AIG headquarters in lower Manhattan

The New York Times:

The company paid the bonuses, including more than $1 million each to 73 people, to almost all of the employees in the financial products unit responsible for creating the exotic derivatives that caused A.I.G.’s near collapse and started the government rescue to avoid a global financial crisis.

The AIG building, originally, known as 70 Pine Street or the Cities Service Building, is one of the great Deco period skyscrapers, and still one of the tallest in the city.