In consideration of the above, and all of the terms of this Agreement, you, [[Person A:Person]] yourself, your agents, successors, heirs and assigns (“Releasors”), do hereby release, remise and forever discharge GTJ REIT, Inc. and each of its parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, related entities, predecessors, successors, assigns, and each of its current and former agents, servants, shareholders, employees, officers, directors, managers, executives, members, trustees, employees, representatives, board members, attorneys, investors and insurers and each of their heirs, successors, executors and administrators and all persons acting by, through, under and/or in concert with any of them (“Releasees”) of and from any and all claims, demands, causes of action, actions, rights, damages, judgments, costs, compensation, suits, debts, dues, accounts, bonds, covenants, agreements, expenses, attorneys’ fees, damages, penalties, punitive damages and liability of any nature whatsoever, in law or in equity or otherwise, which Releasors (You) have had, now have, shall or may have, whether known or unknown, foreseen or unforeseen, suspected or unsuspected, by reason of any cause, matter or thing whatsoever, from the beginning of the world to the effective date of this Agreement, including those relating to or arising out of your employment with the Company and/or its affiliates, the terms and conditions of such employment, and the termination of that employment.

General Release. Employee acknowledges that Employee would not be entitled to receive the Separation Pay provided for herein absent Employee’s execution of and compliance with this Agreement. In consideration of the Separation Pay and other benefits, Employee, individually and on behalf of Employee’s spouse, domestic partner, heirs and assigns (as applicable), to the fullest extent permitted under applicable law, unconditionally releases and discharges ESI, its subsidiaries, any related corporations and/or entities and each entity’s respective directors, officers, shareholders, employees, agents, successors and assigns, in their individual and representative capacities (collectively “Releasees”), from any and all known or unknown liability, damages claims, causes of action or suits of any type related directly or indirectly to Employee's employment with ESI, and the termination of Employee's employment with ESI, including claims under any common law theories, including but not limited to, breach of contract or tort or tort-like theories and under any local, state or federal, constitutional, civil rights, labor, and employment laws, including but not limited to, Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Post Civil War Civil Rights Acts (42 USC §§ 1981‑1988), the Civil Rights Act of 1991, the Equal Pay Act, Older Workers’ Benefit Protection Act, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act, the Fair Labor Standards Act, Executive Order 11246, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, and the Family and Medical Leave Act, all as amended, including any regulations or guidelines thereunder.

General Release. Expressly conditioned upon timely completion of the requirements set forth herein, each Party, and each of their respective members, does hereby release and forever discharge the other Party, and each of its respective members, from any and all manner of action or actions, cause or causes of action, in law or in equity, suits, debts, liens, contracts (express, implied in fact, or implied by law), agreements, promises, liabilities, claims, set offs, rights and claims for indemnity and/or contribution, refunds, overpayments, demands, commissions, damages, losses, costs, or expenses, of any nature whatsoever, known or unknown, suspected or unsuspected, fixed or contingent, which each now has or may hereafter have by reason of any matter, cause, or thing whatsoever from the beginning of time to the date hereof, including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, any matters that or might have been in any way raised, by complaint, cross-complaint or otherwise and the agreements shall be null and void and of no effect. Notwithstanding the above, or any other provisions of this instrument, this Agreement shall not affect, discharge, or release any claims, known or unknown, which arise from or relate to the rights or obligations of the Parties hereto, whether presently existing or subsequently accruing, with respect to the obligations created by or arising out of the provisions of this Agreement or the Voting Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby.

