UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

FORM 8-K/A

Amendment No. 1
 
to
 
CURRENT REPORT
PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE
SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): September 9, 2014 (September 5, 2014)
 

American Realty Capital New York City REIT, Inc.
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)
 
Maryland
 
333-194135
 
46-4380248
(State or other jurisdiction
of incorporation or organization)
 
(Commission File Number)
 
(I.R.S. Employer
Identification No.)
 
405 Park Avenue, 15th Floor
New York, New York 10022
(Address, including zip code, of Principal Executive Offices)
Registrant's telephone number, including area code: (212) 415-6500

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:

o
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o
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o
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Explanatory Note
American Realty Capital New York City REIT, Inc. (the "Company") previously filed a Current Report on Form 8-K on September 9, 2014 (the “Original Form 8-K”) reporting its acquisition of three commercial condominium units located at 400 East 67th Street in the Upper East Side neighborhood of Manhattan, New York (the "400 E. 67th Street Unit").  This Amended Current Report on Form 8-K/A is being filed for the purposes of amending the Original Form 8-K to provide (i) the financial information related to such acquisition required by Item 9.01 and (ii) certain additional information with respect to such acquisition. No other changes have been made to the Original Form 8-K.
Item 2.01. Completion of Acquisition or Disposition of Assets.
The following two paragraphs are added to the end of the disclosure under Item 2.01 of the Original Form 8-K.
 In evaluating the 400 E. 67th Street Unit as a potential acquisition and determining the appropriate amount of consideration to be paid, the Company has considered a variety of factors including: location; demographics; credit quality of the tenants; duration of the in-place leases; strong occupancy and the fact that the overall rental rates are comparable to market rates; expenses; utility rates; ad valorem tax rates; maintenance expenses; the level of competition in the rental market; and the lack of required capital improvements.
 The Company believes that the 400 E. 67th Street Unit is well located, has acceptable roadway access and is well maintained. The 400 E. 67th Street Unit is subject to competition from similar properties within its respective market area, and the economic performance of the tenants in the 400 E. 67th Street Unit could be affected by changes in local economic conditions. The Company did not consider any other factors material or relevant to the decision to acquire the 400 E. 67th Street Unit, nor, after reasonable inquiry, is the Company aware of any material factors other than those discussed above that would cause the reported financial information not to be necessarily indicative of future operating results.
Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits.

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Report of Independent Certified Public Accountants


Stockholders and Board of Directors
American Realty Capital New York City REIT, Inc.
We have audited the accompanying Historical Summary of three commercial condominium units located at 400 East 67th Street in the Upper East Side neighborhood of Manhattan, New York (the “400 E. 67th Street Unit”) which comprise the statement of revenues and certain expenses for the year ended December 31, 2013, and the related notes to the Historical Summary.

Management's responsibility for the financial statement
Management of American Realty Capital New York City REIT, Inc. is responsible for the preparation and fair presentation of the Historical Summary in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America; this includes the design, implementation, and maintenance of internal control relevant to the preparation and fair presentation of the Historical Summary that is free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.

Auditor's responsibility
Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Historical Summary based on our audit. We conducted our audit in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted in the United States of America. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the Historical Summary is free from material misstatement.

An audit involves performing procedures to obtain audit evidence about the amounts and disclosures in the Historical Summary. The procedures selected depend on the auditor's judgment, including the assessment of the risks of material misstatement of the Historical Summary, whether due to fraud or error. In making those risk assessments, the auditor considers internal control relevant to the entity's preparation and fair presentation of the Historical Summary in order to design audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the entity's internal control. Accordingly, we express no such opinion. An audit also includes evaluating the appropriateness of accounting policies used and the reasonableness of significant accounting estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the Historical Summary.

We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our audit opinion.

Opinion
In our opinion, the Historical Summary referred to above presents fairly, in all material respects, the revenues and certain expenses of 400 E. 67th Street Unit for the year ended December 31, 2013 in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.

Emphasis of Matter
The accompanying Historical Summary was prepared for the purpose of complying with rules and regulations of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and for inclusion in a Form 8-K/A of American Realty Capital New York City REIT, Inc., as described in Note 1 to the Historical Summary, and is not intended to be a complete presentation of the 400 E. 67th Street Unit's revenues and expenses.

