Press Release Details

Program Increased to $1.5 billion

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- SL Green Realty Corp. (NYSE:SLG), New York City's largest commercial property owner, today announced that the Company's Board of Directors authorized an increase to the size of its share repurchase program, announced in August 2016, by an additional $500 million of the Company's common stock, bringing the program to a total of $1.5 billion.

To date, the Company has repurchased 5,673,227 shares at an average price of $101.71.

SL Green's Chief Executive Officer, Marc Holliday, commented, "We continue to utilize available liquidity from asset sales to repurchase our common stock at meaningful discounts to the private market valuations of Manhattan real estate, as well as to our own net asset value. This has proven to be a viable deployment of capital, that is accretive to the Company's earnings and valuation, and we will continue to evaluate this option as part of a balanced investment strategy."

About SL Green Realty Corp.

SL Green Realty Corp., an S&P 500 company and New York City's largest office landlord, is a fully integrated real estate investment trust, or REIT, that is focused primarily on acquiring, managing and maximizing value of Manhattan commercial properties. As of September 30, 2017, SL Green held interests in 118 Manhattan buildings totaling 47.8 million square feet. This included ownership interests in 27.5 million square feet of Manhattan buildings and debt and preferred equity investments secured by 20.3 million square feet of buildings. In addition, SL Green held ownership interests in 27 suburban buildings totaling 4.3 million square feet in Brooklyn, Long Island, Westchester County, Connecticut and New Jersey. To be added to the Company's distribution list or to obtain the latest news releases and other Company information, please visit our website at www.slgreen.com or contact Investor Relations at (212) 594-2700.

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Investors:
Matt DiLiberto
Chief Financial Officer
SL Green Realty Corp.
212-594-2700
or
Press:
BerlinRosen
slgreen@berlinrosen.com
646-452-5637

Source: SL Green Realty Corp.

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