those low cost families forced into the outer boroughs to move right in. Sixty six floors of section eight housing should make some heads spin in Manhattan. :rofl:

We can even offer the city offices for food stamp distribution on the first floor.

[burythehatchet]

4. It is a beautiful structure. One of the landmarks of downtown.

I inhabited a cubicle on the 23rd floor for some time. Stunning art deco architecture. Greenburg bought it for a pittance and rehabbed it. 70 Pine St. - lots of memories...I forget the name but there is a swanky bar off the lobby where we would go when we got snowed in at work. It was where as a young man I saw the opulence that the executives enjoyed. The executive offices were indescribable. A couple of floors were reserved for executive dining. These were clubs as fine as any restaurant in Manhattan. All the service was provided by oriental people. CV Starr and Greenburg had a unique relationship with the countries of the Far East.

In one corner of the lower lobby was a shoe shine guy that had been there for decades. He used to go up into the board room when meetings took place to shine the shoes of the dignitaries. One time a head of state of an African nation was there and he declined to have his shoes shined. The shoe shine guy said "aw, where he comes from they don't wear shoes anyway". Greenburg kicked him out and never allowed him to come up there again.