/s/ GRANT THORNTON LLP

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
October 20, 2014

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400 E. 67TH STREET UNIT
  
STATEMENTS OF REVENUES AND CERTAIN EXPENSES
(In thousands)



 
Six Months Ended
 
Year Ended
 
June 30, 2014
 
December 31, 2013
 
(Unaudited)
 
 
Revenues: 
 
 
 
Rental income
$
2,092

 
$
4,184

Operating expense reimbursements 
107

 
168

Total revenues
2,199

 
4,352

 
 

 
 

Certain expenses:
 

 
 

Property operating
73

 
142

Real estate taxes
89

 
97

Insurance
10

 
8

Total certain expenses
172

 
247

Revenues in excess of certain expenses
$
2,027

 
$
4,105

 The accompanying notes are an integral part of these Statements of Revenues and Certain Expenses.

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400 E. 67TH STREET UNIT
 
NOTES TO STATEMENTS OF REVENUES AND CERTAIN EXPENSES
(References to amounts as of and for the six months ended June 30, 2014 are unaudited)



1. Background and Basis of Presentation
The accompanying Statements of Revenues and Certain Expenses (“Historical Summary”) include the operations of three commercial condominium units located at 400 East 67th Street in the Upper East Side neighborhood of Manhattan, New York (the “400 E. 67th Street Unit”) for the year ended December 31, 2013 and the six months ended June 30, 2014. American Realty Capital New York City REIT, Inc. (the “Company”) completed its acquisition of the 400 E. 67th Street Unit from an unaffiliated third party on September 5, 2014, for $76.0 million. The 400 E. 67th Street Unit contains 58,750 rentable square feet and consists of an office space, a retail space and a parking garage.
The accompanying Historical Summary has been prepared for the purpose of complying with the provisions of Rule 3-14 of Regulation S-X promulgated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), which requires that certain information with respect to real estate operations be included with certain SEC filings. An audited statement of revenues and certain expenses is being presented for the most recent fiscal year available instead of the three most recent years based on the following factors:  (a) the 400 E. 67th Street Unit was not acquired from a related party and (b) based on due diligence of the 400 E. 67th Street Unit by the Company, management is not aware of any material factors relating to the 400 E. 67th Street Unit that would cause this financial information not to be indicative of future operating results.
2.  Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
Revenue Recognition
Under the terms of the leases, the tenants pay monthly rent reimbursements to the property's owner for certain expenses. Reimbursements from the tenants are recognized as revenue in the period the applicable expenses are incurred. Rental income includes the effect of amortizing the aggregate minimum lease payments over the terms of the leases, which amounted to an increase to rental income of $0.3 million and $0.6 million over the rent payments received in cash for the six months ended June 30, 2014 and the year ended December 31, 2013, respectively.
The following table lists the tenants whose annualized rental income on a straight-line basis represented greater than 10% of total annualized rental income for all tenants on a straight-line basis.
Tenant
 
June 30, 2014
 
December 31, 2013
Cornell University
 
56.6%
 
56.6%
TD Bank, N.A.
 
23.7%
 
23.7%
Quik Park
 
19.7%
 
19.7%

The termination, delinquency or non-renewal of one of the above tenants may have a material adverse effect on revenues. No other tenant represents more than 10% of annualized rental income as of June 30, 2014 and December 31, 2013.
Use of Estimates
The preparation of the Historical Summary in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America requires management to make estimates and assumptions of the reported amounts of revenues and certain expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates used in the preparation of the Historical Summary.
3. Future Minimum Lease Payments
At June 30, 2014, the 400 E. 67th Street Unit was 100% leased under non-cancelable operating leases with a remaining lease term of 9.8 years on a weighted average basis. Future minimum lease payments are as follows (in thousands):
 
 
Future Minimum Lease Payments
July 1, 2014 to December 31, 2014
 
$
1,985

2015
 
3,972

2016
 
4,017

2017
 
4,080

2018
 
4,130

2019 and thereafter
 
24,477

Total
 
$
42,661


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4. Subsequent Events
The Company has evaluated subsequent events through October 20, 2014, the date which this Historical Summary has been issued and has determined that there have not been any events that have occurred that would require adjustments to the disclosures in the Historical Summary.

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AMERICAN REALTY CAPITAL NEW YORK CITY REIT, INC.
  
UNAUDITED PRO FORMA CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEET
AS OF JUNE 30, 2014
(In thousands)


The following Unaudited Pro Forma Consolidated Balance Sheet is presented as if American Realty Capital New York City REIT, Inc. (the “Company”) had acquired the 400 E. 67th Street Unit as of June 30, 2014. This financial statement should be read in conjunction with the Unaudited Pro Forma Consolidated Statements of Operations and the Company's historical financial statements and notes thereto in the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2014. The Pro Forma Consolidated Balance Sheet is unaudited and is not necessarily indicative of what the actual financial position would have been had the Company acquired the 400 E. 67th Street Unit as of June 30, 2014, nor does it purport to present the future financial position of the Company.
 
