• 03 Feb 2009 at 5:13 PM

Where It ALL WENT DOWN

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Courtesy of Fox Business, interior shots of Madoff Securities in the Lipstick Building on Third Ave. Spirit fingers for the first person to get us pics of the office in Astoria:
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    Comments (32)

    1. 1
      Posted by guest | February 3, 2009 at 5:16 PM

      Too ponzi, didn’t scheme
      …first…

    2. 2
      Posted by guest | February 3, 2009 at 5:16 PM

      hey look! Those analyst douchebags look like every other analyst douchebag!
      Those chairs in the conf. room look like they are made for some pretty fat asses.

    3. 3
      Posted by Anal_yst | February 3, 2009 at 5:22 PM

      Looks like it was last redecorated somewhere around 1990, +/-, no?

    4. 4
      Posted by guest | February 3, 2009 at 5:24 PM

      what is an “astoria”?

    5. 5
      Posted by guest | February 3, 2009 at 5:26 PM

      picture of analysts looking at porn..not like they needed to track anything else

    6. 6
      Posted by guest | February 3, 2009 at 5:28 PM

      Article in the Times said Bern was obsessive compulsive about the decor. All grey, black and white, not a chair out of place, not a speck of paper on the floor. Said someone was eating a peach, the juice dripped and BM practically had a heart attack.

    7. 7
      Posted by guest | February 3, 2009 at 5:32 PM

      @5′s got it right – when you don’t have to worry about stocks going up and down, you have plenty of time to worry about chairs out of place and peach juice on the floor.

    8. 8
      Posted by girl | February 3, 2009 at 5:33 PM

      I’ve never been in a meeting where the chairs didn’t have wheels. Is that normal?

    9. 9
      Posted by guest | February 3, 2009 at 5:34 PM

      too cgi, didn’t volatile

    10. 10
      Posted by guest | February 3, 2009 at 5:41 PM

      uh, the Lipstick building is on Lexington Ave…

    11. 11
      Posted by guest | February 3, 2009 at 5:41 PM

      8 I was just at a client’s where the chairs in the conf room had wheels that retracted when you sat down. You could pull the chair out, but when you sat down, couldn’t easily slide it in under the table. You had to first figure out what was happening – why isnt this chair moving? – and then half stand and pull it in under you, then plop down the last minute as your legs were forced under the table. Maybe the idea was to get you off your guard? It worked. Totally cloddish way to start a meeting.

    12. 12
      Posted by guest | February 3, 2009 at 5:43 PM

      10 Uh, no its not: Third, between 53/54. At the eastern end of the Lexington Avenue E/V subway stop.

    13. 13
      Posted by guest | February 3, 2009 at 5:46 PM

      too lip – couldn’t stick

    14. 14
      Posted by girl | February 3, 2009 at 5:48 PM

      @ 11, ha! That’s killer. Sort of on par with chairs that have 2 height adjustments- The High Chair and the one that makes you look like a midget. Sometimes you can’t win.

    15. 15
      Posted by guest | February 3, 2009 at 5:57 PM

      Too computer generated, didn’t invest.

    16. 16
      Posted by guest | February 3, 2009 at 6:02 PM

      Couldn’t the hi res images be linked to rather than be made the default images for the story page? This is taking too long to load.
      That office is hideous and also architecturally unsettling. So many curved surfaces in a workplace is confounding. Did Bernie design the place for rapid turnover in the spirit of a McDonalds?

    17. 17
      Posted by guest | February 3, 2009 at 6:17 PM

      @6 “juice dripped and BM practically had a heart attack. ”
      Am I the only one who finds that statement funny? I’m surpised not too many people have exploited his initials more!

    18. 18
      Posted by guest | February 3, 2009 at 6:34 PM

      @10, you’re wrong. Go back to Hoboken.

    19. 19
      Posted by TheBlackstoneGroupie | February 3, 2009 at 6:39 PM

      Bernard Madoff was not a good man… :(
      What a financial sociopath…

    20. 20
      Posted by guest | February 3, 2009 at 7:14 PM

      they could’ve had the monitors unplugged and produced the same results…wouldve been more green-friendly that way
      ya know….lowered his ponzi footprint
      TRB

    21. 21
      Posted by guest | February 3, 2009 at 7:41 PM

      Where’s the picture of Mark and Andrew Madoff filling up suitcases with $100 bills
      ??????????????

    22. 22
      Posted by guest | February 3, 2009 at 8:05 PM

      @19 – I don’t know how much more of your shit I can take. Financial illiteracy? OK, fine. $845.76 portfolio size? Borderline, especially when you brag about owning the company’s that many people on this blog work for. But, whatevs, I was willing to let it slide.
      but now you’ve gone and done it. emoticons? A little fucking frowny face? I’m about to go Christian Bale on your ass. Geezz…..

    23. 23
      Posted by merkin capital partners | February 3, 2009 at 8:13 PM

      @3 i’m with you….looks like Will Smith’s apartment in Bad Boys the first.

    24. 24
      Posted by TheBlackstoneGroupie | February 3, 2009 at 8:28 PM

      bwahahahahaha
      I am being attacked by individuals who received their “bonuses” from the taxpayers of the United States. Financial illiteracy, coming from people on Wall Street who needed the Feds to bail them out…bwhahahahaha!
      And if my stock portfolio SUCKS so bad, it’s performance is a reflection of the people who work in the financial industry…
      :p
      I can be on this site AS LONG as I want…I bet you pay the AMT, don’t ya???
      I could care less, and if people wanna smoke weed with me, FINE, I’ll share it…I have always wanted to pull bong hits with Erin Callan!~
      http://www.myspace.com/john_brown_esquire
      It’s SAD, it’s TRUE, I have equity in you!! And if you don’t like it, have your company private…*WE* can help you at Lazard, for all your advisory needs..LMFAO
      Do they serve food at the annual shareholders meetings?? Just curious…

    25. 25
      Posted by guest | February 3, 2009 at 8:32 PM

      Too U.S.S., didn’t Enterprise D

    26. 26
      Posted by guest | February 3, 2009 at 9:35 PM

      speaking of Fox:
      i glanced at the journal on the train ride home today. i thought i read in the story on oil market trading, on the front of the “money” section, a claim about the gasoline crack that was absurd. did the reporter really compare the cracks in differing front months and pretend those could be arbed without (storage) cost?

    27. 27
      Posted by guest | February 3, 2009 at 9:46 PM

      Went down + Bess = couldn’t read

    28. 28
      Posted by guest | February 3, 2009 at 10:41 PM

      should i choose a side at 9th and pine?

    29. 29
      Posted by guest | February 3, 2009 at 11:03 PM

      I love the fact that the Roy Lichtenstein Prints in the Conference room are the Bull Series where Lichtenstein takes an image of a Bull and over 6 pictures turns it into a complete abstraction. I think it is a perfect metaphore for what Bernie did as well.

    30. 30
      Posted by guest | February 4, 2009 at 12:27 AM

      What the Christ, it’s like the Starship Enterprise, except without wheeled chairs. Beam me up, Bernie.

    31. 31
      Posted by guest | February 4, 2009 at 1:39 AM

      Is this the meeting room window Bernie threw the “Madoff Letter” from? ……
      http://pacificgatepost.blogspot.com/2009/01/bernie-madoff-letter-of-explanation.html
      What a mensch. Just a narcissistic one.

    32. 32
      Posted by guest | February 4, 2009 at 1:22 PM

      Looks like something out of Tron

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