SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C FORM S-8 REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

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1 As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on July 1, 1996 Registration No SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C FORM S-8 REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933 ALEXANDER'S, INC. (Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter) Delaware (State or other jurisdiction of (I.R.S. Employer incorporation or organization) Identification Number) Park 80 West, Plaza II Saddle Brook, New Jersey (Address of Principal Executive Offices) Alexander's, Inc. Omnibus Stock Plan (Full title of the plan) Joseph Macnow Chief Financial Officer Alexander's, Inc. Park 80 West, Plaza II Saddle Brook, New Jersey (Name and address of agent for service) (201) (Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service) Copies to: Douglas P. Bartner, Esq. Shearman & Sterling 599 Lexington Avenue New York, New York CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE =========================================================================================================================== Title of Amount Proposed Maximum Proposed Maximum Amount of Securities to be to be Offering Price Per Aggregate Registration Registered Registered Share (*) Offering Price (*) Fee Common Stock 350,000 $73.25 $25,637,500 $ par value $1.00 per share Shares =========================================================================================================================== (*) The price shown is the average of the high and low prices of the Common Stock on the New York Stock Exchange consolidated reporting system on June 25, 1996, in accordance with Rule 457(c), and is being utilized solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee.

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3 2 Part I INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS Item 1. Plan Information.* Item 2. Registrant Information and Employee Plan Annual Information.* * Information required by Part I to be contained in the Section 10(a) prospectus is omitted from this Registration Statement in accordance with Rule 428 under the Securities Act, and the "Note" to Part I of Form S-8.

4 Item 3. Incorporation of Documents by Reference. 3 Part II INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT The following documents are incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement: (a) the Registrant's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 1995; (b) the description of the Registrant's common stock, par value $1.00 per share, contained in the Registrant's Registration Statement on Form 10 (File No ) for registration of such common stock under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"); (c) the Registrant's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the three months ended March 31, 1996, filed on May 13, 1996; and (d) the Registrant's Current Report on Form 8-K filed January 3, All documents subsequently filed by the Registrant pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act, prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment which indicates that all securities offered have been sold or which deregisters all securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement and to be part thereof from the date of filing of such documents. Item 4. Description of Securities. Item 5. Interests of Named Experts and Counsel. Item 6. Indemnification of Directors and Officers. Not applicable. Not applicable. Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law empowers a corporation to indemnify its directors and officers or former directors and officers and to purchase insurance with respect to liability arising out of their capacity or status as directors and officers under certain circumstances. Such law provides further that the indemnification permitted thereunder shall not be deemed exclusive

5 of any other rights to which the directors and officers may be entitled under a corporation's Certificate of Incorporation, By-laws, agreements or otherwise. 4 The Registrant's Certificate of Incorporation provides that the Registrant's officers and directors will be indemnified to the fullest extent permitted by Delaware law. In addition, to the fullest extent permitted by Delaware law, no director of the Registrant shall be personally liable to the Registrant or the stockholders for monetary damages for breach of the director's fiduciary duty. Such provision does not limit a director's liability to the Registrant or its stockholders resulting from: (i) any breach of the director's duty of loyalty to the Registrant or its stockholders, (ii) acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law, (iii) unlawful payments of dividends or unlawful stock repurchases or redemptions as provided in section 174 of the Delaware General Corporation Law or (iv) any transaction from which the director derived an improper personal benefit. The Registrant's Certificate of Incorporation provides that the Registrant shall pay the expenses incurred by an officer or a director of the Registrant in defending a civil or criminal action, suit, or proceeding involving such person's acts or omissions as an officer or a director of the Registrant if such person acted in good faith and in a manner he or she reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Registrant or its stockholders and, with respect to a criminal action or proceeding, if the person had no reasonable cause to believe his or her conduct was unlawful. Unless ordered by a court, indemnification of an officer shall be made by the Registrant only as authorized in a specific case upon the determination that indemnification of the officer or director is proper under the circumstances because he or she has met the applicable standard of conduct. Such determination shall be made (i) by majority vote of the directors of the Registrant who are not parties to the action, suit or proceeding, (ii) by independent legal counsel in a written opinion, or (iii) by the stockholders of the Registrant. The Registrant's Certificate of Incorporation authorizes the Registrant to pay the expenses incurred by an officer or a director in defending a civil or criminal action, suit, or proceeding in advance of the final disposition thereof, upon receipt of an undertaking by or on behalf of such person to repay the expenses if it is ultimately determined that the person is not entitled to be indemnified by the Registrant. The Registrant has the power to purchase and maintain insurance on behalf of any person who is or was a director, officer, employee, or agent of the Registrant or is liable as a director of the Registrant, or is or was serving, at the request of the Registrant, as a director, officer, employee, or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, against any liability asserted against him and incurred by him in any such capacity or arising out of his status as such, regardless of whether the Registrant would have power to indemnify him against such liability. The Registrant has purchased a policy of directors' and officers' insurance that insures both the Registrant and its officers and directors against expenses and liabilities of the type normally insured against under such policies, including the expense of the indemnifications described above. Item 7. Exemption from Registration Claimed. Not applicable.

