NOTE 1 – BASIS OF PRESENTATION

General Business Plan

Trinity Place Holdings Inc. (“Trinity,” “we”, “our”, or “us”) is a real estate holding, investment and asset management company. Our business is primarily to own, invest in, manage, develop or redevelop real estate assets and/or real estate related securities. Currently, our largest asset is a property located at 77 Greenwich Street (“77 Greenwich”) in Lower Manhattan. 77 Greenwich is a vacant building that is being demolished and under development as a residential condominium tower that also includes plans for retail and a New York City elementary school. We also own a retail strip center located in West Palm Beach, Florida, former retail properties in Westbury, New York and Paramus, New Jersey, and, through a joint venture, a 50% interest in a newly constructed 95-unit multi-family property, known as The Berkley, located in Brooklyn, New York. In addition, we control a variety of intellectual property assets focused on the consumer sector, including our on-line marketplace at FilenesBasement.com launched in September 2015, and we had approximately $230.2 million of federal net operating losses (“NOLs”) at December 31, 2016.

Trinity is the successor to Syms Corp. (“Syms”), which also owned Filene’s Basement. Syms and its subsidiaries filed for relief under the United States Bankruptcy Code in 2011. In September 2012, the Syms Plan of Reorganization became effective and Syms and its subsidiaries consummated their reorganization under Chapter 11 through a series of transactions contemplated by the Plan and emerged from bankruptcy. As part of those transactions, reorganized Syms merged with and into Trinity, with Trinity as the surviving corporation and successor issuer pursuant to Rule 12g-3 under the Exchange Act.

On or about March 8, 2016, a General Unsecured Claim Satisfaction occurred under the Plan. On March 14, 2016, we made the final Majority Shareholder payment (as defined in the Plan) to the former Majority Shareholder in the amount of approximately $6.9 million. Together these satisfied our remaining payment and reserve obligations under the Plan. Also, in connection with these events and pursuant to the terms of our Certificate of Incorporation, the board terms of certain of our directors automatically terminated, following which the Board reappointed those directors, and shares of preferred stock issued in connection with the Plan, which conveyed certain governance rights in favor of creditors under the Plan, were automatically redeemed, resulting in the extinguishment of the governance and other rights associated with the shares of preferred stock.

We have also explored and continue to explore monetizing our intellectual property assets, including our rights to the Stanley Blacker® brand, and the intellectual property associated with the Running of the Brides® event and An Educated Consumer is Our Best Customer® slogan. In September 2015, we launched our on-line marketplace at FilenesBasement.com.

Change in Basis of Accounting

In response to the Chapter 11 filing, we adopted the liquidation basis of accounting effective October 30, 2011. Under the liquidation basis of accounting, assets are stated at their net realizable value, liabilities are stated at their net settlement amount and estimated costs over the period of liquidation are accrued to the extent reasonably determinable. Effective February 9, 2015, the closing date of the 77 Greenwich loan transaction described in Note 10 - Loans Payable, we ceased reporting on the liquidation basis of accounting in light of our available cash resources, the estimated range of outstanding payments on unresolved claims, and our ability to operate as a going concern. We resumed reporting on the going concern basis of accounting on February 10, 2015 which resulted in all remaining assets and liabilities at that date being adjusted to their historic carrying values reduced by depreciation and/or amortization calculated from the date we entered liquidation through the date we emerged from liquidation. Accordingly, this change in accounting basis resulted in a decrease in the reporting basis of the respective assets and liabilities.