Empire State Realty Trust, Inc. is a real estate investment trust, which engages in owning, managing, acquiring, and repositioning office and retail properties. The company is headquartered in New York City, New York and currently employs 667 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2013-10-02. The firm owns, manages, operates, acquires and repositions office, retail and multifamily properties in Manhattan and the greater New York metropolitan area. The firm operates through two segments: Real Estate and Observatory. Its Real Estate segment includes all activities related to the ownership, management, operation, acquisition, repositioning and disposition of its real estate assets. Its Observatory segment operates the 86th and 102nd floor observatories at the Empire State Building. The firm owns approximately 12 office properties comprising approximately 8.9 million rentable square feet of office space. Its commercial portfolio also include four standalone retail properties located in Manhattan and two standalone retail properties located in the city center of Westport, Connecticut.