6 5 Item 8. Exhibits. Statement: The following exhibits are filed as part of this Registration 4.1 Alexander's, Inc. Omnibus Stock Plan. 4.2 Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Registrant (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Registrant's Registration Statement on Form S-3 (Reg. No )). 4.3 By-laws of the Registrant (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3(B) to the Registrant's Annual Report on Form 10-K filed July 27, 1991). 5 Opinion of Shearman & Sterling re legality of common stock being registered Consent of Deloitte & Touche LLP Consent of Shearman & Sterling (included in Exhibit 5). 24 Powers of Attorney (included on signature page). Item 9. Undertakings. (a) The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes: (1) To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement to include any material information with respect to the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in the Registration Statement or any material change to such information in the Registration Statement; (2) That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof; and (3) To remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of the offering. (b) The undersigned Registrant hereby further undertakes that, for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each filing of the Registrant's annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act that is incorporated by

7 6 reference in the Registration Statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof. (c) Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the Registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the Registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the Registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the Registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the Registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.

8 7 SIGNATURES Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Saddle Brook, State of New Jersey on the 1st day of July, ALEXANDER'S, INC. By: /s/ Joseph Macnow Name: Joseph Macnow Title: Vice President, Chief Financial Officer POWER OF ATTORNEY Each of the undersigned whose signature appears below hereby constitutes and appoints Steven Roth and Joseph Macnow, and each of them acting alone, his true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him and in his name, place and stead, in any and all capacities to sign any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments) and supplements to this Registration Statement and any and all related registration statements necessary to register additional securities, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorney-in-fact and agent full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact and agent, or his substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof. Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this Registration Statement has been signed below by the following persons in the indicated capacities on July 1, Signature Title /s/ Steven Roth Steven Roth Chief Executive Officer and Director (principal executive officer)

9 8 /s/ Joseph Macnow Joseph Macnow Vice President -- Chief Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer (principal financial officer and principal accounting officer) /s/ Thomas R. DiBenedetto Thomas R. DiBenedetto /s/ David Mandelbaum David Mandelbaum /s/ Stephen Mann Stephen Mann /s/ Arthur I. Sonnenblick Arthur I. Sonnenblick /s/ Neil Underberg Neil Underberg /s/ Richard R. West Richard R. West /s/ Russell B. Wight, Jr. Russell B. Wight, Jr. Director Director Chairman of the Board of Directors Director Director Director Director

10 9 Exhibit Index Exhibit No. Description of Document 4.1 Alexander's, Inc. Omnibus Stock Plan. 4.2 Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Registrant (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Registrant's Registration Statement on Form S-3 (Reg. No )). 4.3 By-laws of the Registrant (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3(B) to the Registrant's Annual Report on Form 10-K, filed July 27, 1991). 5 Opinion of Shearman & Sterling re legality of common stock being registered Consent of Deloitte & Touche LLP Consent of Shearman & Sterling (included in Exhibit 5). 24 Powers of Attorney (included on signature page).

