Empire State Realty Trust Announces 2016 Tax Treatment of Its Distributions

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Empire State Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: ESRT) (the “Company”), a leading real estate investment trust with office and retail properties in Manhattan and the greater New York metropolitan area, today announced the 2016 tax treatment of the Company’s Class A common stock distributions, as described below. The following table summarizes, for income tax purposes, the nature of the cash distributions paid by the Company to its stockholders during the year ended December 31, 2016 and the appropriate Form 1099-DIV box number. Shareholders are encouraged to consult with their personal tax advisors as to their specific tax treatment of the Company’s distributions.

CUSIP: 292104106						Box 1b Qualified Dividend (Included in Box 1a)
	Record Date	Payment Date	Total Distribution per Share	Total Distribution Allocable to 2016	Box 1a Ordinary Dividend
	3/16/2016	3/31/2016	$0.085000	$0.085000	$0.085000	$0.000915
	6/15/2016	6/30/2016	$0.105000	$0.105000	$0.105000	$0.001130
	9/19/2016	9/30/2016	$0.105000	$0.105000	$0.105000	$0.001130
	12/15/2016	12/29/2016	$0.105000	$0.105000	$0.105000	$0.001130
		Total	$0.400000	$0.400000	$0.400000	$0.004304

About Empire State Realty Trust

Empire State Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: ESRT), a leading real estate investment trust (REIT), owns, manages, operates, acquires and repositions office and retail properties in Manhattan and the greater New York metropolitan area, including the Empire State Building, the world’s most famous building. Headquartered in New York, New York, the Company’s office and retail portfolio covers 10.1 million rentable square feet, as of September 30, 2016, consisting of 9.4 million rentable square feet in 14 office properties, including nine in Manhattan, three in Fairfield County, Connecticut and two in Westchester County, New York; and approximately 707,000 rentable square feet in the retail portfolio.