American Realty Capital New York City REIT, Inc.(1)
 
400 E. 67th Street Unit (2)
 
Pro Forma American Realty Capital New York City REIT, Inc.
Assets
 
 
 
 
 
Real estate investments, at cost:
 
 
 
 
 
Buildings, fixtures and improvements
$
7,184

 
$
71,943

 
$
79,127

Acquired intangible lease assets
1,020

 
4,057

 
5,077

Total real estate investments, at cost
8,204

 
76,000

 
84,204

Less: accumulated depreciation and amortization
(43
)
 

 
(43
)
Total real estate investments, net
8,161

 
76,000

 
84,161

Cash and cash equivalents
51,161

 

 
51,161

Receivables for sale of common stock
9,430

 

 
9,430

Prepaid expenses and other assets
271

 
64

 
335

Total assets
$
69,023

 
$
76,064

 
$
145,087

 
 
 
 
 
 
Liabilities and Stockholders' Equity
 
 
 
 
 
Accounts payable and accrued expenses
$
2,394

 
$

 
$
2,394

Below market lease liabilities, net
942

 

 
942

Deferred revenue

 
215

 
215

Distributions payable
186

 

 
186

Total liabilities
3,522

 
215

 
3,737

Common stock
30

 
1

 
31

Additional paid-in capital
65,887

 
77,242

 
143,129

Accumulated deficit
(416
)
 
(1,394
)
 
(1,810
)
Total stockholders' equity
65,501

 
75,849

 
141,350

Total liabilities and stockholders' equity
$
69,023

 
$
76,064

 
$
145,087


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AMERICAN REALTY CAPITAL NEW YORK CITY REIT, INC.

NOTES TO UNAUDITED PRO FORMA CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEET


Unaudited Pro Forma Consolidated Balance Sheet as of June 30, 2014:
(1) Reflects the Company's historical unaudited Balance Sheet as of June 30, 2014, as previously filed.
(2) Reflects the acquisition of the 400 E. 67th Street Unit. The purchase price, excluding related expenses, was $76.0 million.
The Company allocates the purchase price of acquired properties to tangible and identifiable intangible assets acquired based on their respective fair values. Tangible assets include land, land improvements, buildings, fixtures and tenant improvements on an as-if vacant basis. The Company utilizes various estimates, processes and information to determine the as-if vacant property value. Estimates of value are made using customary methods, including data from appraisals, comparable sales, discounted cash flow analysis and other methods. Identifiable intangible assets include amounts allocated to acquire leases for above- and below-market lease rates and the value of in-place leases. Depreciation is computed using the straight-line method over the estimated lives of 40 years for buildings, 15 years for land improvements, five years for fixtures and the shorter of the useful life or the remaining lease term for tenant improvements.
The aggregate value of intangible assets related to in-place leases is primarily the difference between the property valued with existing in-place leases adjusted to market rental rates and the property valued as if vacant. Factors considered in the analysis of the in-place lease intangibles include an estimate of carrying costs during the expected lease-up period for each property, taking into account current market conditions and costs to execute similar leases. In estimating carrying costs, the Company includes real estate taxes, insurance and other operating expenses and estimates of lost rentals at market rates during the expected lease-up period, which is estimated to be six months. Estimates of costs to execute similar leases including leasing commissions, legal and other related expenses are also utilized. The value of in-place leases is amortized to expense over the initial term of the respective lease, which ranges from seven to 11 years. If a tenant terminates its lease, the unamortized portion of the in-place lease value and intangible is charged to expense.
Above-market and below-market in-place lease values are recorded based on the present value (using an interest rate which reflects the risks associated with the leases acquired) of the difference between the contractual amounts to be paid pursuant to the in-place leases and management's estimate of fair market lease rates for the corresponding in-place leases, measured over a period equal to the remaining non-cancelable term of the lease. The capitalized above-market lease intangibles are amortized as a decrease to rental income over the remaining term of the lease.  The capitalized below-market lease values will be amortized as an increase to rental income over the remaining term and any fixed rate renewal periods provided within the respective leases. In determining the amortization period for below-market lease intangibles, the Company initially will consider, and periodically evaluate, the likelihood that a lessee will execute the renewal option.  The likelihood that a lessee will execute the renewal option is determined by taking into consideration the tenant's payment history, the financial condition of the tenant, business conditions in the industry in which the tenant operates and economic conditions in the area in which the property is located.
In making estimates of fair values for purposes of allocating purchase price, the Company utilizes a number of sources, including independent appraisals that may be obtained in connection with the acquisition or financing of the respective property and other market data. The Company also considers information obtained about each property as a result of pre-acquisition due diligence, as well as subsequent marketing and leasing activities, in estimating the fair value of the tangible and intangible assets acquired and intangible liabilities assumed. The allocations presented in the accompanying Unaudited Pro Forma Consolidated Balance Sheet will be finalized once additional information is received. Accordingly, these allocations are subject to revision when final information is available, although the Company does not expect future revisions to have a significant impact on its financial position or results of operations.