11 ALEXANDER'S, INC. OMNIBUS STOCK PLAN (as amended through May 22, 1996) 1. PURPOSE. The purpose of the Alexander's, Inc. Omnibus Stock Plan (the "Plan") is to promote the financial interests of Alexander's, Inc. (the "Company"), including its growth and performance, by encouraging employees and officers of the Company and its subsidiaries, employees of Vornado Realty Trust ("Vornado") and its subsidiaries or any other person or entity designated by the Committee (as defined below) (collectively "Eligible Persons") to acquire an ownership interest in the Company, enhancing the ability of Company and its subsidiaries to attract and retain people or entities of outstanding ability, and providing such persons with a way to acquire or increase their proprietary interest in the Company's success. 2. SHARES SUBJECT TO THE PLAN. Subject to adjustment as provided in Section 14, the number of shares of Common Stock, par value $1.00 per share, of the Company (the "Shares") which shall be available for the grant of awards under the Plan shall not exceed 700,000. No Participant (as defined in Section 3) shall be granted stock options or stock appreciation rights with respect to more than 350,000 Shares in any Plan year, subject to adjustment as provided in Article 14. The Shares issued under the Plan may be authorized and unissued Shares or treasury Shares, as the Company may from time to time determine. Shares subject to an award that expires unexercised, that is forfeited, terminated or cancelled, in whole or in part, or is paid in cash in lieu of Shares, shall thereafter again be available for grant under the Plan. 3. ADMINISTRATION. The Plan shall be administered by a committee to be selected by the Board of Directors of the Company, from time to time (the "Committee"), which shall be comprised of no fewer than two members of the Board. Each member shall be a member of the Board who is "disinterested" within the meaning of Rule 16b-3 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the "Exchange Act"). A majority of the Committee shall constitute a quorum, and the acts of a majority shall be the acts of the Committee. Subject to the provisions of the Plan, the Committee (i) shall select the Eligible Persons who will be participants in the Plan (the "Participants"), determine the type of awards to be made to Participants, determine the Shares or share units subject to awards, and (ii) shall have the authority to interpret the Plan, to establish, amend, and rescind any rules and regulations relating to the Plan, to determine the terms and provisions of any agreements entered into hereunder and to make all determinations necessary or advisable for the administration of the Plan. The Committee may correct any defect, supply any omission or reconcile any inconsistency in the Plan or in any award in the manner and to the extent it shall deem desirable to carry it into effect. The determinations of the Committee in the administration of the Plan, as described herein, shall be final and conclusive. 4. ELIGIBILITY. All Eligible Persons who have demonstrated significant management potential or who have the capacity for contributing in a substantial measure to the successful performance of the Company, as determined by the Committee, are eligible to be Participants in the Plan. 5. AWARDS. Awards granted under the Plan may consist of either incentive stock options within the meaning of Section 422 of the Internal Revenue Code or non-qualified stock options, provided that only Eligible Persons who are employees of the Company or its subsidiaries may receive incentive stock options; stock appreciation rights, performance shares or grants of restricted stock. Awards of performance shares and restricted stock may provide the Participant with dividends and voting rights prior to vesting (whether based on a period of time or based on attainment of specified performance conditions). 6. STOCK OPTIONS. The Committee shall establish the option price at the time each stock option is granted, which price shall not be less than 100% of the fair market value of the Shares on the date of grant; provided, that for incentive stock options granted to persons owning more than 10% of the outstanding shares of Common Stock, the option price shall not be less than 110% of the fair market value per share at the date of grant. Stock options shall be exercisable for such period as specified by the Committee, but in no event may

