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VORNADO REALTY TRUST Director's Dealing 2017

Jan 18, 2017

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Director's Dealing

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SEC Form 4 — Statement of Changes in Beneficial Ownership

Issuer: VORNADO REALTY TRUST (VNO)
CIK: 0000899689
Period of Report: 2016-12-20

Reporting Person: ROTH STEVEN (Director, Chairman & CEO)

Non-Derivative Transactions

Date Security Code Shares Price A/D Holdings After Ownership
2016-12-20 Common Shares G 48000 Disposed 2975859 Direct
2016-12-29 Common Shares G 48850 Disposed 2927009 Direct

Derivative Transactions

Date Security Exercise Price Code Shares A/D Expiration Underlying Ownership
2017-01-13 Restricted Units $ A 38293 Acquired Common Shares (38293) Direct
2017-01-13 LTIP Units $ A 110915 Acquired Common Shares (110915) Direct

Holdings (Non-Derivative)

Security Shares Ownership
Common Shares 5503548 Indirect
Common Shares 3873 Indirect
Common Shares 37299 Indirect

Footnotes

F1: These common shares (the "Common Shares") of Vornado Realty Trust were a gift.

F2: These Common Shares are held by Interstate Properties, a New Jersey general partnership of which Mr. Roth is the managing general partner. The filing of this Form 4 shall not be deemed an admission that Mr. Roth is the beneficial owner of these 5,503,548 Common Shares, except to the extent of his pecuniary interest.

F3: These Common Shares are held by the Daryl and Steven Roth Foundation, a charitable foundation over which Mr. Roth holds sole voting and investment power. Mr. Roth disclaims any pecuniary interest in these Common Shares.

F4: These Common Shares are held by Mr. Roth's spouse. The filing of this Form 4 shall not be deemed an admission that Mr. Roth is the beneficial owner of these Common Shares.

F5: On January 13, 2017, the reporting person received a grant of restricted units (the "Restricted Units") of Vornado Realty L.P. (the "Operating Partnership"), the operating partnership of Vornado Realty Trust ("the Company''). The Restricted Units are a class of units of the Operating Partnership that following the occurrence of certain events and upon vesting are convertible by the holder into an equivalent number of Class A Units of the Operating Partnership ("Class A Units"). Class A Units of the Operating Partnership are redeemable by the holder for cash or, at the Company's election, Common Shares of the Company on a one-for-one basis or the cash value of such shares.

F6: The Restricted Units vest in equal portions over a four-year period with the initial vesting occurring on January 10, 2018.

F7: Represents LTIP Units ("LTIP Units") of Vornado Realty L.P. ("the Operating Partnership").

F8: The LTIP Units are a class of units of the Operating Partnership through which Vornado Realty Trust (the "Issuer") conducts its business, conditioned upon minimum allocations to the capital accounts of the LTIP Units for federal income tax purposes. The LTIP Units are convertible by the reporting person, upon vesting, into an equivalent number of Class A Units of the Operating Partnership, which are redeemable(subject to certain limitations set forth in the Operating Partnership limited partnership agreement), by the holder for Common Shares of the Issuer on a one for onebasis or the cash value of such shares, at the Issuer's option. The rights to convert LTIP Units into Class A Units and redeem Class A Units do not have expiration dates.

F9: Pursuant to the terms of the Vornado Realty Trust 2014 Outperformance Plan (the "Plan") the LTIP Units referenced in this Form 4 were issued on January 10, 2014 and were "earned" upon the achievement of performance hurdles as of January 10, 2017, subject to a determination by the Compensation Committee of the Issuer's Board of Trustees (the "Compensation Committee") that such hurdles were met. The determination that these performance hurdles were met was made by the Compensation Committee on January 13, 2017.

F10: Represents the number of LTIP Units "earned" as of January 13, 2017, based upon certain performance hurdles having been met by the Issuer and the percentage of the Reporting Person's interest in the performance pool established by the Issuer under the Plan.

F11: Other than 16,176 LTIP Units to be issued to the reporting person under the Plan based upon a dividend accrual, earned LTIP Units vest one third on each of January 10, 2017, 2018 and 2019.