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AMERICAN REALTY CAPITAL NEW YORK CITY REIT, INC.
 
UNAUDITED PRO FORMA CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2013 AND THE SIX MONTHS ENDED JUNE 30, 2014


Unaudited Pro Forma Consolidated Statements of Operations for the year ended December 31, 2013 and the six months ended June 30, 2014, are presented as if American Realty Capital New York City REIT, Inc. (the “Company”) had acquired the 400 E. 67th Street Unit as of the beginning of each period presented. These financial statements should be read in conjunction with the Unaudited Pro Forma Consolidated Balance Sheet and the Company's historical financial statements and notes thereto included in the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2014. The Pro Forma Consolidated Statements of Operations are unaudited and are not necessarily indicative of what the actual results of operations would have been had the Company acquired the 400 E. 67th Street Unit as of the beginning of each period presented, nor does it purport to present the future results of operations of the Company.
Unaudited Pro Forma Consolidated Statement of Operations for the year ended December 31, 2013 (in thousands):
 
American Realty Capital New York City REIT, Inc. (1)
 
400 E. 67th Street Unit (2)
 
Pro Forma Adjustments 400 E. 67th Street Unit
 
Pro Forma American Realty Capital New York City REIT, Inc.
Revenues:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  Rental income
$

 
$
4,184

 
$
73

(3) 
$
4,257

  Operating expense reimbursement

 
168

 

 
168

Total revenues

 
4,352

 
73

 
4,425

Operating expenses:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Property operating

 
247

 
47

 
294

Acquisition and transaction related

 

 

 

General and administrative

 

 

 

Depreciation and amortization

 

 
4,175

(4) 
4,175

Total expenses

 
247

 
4,222

 
4,469

Net income (loss)
$

 
$
4,105

 
$
(4,149
)
 
$
(44
)

Unaudited Pro Forma Consolidated Statement of Operations for the six months ended June 30, 2014 (in thousands):
 
American Realty Capital New York City REIT, Inc. (1)
 
400 E. 67th Street Unit (2)
 
Pro Forma Adjustments 400 E. 67th Street Unit
 
Pro Forma American Realty Capital New York City REIT, Inc.
Revenues:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  Rental income
$
43

 
$
2,092

 
$
37

(3) 
$
2,172

  Operating expense reimbursement

 
107

 

 
107

Total revenues
43

 
2,199

 
37

 
2,279

Operating expenses:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Property operating
10

 
172

 
23

 
205

Acquisition and transaction related
142

 

 

 
142

General and administrative
78

 

 

 
78

Depreciation and amortization
43

 

 
2,087

(4) 
2,130

Total expenses
273

 
172

 
2,110

 
2,555

Net income (loss)
$
(230
)
 
$
2,027

 
$
(2,073
)
 
$
(276
)


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AMERICAN REALTY CAPITAL NEW YORK CITY REIT, INC.

NOTES TO UNAUDITED PRO FORMA CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS


Unaudited Pro Forma Consolidated Statements of Operations for the year ended December 31, 2013 and the six months ended June 30, 2014:
(1) Reflects the Company's historical operations for the period indicated, as previously filed.
(2) Reflects the operations of the 400 E. 67th Street Unit for the period indicated.
(3) Represents adjustments to straight-line rent for lease terms as of the acquisition date.
(4) Represents the estimated depreciation and amortization of real estate investments and intangible lease assets had the property been acquired as of the beginning of the period presented.  Depreciation is computed using the straight-line method over the estimated lives of 40 years for buildings, 15 years for land improvements and five years for fixtures.  The value of in-place leases is amortized to expense over the initial terms of the respective leases, which range from seven to 11 years. The value of tenant improvements is amortized over the shorter of the useful life or the remaining lease term.




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SIGNATURES


Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
 
 
AMERICAN REALTY CAPITAL NEW YORK CITY REIT, INC.
 
 
 
Date: October 20, 2014
By:  
/s/ Gregory W. Sullivan
 
Gregory W. Sullivan
 
Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer


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