---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001541401-25-000009"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ESRT"
cik: "0001541401"
company_name: "Empire State Realty Trust, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-04-03T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-23T22:34:04.832813+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Director Thomas J. DeRosa to retire from Empire State Realty Trust board at 2025 annual meeting

## Summary
- Thomas J. DeRosa will not stand for re-election at the May 15, 2025 Annual Meeting.
- His decision is not due to any disagreement with the Company.
- He has served as a director since the 2013 IPO.
- He will continue to serve until the Annual Meeting.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001541401-25-000009
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ESRT
- cik: 0001541401
- company_name: Empire State Realty Trust, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-04-03T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1541401/000154140125000009/0001541401-25-000009-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1541401/000154140125000009/esrt-20250331.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001541401-25-000009
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001541401-25-000009.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Thomas J. DeRosa departed as Director at Empire State Realty Trust, Inc..
  - Action: retire
  - Role: Director
  source text: Thomas J. DeRosa, a member of the board of directors (the “Board”), Chair of the Compensation Committee and a member of the Audit Committee of Empire State Realty Trust, Inc. (the “Company”), notified the Company of his intention to retire and not stand for re-election to the Board at the Company’s 2025 Annual Meeting of Shareholders, currently expected to be held on May 15, 2025 (the “Annual Meeting”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1541401/000154140125000009/0001541401-25-000009-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.