12 options be exercisable more than ten years after their date of grant (five years in the case of an incentive stock option granted to a ten percent stockholder). The option price of each Share as to which a stock option is exercised shall be paid in full at the time of such exercise. Such payment shall be made in cash, by tender of unrestricted Shares owned by the Participant valued at fair market value as of the date of exercise, in such other consideration as the Committee deems appropriate, or by a combination of cash, unrestricted Shares and such other consideration. If determined by the Committee at or subsequent to the date of grant of a stock option, in the event a Participant pays the exercise price of such stock option (in whole or in part) by tendering Shares owned by the Participant, such Participant shall automatically be granted a reload stock option for the number of Shares used to pay the exercise price. The reload stock option shall have terms and conditions determined by the Committee consistent with this Section. If a reload stock option is granted as set forth above, one or more successive reload stock options shall automatically be granted, unless otherwise determined by the Committee, to a Participant who pays all or part of the exercise price of any such reload stock option by tendering Shares owned by the Participant. 7. STOCK APPRECIATION RIGHTS. Stock appreciation rights may be granted in tandem with a stock option, in addition to a stock option, or may be freestanding and unrelated to a stock option. Stock appreciation rights granted in tandem with or in addition to a stock option may be granted either at the same time as the stock option or at a later time. No stock appreciation right shall be exercisable earlier than six months after grant, except in the event of the Participant's death or disability. A stock appreciation right shall entitle the Participant to receive from the Company an amount equal to the increase of the fair market value of the Share on the exercise of the stock appreciation right over the grant price. The Committee, in its sole discretion, shall determine whether the stock appreciation right shall be settled in cash, Shares or a combination of cash and Shares. 8. PERFORMANCE SHARES. Performance shares may be granted in the form of actual Shares or share units having a value equal to an identical number of Shares. In the event that a certificate is issued in respect of Shares subject to a grant of performance shares, such certificate shall be registered in the name of the Participant but shall be held by the Company until the time the Shares subject to the grant of performance shares are earned. The performance conditions and the length of the performance period shall be determined by the Committee. The Committee, in its sole discretion, shall determine whether performance shares granted in the form of share units shall be paid in cash, Shares, or a combination of cash and Shares. 9. RESTRICTED STOCK. Restricted stock may be granted in the form of actual Shares or share units having a value equal to an identical number of Shares. In the event that a certificate is issued in respect of Shares subject to a grant of restricted stock, such certificate shall be registered in the name of the Participant but shall be held by the Company until the end of the restricted period. The employment conditions and the length of the period for vesting of restricted stock shall be established by the Committee at time of grant. The Committee, in its sole discretion, shall determine whether restricted stock granted in the form of share units shall be paid in cash, Shares, or a combination of cash and Shares. 10. AWARD AGREEMENTS. Each award under the Plan shall be evidenced by an agreement setting forth the terms and conditions, as determined by the Committee, which shall apply to such award, in addition to the terms and conditions specified in the Plan. 11. WITHHOLDING. The Company shall have the right to deduct from any payment to be made pursuant to the Plan, or to require prior to the issuance or delivery of any Shares or the payment of cash under the Plan, any taxes required by law to be withheld therefrom. The Committee, in its sole discretion, may permit a Participant to elect to satisfy such withholding obligation by having the Company retain the number of Shares whose fair market value equals the amount required to be withheld. Any fraction of a Share required to satisfy such obligation shall be disregarded and the amount due shall instead be paid in cash to the Participant. 2

