Gyrodyne Receives Payment of $167.5 Million in Condemnation Litigation

Gyrodyne Company of America, Inc. GYRO announced today that on July 3, 2012 it received $167,501,656.95 from the State of New York (the "State") in payment of the judgments in Gyrodyne's favor in the condemnation litigation with the State. The amount received consists of $98,685,000 in additional damages, $1,474,940.67 in costs, disbursements and expenses, and $67,341,716.28 in interest. The $167.5 million payment brings to a successful resolution Gyrodyne's case for just compensation, commenced in 2006 for the 245.5 acres of its Flowerfield property in St. James and Stony Brook, New York (the "Property") taken by the State. The State had paid Gyrodyne $26,315,000 for the Property at the time of the taking, which Gyrodyne elected, under New York's eminent domain law, to treat as an advance payment while it pursued its claim for just compensation. The Court of Claims ruled in Gyrodyne's favor in June 2010 when it awarded the Company $125,000,000, thereby requiring the State to pay an additional $98,685,000 plus statutory interest of nine percent from the date of taking on November 2, 2005 to the date of payment. That judgment, as well as a related judgment for costs, disbursements and expenses, was affirmed by the Appellate Division and the Court of Appeals.