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Vornado Realty Trust, et al. – ‘10-Q’ for 3/31/18 – ‘EX-101.DEF’

On:  Monday, 4/30/18, at 4:17pm ET   ·   For:  3/31/18   ·   Accession #:  899689-18-30   ·   File #s:  1-11954, 1-34482

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  As Of               Filer                 Filing    For·On·As Docs:Size

 4/30/18  Vornado Realty Trust              10-Q        3/31/18  102:12M
          Vornado Realty LP

Quarterly Report   —   Form 10-Q   —   Sect. 13 / 15(d) – SEA’34
Filing Table of Contents

Document/Exhibit                   Description                      Pages   Size 

 1: 10-Q        Quarterly Report                                    HTML   1.23M 
 2: EX-10.35    Material Contract                                   HTML    168K 
 3: EX-15.1     Letter re: Unaudited Interim Financial Info         HTML     32K 
 4: EX-15.2     Letter re: Unaudited Interim Financial Info         HTML     28K 
 5: EX-31.1     Certification -- §302 - SOA'02                      HTML     34K 
 6: EX-31.2     Certification -- §302 - SOA'02                      HTML     34K 
 7: EX-31.3     Certification -- §302 - SOA'02                      HTML     34K 
 8: EX-31.4     Certification -- §302 - SOA'02                      HTML     34K 
 9: EX-32.1     Certification -- §906 - SOA'02                      HTML     29K 
10: EX-32.2     Certification -- §906 - SOA'02                      HTML     29K 
11: EX-32.3     Certification -- §906 - SOA'02                      HTML     30K 
12: EX-32.4     Certification -- §906 - SOA'02                      HTML     30K 
19: R1          Document and Entity Information                     HTML     51K 
20: R2          Consolidated Balance Sheets (Unaudited)             HTML    176K 
21: R3          Consolidated Balance Sheets (Parentheticals)        HTML     69K 
22: R4          Consolidated Statements of Income (Unaudited)       HTML    170K 
23: R5          Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income     HTML     53K 
                (Unaudited)                                                      
24: R6          Consolidated Statements of Changes in Equity        HTML    184K 
                (Unaudited)                                                      
25: R7          Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows (Unaudited)   HTML    192K 
26: R8          Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows (Unaudited)   HTML     29K 
                (Parentheticals)                                                 
27: R9          Organization                                        HTML     30K 
28: R10         Basis of Presentation                               HTML     33K 
29: R11         Recently Issued Accounting Literature               HTML     43K 
30: R12         Revenue Recognition (Notes)                         HTML    100K 
31: R13         Acquisition                                         HTML     30K 
32: R14         Real Estate Fund Investments                        HTML     56K 
33: R15         Marketable Securities                               HTML     44K 
34: R16         Investments in Partially Owned Entities             HTML    117K 
35: R17         Dispositions                                        HTML     61K 
36: R18         Identified Intangible Assets and Liabilities        HTML     69K 
37: R19         Debt                                                HTML     68K 
38: R20         Redeemable Noncontrolling Interests / Redeemable    HTML     46K 
                Partnership Units                                                
39: R21         Shareholders' Equity/Partners' Capital              HTML     30K 
40: R22         Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income ("Aoci")     HTML     90K 
41: R23         Variable Interest Entities ("VIEs")                 HTML     34K 
42: R24         Fair Value Measurements                             HTML    163K 
43: R25         Stock-based Compensation                            HTML     44K 
44: R26         Interest and Other Investment (Loss) Income, Net    HTML     40K 
45: R27         Interest and Debt Expense                           HTML     37K 
46: R28         (Loss) Income Per Share / (Loss) Income Per Class   HTML    116K 
                A Unit                                                           
47: R29         Commitments and Contingencies                       HTML     42K 
48: R30         Segment Information                                 HTML    102K 
49: R31         Recently Issued Accounting Literature (Policies)    HTML     80K 
50: R32         Revenue Recognition (Tables)                        HTML     90K 
51: R33         Real Estate Fund Investments (Tables)               HTML     47K 
52: R34         Marketable Securities (Tables)                      HTML     42K 
53: R35         Investments in Partially Owned Entities (Tables)    HTML    100K 
54: R36         Dispositions (Tables)                               HTML     65K 
55: R37         Identified Intangible Assets and Liabilities        HTML     75K 
                (Tables)                                                         
56: R38         Debt (Tables)                                       HTML     69K 
57: R39         Redeemable Noncontrolling Interests / Redeemable    HTML     42K 
                Partnership Units (Tables)                                       
58: R40         Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income ("Aoci")     HTML     90K 
                (Tables)                                                         
59: R41         Fair Value Measurements (Tables)                    HTML    164K 
60: R42         Interest and Other Investment Income, Net (Tables)  HTML     38K 
61: R43         Interest and Debt Expense (Tables)                  HTML     37K 
62: R44         (Loss) Income Per Share / (Loss) Income Per Class   HTML    116K 