13 12. NONTRANSFERABILITY. No award shall be assignable or transferable, and no right or interest of any Participant shall be subject to any lien, obligation or liability of the Participant, except by will or the laws of descent and distribution. 13. NO RIGHT TO EMPLOYMENT. No person shall have any claim or right to be granted an award, and the grant of such award shall not be construed as giving a Participant the right to be retained in the employ of the Company, Vornado or their respective subsidiaries. Further, the Company, Vornado and their respective subsidiaries expressly reserve the right at any time to dismiss a Participant free from any liability, or any claim under the Plan, except as provided herein or in any agreement entered into hereunder. 14. ADJUSTMENT OF AND CHANGES IN SHARES. In the event of any change in the outstanding Shares by reason of any share dividend or split, recapitalization, merger, consolidation, spinoff, combination or exchange of Shares or other corporate change, or any distributions to Common Stockholders other than regular cash dividends, the Committee may make such substitution or adjustment, if any, as it deems to be equitable, as to the number or kind of Shares or other securities issued or reserved for issuance pursuant to the Plan and to outstanding awards. 15. AMENDMENT. The Board of Directors may amend or terminate the Plan or any portion thereof at any time, provided that no amendment shall be made without stockholder approval if such approval is necessary in order for the Plan to continue to comply with Rule 16b-3 under the Exchange Act. 16. RIGHTS AS STOCKHOLDER. Except as provided in Section 5 hereof, a Participant shall have no rights as a stockholder with respect to any Shares issuable upon exercise of any award hereunder until a certificate or certificates evidencing the Shares shall have been issued to the Participant and, subject to Section 14, no adjustment shall be made for dividends or distributions or other rights in respect of any Share for which the record date is prior to the date on which the Participant shall become the holder of record thereof. 17. EFFECTIVE DATE. The Plan shall become effective on the date of its adoption by the Board of Directors of the Company, and awards may be granted immediately thereafter, but any award granted under the Plan is subject to defeasance unless and until the Plan shall have been approved by the stockholders. If such stockholder approval is not obtained, the Plan and any options granted thereunder shall be null and void. Subject to earlier termination pursuant to Section 15, the Plan shall have a term of ten years from its effective date. 3

14 [Letterhead of Shearman & Sterling] July 1, 1996 Alexander's, Inc. Park 80 West, Plaza II Saddle Brook, New Jersey Ladies and Gentlemen: We have acted as counsel for Alexander's, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the "Company"), in connection with the Registration Statement on Form S-8 (the "Registration Statement") of the Company filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), with respect to 350,000 shares (the "Shares") of common stock, par value $1.00 per share, of the Company (the "Common Stock"), to be issued from time to time pursuant to the Alexander's, Inc. Omnibus Stock Plan (the "Plan"). In so acting, we have examined the Registration Statement and we have also examined and relied as to factual matters upon the representations and warranties contained in originals, or copies certified or otherwise identified to our satisfaction, of such documents, records, certificates and other instruments as in our judgment are necessary or appropriate to enable us to render the opinion expressed below. In such examination, we have assumed the genuineness of all signatures, the authenticity of all documents, certificates and instruments submitted to us as originals and the conformity with originals of all documents submitted to us as copies. The opinion expressed below is limited to the law of the State of New York, the General Corporation Law of Delaware and the federal law of the United States, and we do not express any opinion herein concerning any other law. Based upon the foregoing and having regard for such legal considerations as we have deemed relevant, we are of the opinion that the Shares have been duly authorized by the Company and, when (a) issued and delivered by the Company in accordance with the terms of the Plan and (b) paid for in full in accordance with the terms of the Plan, the Shares will be validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable.

15 Alexander's, Inc. 2 July 1, 1996 We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion as an exhibit to the Registration Statement. Very truly yours, /s/ Shearman & Sterling

16 INDEPENDENT AUDITORS' CONSENT We consent to the incorporation by reference in the Registration Statement on Form S-8 relating to the Alexander's, Inc. Omnibus Stock Plan of our report dated March 7, 1996, appearing in the Annual Report on Form 10-K of Alexander's, Inc. for the year ended December 31, /s/ Deloitte & Touche LLP Parsippany, New Jersey June 28, 1996

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