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Related Party Transactions | 12 Months Ended
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Related Party Transactions [Abstract] |
Related Party Transactions | RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS Vornado As of December 31, 2020, Vornado owned 32.4% of our outstanding common stock. We are managed by, and our properties are leased and developed by, Vornado, pursuant to the agreements described below, which expire in March of each year and are automatically renewable. Steven Roth is the Chairman of our Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer, the Managing General Partner of Interstate Properties (“Interstate”), a New Jersey general partnership, and the Chairman of the Board of Trustees and Chief Executive Officer of Vornado. As of December 31, 2020, Mr. Roth, Interstate and its other two general partners, David Mandelbaum and Russell B. Wight, Jr. (who are also directors of the Company and trustees of Vornado) owned, in the aggregate, 26.1% of our outstanding common stock, in addition to the 2.3% they indirectly own through Vornado. Matthew Iocco, our Chief Financial Officer, is the Executive Vice President - Chief Accounting Officer of Vornado. Management and Development Agreements We pay Vornado an annual management fee equal to the sum of (i) $2,800,000, (ii) 2% of gross revenue from the Rego Park II shopping center, (iii) $0.50 per square foot of the tenant-occupied office and retail space at 731 Lexington Avenue, and (iv) $334,000, escalating at 3% per annum, for managing the common area of 731 Lexington Avenue. Vornado is also entitled to a development fee equal to 6% of development costs, as defined. Leasing and Other Agreements Vornado also provides us with leasing services for a fee of 3% of rent for the first ten years of a lease term, 2% of rent for the eleventh through the twentieth year of a lease term, and 1% of rent for the twenty-first through thirtieth year of a lease term, subject to the payment of rents by tenants. In the event third-party real estate brokers are used, the fees to Vornado increase by 1% and Vornado is responsible for the fees to the third-party real estate brokers. Vornado is also entitled to a commission upon the sale of any of our assets equal to 3% of gross proceeds, as defined, for asset sales less than $50,000,000 and 1% of gross proceeds, as defined, for asset sales of $50,000,000 or more. We also have agreements with Building Maintenance Services, a wholly owned subsidiary of Vornado, to supervise (i) cleaning, engineering and security services at our Lexington Avenue property and (ii) security services at our Rego Park I and Rego Park II properties and The Alexander apartment tower. 5. RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS - continued The following is a summary of fees to Vornado under the various agreements discussed above.
| Year Ended December 31,
(Amounts in thousands) | 2020 |  | 2019 |  | 2018
Company management fees | $ | 2,800 |  |  | $ | 2,800 |  |  | $ | 2,800 |
Development fees | 489 |  |  | 29 |  |  | 125 |
Leasing fees | 276 |  |  | 4,786 |  |  | 13 |
Property management, cleaning, engineering |  |  |  |  |
and security fees | 5,051 |  |  | 5,015 |  |  | 4,101 |
| $ | 8,616 |  |  | $ | 12,630 |  |  | $ | 7,039 |
As of December 31, 2020, the amounts due to Vornado were $845,000 for management, property management, cleaning, engineering and security fees; $557,000 for development fees; and $114,000 for leasing fees. As of December 31, 2019, the amounts due to Vornado were $795,000 for management, property management, cleaning, engineering and security fees; $68,000 for development fees; and $563,000 for leasing fees.

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