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Exhibit 4.2    
  


        UNLESS THIS NOTE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION ("DTC"), 55 WATER STREET, NEW YORK, NEW
YORK, TO THE COMPANY (AS DEFINED BELOW) OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME
AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER,
PLEDGE, OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN. 


        THIS
NOTE IS A GLOBAL NOTE WITHIN THE MEANING SET FORTH IN THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF DTC OR A NOMINEE OF DTC. THIS NOTE IS EXCHANGEABLE FOR
NOTES REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A PERSON OTHER THAN DTC OR ITS NOMINEE ONLY IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE, AND MAY NOT BE TRANSFERRED EXCEPT AS A WHOLE BY DTC TO A NOMINEE OF
DTC OR ANOTHER NOMINEE OF DTC OR BY DTC OR ITS NOMINEE TO A SUCCESSOR DEPOSITORY OR ITS NOMINEE. 


Registered
No.001 


$250,000,000



CUSIP
No. 648053 AA 4 


NEW
PLAN EXCEL REALTY TRUST, INC. 


5.875%
SENIOR NOTE DUE 2007 


        NEW
PLAN EXCEL REALTY TRUST, INC., a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of Maryland (herein referred to as the "Company," which term shall include
any successor corporation under the Indenture hereinafter referred to), for value received, hereby promises to pay to Cede & Co. or registered assigns, upon presentation, the principal sum of
Two Hundred Fifty Million Dollars ($250,000,000) on June 15, 2007 (the "Stated Maturity Date"), unless redeemed in full prior to the Stated Maturity Date, and to pay interest on the outstanding
principal amount thereof from June 18, 2002 or from the immediately preceding Interest Payment Date (as defined below) to which interest has been paid or duly provided for,
semi-annually in arrears on June 15 and December 15 in each year (each, an "Interest Payment Date"), commencing December 15, 2002, at the rate of 5.875% per annum,
until the entire principal hereof is paid or made available for payment. The interest so payable and punctually paid or duly provided for on any Interest Payment Date will, as provided in the
Indenture, be paid to the Person in whose name this Note is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest, which shall be the June 1 or December 1
(whether or not a Business Day), as the case may be, next preceding such Interest Payment Date. Any such interest not so punctually paid or duly provided for shall forthwith cease to be payable to the
Holder on such Regular Record Date, and may either be paid to the Person in whose name this Note is registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted
Interest to be fixed by the Trustee (as defined below), notice whereof shall be given to Holders of the Notes not more than 15 days and not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record
Date, or may be paid at any time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which the Notes (as defined below) may be listed, and upon such notice
as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully provided in the Indenture. 


        Payment
of the principal of and Make-Whole Amount (as defined below), if any, and interest on this Note on the Stated Maturity Date or date of earlier redemption will be made
in same day funds against presentation and surrender of this Note at the office or agency maintained for that purpose in 





 




the City of New York, or elsewhere as provided in the Indenture, in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private
debts; provided, however, that at the option of the Company payments of principal and interest on the Notes (other than payments of principal and Make-Whole Amount, if any, and interest
due on the Stated Maturity Date or date of earlier redemption) may be made by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such address shall appear in the Security Register; provided
further, that interest due on an Interest Payment Date on or prior to a date previously set for redemption will be paid on such Interest Payment Date to the holder of this Note on the applicable
Regular Record Date. Interest on this Note will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. 



        This
Note will be part of a series of debt securities of the Company (herein called the "Debt Securities") titled "5.875% Senior Notes Due 2007" (herein called the "Notes"), issued and
to be
issued in one or more series under an Indenture, dated as of February 3, 1999 (the "Indenture"), by and among the Company, New Plan Realty Trust, as guarantor, and State Street Bank and Trust
Company, as trustee (herein called the "Trustee," which term includes any successor trustee under the Indenture), to which Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made
for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Company, the Trustee and the Holders of the Notes and of the terms upon which the Notes are
authenticated and delivered. 


        This
Note may be redeemed at any time at the option of the Company, in whole or in part, in accordance with the terms of Article Eleven of the Indenture, at a redemption price equal to
the sum of (i) the principal amount being redeemed plus unpaid interest accrued thereon to the redemption date and (ii) the Make-Whole Amount, if any, with respect thereto. 


        Notwithstanding
anything in the Indenture to the contrary, "Make-Whole Amount" means, in connection with any optional redemption of any Notes, the excess, if any, of: 



	•
	the
aggregate present value as of the Redemption Date of each dollar of principal being redeemed and the amount of interest, exclusive of interest accrued to
the Redemption Date, that would have been payable in respect of each dollar if the redemption had not been made, determined by discounting, on a semi-annual basis, such principal and interest at the
Reinvestment Rate (as defined below), determined on the third business day preceding the date notice of the redemption is given, from the respective dates on which such principal and interest would
have been payable if the redemption had not been made, to the Redemption Date; over



	•
	the
aggregate principal amount of the Notes being redeemed. 




        "Reinvestment
Rate" means a rate per annum equal to the sum of 0.25% plus the arithmetic mean of the yields under the headings "Week Ending" published in the most recent Statistical
Release under the caption "Treasury Constant Maturities" for the maturity (rounded to the nearest month) corresponding to the remaining life to maturity of the Notes, as of the payment date of the
principal being redeemed. If no maturity exactly corresponds to the maturity, yields for the two published maturities most closely corresponding to that maturity shall be calculated pursuant to the
immediately preceding sentence and the Reinvestment Rate shall be interpolated or extrapolated from those yields on a straight-line basis, rounding each of the relevant periods to the
nearest month. For purposes of calculating the Reinvestment Rate, the most recent Statistical Release published prior to the date of determination of the Make-Whole Amount shall be used. 



