Lease	3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2012
Lease [Abstract]
Lease	Note C Lease Registrant does not operate the Property. Registrant leases the Property to Fisk Building Associates L.L.C. (the “Lessee”) under a long-term net operating lease dated May 1, 1954 (the “Lease”). In 1985, the Participants in Registrant consented to Registrant’s Agents granting Lessee four options to extend the Lease, in each case for an additional twenty-five year renewal period, the last expiring in 2103, all on the same terms as the original lease. The Agents intend to grant such options on behalf of Registrant, subject to Lessee’s compliance with such consents. Such options have been granted by the Agents and exercised by Lessee as to (a) the first renewal period from October 1, 2003 through September 30, 2028, and (b) the second renewal period from October 1, 2028 through September 30, 2053. The Participants in Registrant have consented to the granting of options to the Lessee to extend the lease for two additional 25-year renewal terms expiring in 2103. Lessee is a New York limited liability company whose members consist of, among others, Anthony E. Malkin and entities for the benefit of members of Peter L. Malkin’s and Anthony E. Malkin’s family. Under the Lease, effective May 1, 1975, between Registrant and Lessee, basic annual rent (“Basic Rent”) was equal to mortgage principal and interest payments plus $28,000 for partial payment to Malkin Holdings for supervisory services. The lease modification dated November 17, 2000, and as further modified, between Registrant and Lessee provides that Basic Rent will be equal to the sum of $28,000 plus the installment payments for interest and amortization (not including any balloon payment due at maturity) currently payable on all mortgages. Basic Rent is payable in monthly installments on the first day of each calendar month in an amount equal to $2,333.33 plus the projected debt service due on the mortgages on the first day of the ensuing calendar month (with a reconciliation to be made as soon as practicable thereafter). Basic Rent shall be adjusted on a dollar-for-dollar basis by changes in the annual debt service on the mortgages. See Note D. Lessee is required to make a monthly payment to Registrant, as an advance against primary overage rent (“Primary Overage Rent”), of an amount equal to its operating profit for its previous lease year in the maximum amount of $752,000 per annum. Lessee currently advances $752,000 each year, which is recorded in revenues in monthly installments of $62,667 and permits Registrant to make regular monthly distributions at 20% per annum on the Participants’ remaining original cash investment (which remaining cash investment at March 31, 2012, was equal to the participants’ original cash investment of $3,600,000) and to pay $1,667 monthly to Supervisor as an advance of the additional payment (the “Additional Payment”). Lessee is also required to make an annual payment to Registrant of secondary overage rent (“Secondary Overage Rent”) subsequent to September 30 ^th of the amount representing 50% of the excess of the net operating profit (as defined) of the Lessee for the lease year ending September 30 over the Primary Overage Rent of $752,000, less the amount representing interest earned and retained by Registrant on funds borrowed for the building improvement program described below. It is not practical to estimate Secondary Overage Rent for the lease year ending on September 30 which would be allocable to the first nine months of the lease year until the Lessee, pursuant to the Lease, renders to Registrant a report on the operation of the Property. Registrant recognizes Secondary Overage Rent when earned from the Lessee, at the close of the lease year ending September 30 and records such amount in revenue in the three months ended September 30. Rent income, earned from a related party, was $1,054,236 and $1,005,667 for the quarter ended March 31, 2012 and 2011, respectively. For the lease year ended September 30, 2011, Lessee reported net operating profit of $9,452,901 after deduction of Basic Rent. Lessee paid Primary Overage Rent of $752,000 for that lease year prior to September 30, 2011 and Secondary Overage Rent of $4,350,339 subsequent to September 30, 2011. The Secondary Overage Rent of $4,350,339 represents 50% of the excess of the Lessee’s net operating profit of $9,452,901 over $752,000, less $111 representing interest earned and retained by Registrant on funds borrowed for the improvement program. As a result, the Secondary Overage Rent paid by the Lessee subsequent to September 30, 2011 of $4,350,339 plus $111 of interest income was available for distribution by the Registrant to the Participants. After deducting $1,500,000 for (i) fees relating to a proposed consolidation of Registrant, other public and private entities supervised by Malkin Holdings and Malkin Holdings and certain affiliated management companies into Empire State Realty Trust, Inc., a Maryland corporation which intends to qualify for U.S. tax purposes as a REIT, (ii) the increase in the supervisory fee to the Supervisor, (iii) accounting fees, (iv) general contingencies, (v) the Additional Payment to Supervisor of $284,745 (Item 11), and (vi) the annual New York State filing fees of $3,000, the balance of $2,562,705 was distributed by Registrant to the Participants on December 14, 2011. As a result of its revenue recognition policy, rental income for the year ending December 31 includes the advances of Primary Overage Rent received from October 1 to December 31, but does not include any portion of Secondary Overage Rent based on the Lessee’s operations during that period.