                A Unit (Tables)                                                  
63: R45         Segment Information (Tables)                        HTML    102K 
64: R46         Organization (Narrative) (Details)                  HTML     29K 
65: R47         Basis of Presentation (Narratives) (Details)        HTML     31K 
66: R48         Recently Issued Accounting Literature (Narrative)   HTML     48K 
                (Details)                                                        
67: R49         Revenue Recognition (Details)                       HTML     74K 
68: R50         Acquisition (Details)                               HTML     34K 
69: R51         Real Estate Fund Investments (Narrative) (Details)  HTML     90K 
70: R52         Real Estate Fund Investments (Income from the Fund  HTML     56K 
                and the Co-Investment) (Details)                                 
71: R53         Marketable Securities (Narrative) (Details)         HTML     33K 
72: R54         Marketable Securities (Marketable securities        HTML     39K 
                portfolio) (Details)                                             
73: R55         Investments in Partially Owned Entities             HTML     51K 
                (Alexander's Inc.) (Details)                                     
74: R56         Investments in Partially Owned Entities (Urban      HTML     48K 
                Edge Properties and PREIT) (Details)                             
75: R57         Investments in Partially Owned Entities             HTML     52K 
                (Independence Plaza and Toys R Us) (Details)                     
76: R58         Investments in Partially Owned Entities (Summary    HTML     54K 
                of Investments) (Details)                                        
77: R59         Investments in Partially Owned Entities (Summary    HTML     56K 
                of Income (Loss) ) (Details)                                     
78: R60         Dispositions (Assets and liabilities related to     HTML     69K 
                dispositions) (Details)                                          
79: R61         Identified Intangible Assets and Liabilities        HTML     67K 
                (Details)                                                        
80: R62         Debt (Narrative) (Details)                          HTML     52K 
81: R63         Debt (Summary of Debt) (Details)                    HTML     67K 
82: R64         Redeemable Noncontrolling Interests / Redeemable    HTML     48K 
                Partnership Units (Activity of Redeemable                        
                Noncontrolling Interests) (Details)                              
83: R65         Redeemable Noncontrolling Interests / Redeemable    HTML     38K 
                Partnership Units (Narratives) (Details)                         
84: R66         Shareholders' Equity/Partners' Capital - Narrative  HTML     45K 
                (Details)                                                        
85: R67         Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income ("Aoci")     HTML     63K 
                (AOCI by component) (Details)                                    
86: R68         Variable Interest Entities ("VIEs") (Details)       HTML     38K 
87: R69         Fair Value Measurements (Narrative) (Details)       HTML     59K 
88: R70         Fair Value Measurements (Financial Assets and       HTML     67K 
                Liabilities Measured at Fair Value on a Recurring                
                Basis) (Details)                                                 
89: R71         Fair Value Measurements (Unobervable Quantitative   HTML     41K 
                Input Ratios) (Details)                                          
90: R72         Fair Value Measurements (Changes in the Fair Value  HTML     49K 
                of Real Estate Fund Investments and Deferred                     
                Compensation Plan Assets) (Details)                              
91: R73         Fair Value Measurements (Carrying amounts and fair  HTML     68K 
                value of financial instruments) (Details)                        
92: R74         Stock-based Compensation (Narrative) (Details)      HTML     93K 
93: R75         Interest and Other Investment Income, Net           HTML     39K 
                (Details)                                                        
94: R76         Interest and Debt Expense (Details)                 HTML     36K 
95: R77         (Loss) Income Per Share / (Loss) Income Per Class   HTML    118K 
                A Unit (Details)                                                 
96: R78         Income Per Share / Income Per Class A Unit          HTML     32K 
                (Narrative) (Details)                                            
97: R79         Commitments and Contingencies (Details)             HTML     64K 
98: R80         Segment Information (Summary of net income and      HTML     66K 
                EBITDA reconciliation by segment) (Details)                      
99: R81         Segment Information - Summary of NOI by Segment     HTML     52K 
                (Details)                                                        
101: XML         IDEA XML File -- Filing Summary                      XML    179K  
100: EXCEL       IDEA Workbook of Financial Reports                  XLSX    108K  
13: EX-101.INS  XBRL Instance -- vno-20180331                        XML   3.25M 
15: EX-101.CAL  XBRL Calculations -- vno-20180331_cal                XML    318K 
16: EX-101.DEF  XBRL Definitions -- vno-20180331_def                 XML   1.22M 
17: EX-101.LAB  XBRL Labels -- vno-20180331_lab                      XML   2.15M 
18: EX-101.PRE  XBRL Presentations -- vno-20180331_pre               XML   1.39M 
14: EX-101.SCH  XBRL Schema -- vno-20180331                          XSD    254K 
102: ZIP         XBRL Zipped Folder -- 0000899689-18-000030-xbrl      Zip    333K

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