        "Statistical
Release" means the statistical release designated "H.15(519)" or any successor publication which is published weekly by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
and which reports yields on actively traded United States government securities adjusted to constant maturities or, if the statistical release is not published at the time of any determination of the
Make-Whole Amount, then such other reasonably comparable index which shall be designated by us. 


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        The
Indenture contains provisions for defeasance at any time of (a) the entire indebtedness of the Company on this Note and (b) certain restrictive covenants and the
related defaults and Events of Default applicable to the Company, in each case, upon compliance by the Company with certain conditions set forth in the Indenture, which provisions apply to this Note. 


        If
an Event of Default with respect to the Notes shall occur and be continuing, the principal of the Notes may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in
the Indenture. 


        As
provided in and subject to the provisions of the Indenture, the Holder of this Note shall not have the right to institute any proceeding with respect to the Indenture or for the
appointment of a receiver or trustee or for any other remedy thereunder, unless such Holder shall have previously given written notice to the Trustee of a continuing Event of Default with respect to
the Notes, the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the Notes at the time Outstanding shall have made written request to the Trustee to institute proceedings in respect of such Event of
Default as Trustee and offered the Trustee reasonable indemnity and the Trustee shall not have received from the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Notes at the time Outstanding a
direction inconsistent with such request, and shall have failed to institute any such proceeding, for 60 days after receipt of such notice, request and offer of indemnity. The foregoing shall
not apply to any suit instituted by the Holder of this Note for the enforcement of any payment of principal hereof or any Make-Whole Amount or interest hereon on or after the respective
due dates expressed herein. 


        The
Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Company and the rights of the Holders
of the Outstanding Debt Securities of each series to be affected under the Indenture at any time by the Company and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in principal
amount of the Outstanding Debt Securities of each series of the Notes then Outstanding affected thereby (voting as one class). The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of
specified percentages in principal amount of the Notes at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of all the Notes, to waive compliance by the Company with certain provisions of the Indenture
and certain past defaults under the Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Note shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders
of this Note and of any Note issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange herefor or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Note. 



        No
reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Note or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay
the principal of (and Make-Whole Amount, if any) and interest on this Note at the times, place and rate, and in the coin or currency, herein prescribed. 


        As
provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein and herein set forth, the transfer of this Note is registrable in the Security Register, upon surrender of this
Note for registration of transfer at the office or agency of the Company in any Place of Payment where the principal of (and Make-Whole Amount, if any) and interest on this Note are
payable, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Security Registrar duly executed by the Holder hereof or his or her attorney
duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Notes, of authorized denominations and for the same aggregate principal amount, will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees. 


        The
Notes are issuable only in registered form in denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple thereof. As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein and
herein set forth, this Note is exchangeable for a like aggregate principal amount of Notes of this series of a different authorized denomination, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same. 


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        No
service charge shall be made for any such registration of transfer or exchange, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge
payable in connection therewith. 


        Prior
to due presentment of this Note for registration of transfer, the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this Note is
registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Note be overdue, and neither the Company, the Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary. 


        No
recourse under or upon any obligation, covenant or agreement contained in the Indenture or in this Note, or because of any indebtedness evidenced hereby or thereby, shall be had
against any promoter, as such, or against any past, present or future stockholder, officer or director, as such, of the Company or of any successor, either directly or through the Company or any
successor, under any rule of law, statute or constitutional provision or by the enforcement of any assessment or by any legal or equitable proceeding or otherwise, all such liability being expressly
waived and released by the acceptance of this Note by the Holder thereof and as part of the consideration for the issue of the Notes. 


        All
capitalized terms used but not otherwise defined in this Note which are defined in the Indenture shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture. 


        THE
INDENTURE AND THE NOTES, INCLUDING THIS NOTE, SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. 


        Pursuant
to a recommendation promulgated by the Committee on Uniform Security Identification Procedures, the Company has caused a "CUSIP" number to be printed on the Notes as a
convenience to the Holders of such Notes. No representation is made as to the correctness or accuracy of such CUSIP number as printed on the Notes, and reliance may be placed only on the other
identification numbers printed hereon. 


        Unless
the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by or on behalf of the Trustee by manual signature, this Note shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture
or be valid or obligatory for any purpose. 


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        IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, NEW PLAN EXCEL REALTY TRUST, INC. has caused this instrument to be duly executed under its corporate seal. 


Dated:
June 18, 2002 



	 	 	NEW PLAN EXCEL REALTY TRUST, INC.
	

 	
 	

By:	

 Name:

Title:
	

 	
 	

 	

 
	[Corporate Seal]	 	 	 
	

 	
 	

 	

 
	Attest:	 	 	 
	

 	
 	

 	

 
	
 Steven F. Siegel

Secretary	 	 	 




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TRUSTEE'S
CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION: 


        This
is one of the Notes of the series designated therein referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture. 



	 	 	STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY, as Trustee
	

 	
 	

By:	

 Name:

Title:




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ASSIGNMENT
FORM 


FOR
VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby

sells, assigns and transfers unto 



PLEASE
INSERT SOCIAL

SECURITY OR OTHER IDENTIFYING

NUMBER OF ASSIGNEE 








(Please Print or Typewrite Name and Address including

Zip Code of Assignee) 






the within Note of New Plan Excel Realty Trust, Inc. and hereby does irrevocably

constitute and appoint 


                                        
        
Attorney to transfer said Note on the books of the within-named Company with full power of substitution in the premises. 



	Dated:	

	

 	

 
	 	






NOTICE:
The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name as it appears on the first page of the within Note in every particular, without alteration or enlargement or any change whatever. 


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