Lease

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2012

Note C Lease

Registrant does not operate the Property. Registrant leases the Property to Fisk Building Associates L.L.C. (the “Lessee”) under a long-term net operating lease dated May 1, 1954 (the “Lease”). In 1985, the Participants in Registrant consented to Registrant’s Agents granting Lessee four options to extend the Lease, in each case for an additional twenty-five year renewal period, the last expiring in 2103, all on the same terms as the original lease. The Agents intend to grant such options on behalf of Registrant, subject to Lessee’s compliance with such consents. Such options have been granted by the Agents and exercised by Lessee as to (a) the first renewal period from October 1, 2003 through September 30, 2028, and (b) the second renewal period from October 1, 2028 through September 30, 2053. The Participants in Registrant have consented to the granting of options to the Lessee to extend the lease for two additional 25-year renewal terms expiring in 2103. Lessee is a New York limited liability company whose members consist of, among others, Anthony E. Malkin and entities for the benefit of members of Peter L. Malkin’s and Anthony E. Malkin’s family.

Under the Lease, effective May 1, 1975, between Registrant and Lessee, basic annual rent (“Basic Rent”) was equal to mortgage principal and interest payments plus $28,000 for partial payment to Malkin Holdings for supervisory services. The lease modification dated November 17, 2000, and as further modified, between Registrant and Lessee provides that Basic Rent will be equal to the sum of $28,000 plus the installment payments for interest and amortization (not including any balloon payment due at maturity) currently payable on all mortgages. Basic Rent is payable in monthly installments on the first day of each calendar month in an amount equal to $2,333.33 plus the projected debt service due on the mortgages on the first day of the ensuing calendar month (with a reconciliation to be made as soon as practicable thereafter). Basic Rent shall be adjusted on a dollar-for-dollar basis by changes in the annual debt service on the mortgages. See Note D.

Lessee is required to make a monthly payment to Registrant, as an advance against primary overage rent (“Primary Overage Rent”), of an amount equal to its operating profit for its previous lease year in the maximum amount of $752,000 per annum. Lessee currently advances $752,000 each year, which is recorded in revenues in monthly installments of $62,667 and permits Registrant to make regular monthly distributions at 20% per annum on the Participants’ remaining original cash investment (which remaining cash investment at March 31, 2012, was equal to the participants’ original cash investment of $3,600,000) and to pay $1,667 monthly to Supervisor as an advance of the additional payment (the “Additional Payment”).

Lessee is also required to make an annual payment to Registrant of secondary overage rent (“Secondary Overage Rent”) subsequent to September 30 ^th of the amount representing 50% of the excess of the net operating profit (as defined) of the Lessee for the lease year ending September 30 over the Primary Overage Rent of $752,000, less the amount representing interest earned and retained by Registrant on funds borrowed for the building improvement program described below. It is not practical to estimate Secondary Overage Rent for the lease year ending on September 30 which would be allocable to the first nine months of the lease year until the Lessee, pursuant to the Lease, renders to Registrant a report on the operation of the Property. Registrant recognizes Secondary Overage Rent when earned from the Lessee, at the close of the lease year ending September 30 and records such amount in revenue in the three months ended September 30.

Rent income, earned from a related party, was $1,054,236 and $1,005,667 for the quarter ended March 31, 2012 and 2011, respectively.

For the lease year ended September 30, 2011, Lessee reported net operating profit of $9,452,901 after deduction of Basic Rent. Lessee paid Primary Overage Rent of $752,000 for that lease year prior to September 30, 2011 and Secondary Overage Rent of $4,350,339 subsequent to September 30, 2011. The Secondary Overage Rent of $4,350,339 represents 50% of the excess of the Lessee’s net operating profit of $9,452,901 over $752,000, less $111 representing interest earned and retained by Registrant on funds borrowed for the improvement program. As a result, the Secondary Overage Rent paid by the Lessee subsequent to September 30, 2011 of $4,350,339 plus $111 of interest income was available for distribution by the Registrant to the Participants. After deducting $1,500,000 for (i) fees relating to a proposed consolidation of Registrant, other public and private entities supervised by Malkin Holdings and Malkin Holdings and certain affiliated management companies into Empire State Realty Trust, Inc., a Maryland corporation which intends to qualify for U.S. tax purposes as a REIT, (ii) the increase in the supervisory fee to the Supervisor, (iii) accounting fees, (iv) general contingencies, (v) the Additional Payment to Supervisor of $284,745 (Item 11), and (vi) the annual New York State filing fees of $3,000, the balance of $2,562,705 was distributed by Registrant to the Participants on December 14, 2011.

As a result of its revenue recognition policy, rental income for the year ending December 31 includes the advances of Primary Overage Rent received from October 1 to December 31, but does not include any portion of Secondary Overage Rent based on the Lessee’s operations during that period.

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The entire disclosure for operating leases of a lessor. This may inlcude a general description of lessor's leasing arrangements for operating leases, including the basis on which contingent rental payments are determined, the existence and terms of renewal or purchase options and escalation clauses, restrictions imposed by lease arrangements, such as those concerning dividends, additional debt, and further leasing, rent holidays, rent concessions, or leasehold improvement incentives and unusual provisions or conditions.

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