Exceptions to the Release. This Release does not waive any claims # for unemployment or workers’ compensation, # for vested or other rights to which the Employee may be entitled under the Company’s employee benefit plans on the date Employee signs this Release that cannot legally be waived, # that may arise after Employee signs this Release, # for reimbursement of expenses under the Company’s expense reimbursement policies, or # which cannot be released by private agreement. In addition, nothing in this Release, including but not limited to the acknowledgements, Full and Final Release, and provisions related to Confidential Information of Company, Non-Disparagement, Non-Compete, Company Property, Confidentiality, and Cooperation, # limits or affects Employee’s right to challenge the validity of this Release under ADEA or the Older Workers Benefit Protection Act (OWBPA) or # prevents Employee from filing a charge or complaint with or from participating in an investigation or proceeding conducted by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission EEOC, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), or any other federal, state or local agency charged with the enforcement of any laws, or from exercising rights under Section 7 of the NLRA to engage in protected, concerted activity, although by signing this Release, Employee waives the right to individual relief (including any backpay, frontpay, reinstatement or other legal or equitable relief) in any charge, complaint, or lawsuit or other proceeding brought by Employee or on Employee’s behalf by any third party, except for any right Employee may have to receive a payment from a government agency (and not the Company) for information provided to the government agency. Furthermore, nothing in this Release prohibits Employee from reporting possible violations of federal law or regulation to any responsible government authority, including but not limited to the Department of Justice, the SEC, the Congress, and any agency Inspector General, or making other disclosures that are protected under the whistleblower provisions of federal law or regulation; and Employee does not need the prior authorization of the Company to make any such reports or disclosures and is not required to notify the Company that Employee has made such reports or disclosures. If any disclosures Employee makes to the responsible government authorities include Company Confidential Information, Employee will so notify the authorities in time for them to take steps to protect the information’s confidentiality. Employee is hereby notified that Employee will not be held criminally or civilly liable under any federal or state trade secret law for the disclosure of a trade secret that is # made in confidence to a federal, state or local government official, either directly or indirectly, or to an attorney, solely for the purpose of reporting or investigating a suspected violation of law; or # made in a complaint or other document filed in a lawsuit or other proceeding, if such filing is made under seal and Employee does not disclose the trade secret except pursuant to court order.

General Release Requirement. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, it will be a condition to Executive's right to receive the amounts provided for in Section 6.1, Section 6.2 and Section 7.1, that Executive timely execute and deliver to the Company, a general release provided by and acceptable to the Company within twenty-one (21) days of its delivery to Executive (or such longer period as may be required under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, as amended), without subsequent revocation of the general release. Upon satisfaction of the general release condition, the payment of the severance benefits will commence as provided in Section 6.1, Section 6.2 and Section 7.1 or as applicable as provided in this Agreement.

Mutual General Release. In exchange for the mutual consideration and the Company's payments and other undertakings as described herein, the Company and the Executive, for their selves and their heirs, legal representatives, successors and assigns, do hereby completely release and forever discharge each other and their heirs, the Company’s parent, subsidiary and affiliated companies, and their respective shareholders, officers, directors, representatives, employees, former employees, agents, attorneys, successors and assigns (herein collectively “the Releases”) from all claims, rights, demands, actions, obligations and causes of action of any and every kind, nature and character, known or unknown, that either party may now have or has ever had against them, arising from or in any way connected with the employment relationship between the parties, any actions taken by any of the Releases during the employment relationship, the termination of that relationship, and any other dealings of any kind between Executive and any of the Releases up to the effective date of the Agreement, including but not limited to # any and all claims of “wrongful discharge,” breach of express or implied contract, breach of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing, wrongful discharge in violation of public policy, intentional infliction of emotional distress, negligent infliction of emotional distress, fraud and defamation; # any tort of any nature; # any and all claims arising under any federal, state, county or municipal statute, constitution or ordinance, including but not limited to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Civil Rights Act of 1991, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the Older Workers Benefit Protection Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (excluding claims for benefits under a plan or program subject thereto), and any other laws and regulations relating to employment discrimination; and # any and all claims for compensation, bonuses, severance pay, vacation pay, expense reimbursement, attorneys' fees and costs. Nothing herein shall limit Executive’s rights to indemnification under the Company’s bylaws or other organizational documents or to post-termination coverage under and pursuant to the terms of the Company’s D&O insurance policies.

Exceptions. Notwithstanding the foregoing obligations of confidentiality and restrictions on use, the receiving Party may disclose the disclosing Party’s Confidential Information: # to the receiving Party’s employees, agents, or independent contractors who # have a need to know such Confidential Information to assist the receiving Party or act on its behalf in accordance with the terms of this Agreement; and # are bound by obligations of confidentiality and non-disclosure at least as restrictive as those set forth in Section 6.1; provided that the receiving Party shall ensure compliance with, and be liable for any breach of, Section 6.1 by any such employees, agents, or independent contractors; # to the extent necessary to comply with a court order or other applicable Law, including regulations promulgated by security exchanges; provided that the receiving Party shall, to the extent legally permissible and practicable, provide prompt notice of such required disclosure to ethe disclosing Party and cooperate, at the other Party’s sole cost and expense, with the disclosing Party’s efforts to obtain a protective order, confidential treatment, or other limitation on such required disclosure; and # to actual or prospective acquirers, licensees (including sublicensees), investors, lenders, and other financial or commercial partners (and to their respective advisors, agents, and representatives) to the extent reasonably necessary for evaluating or carrying out a transaction with such Persons, in each case under written obligations of confidentiality and non-disclosure at least as restrictive as those set forth in Section 6.1.

Exceptions. Notwithstanding anything set forth above to the contrary, the Extension Right shall, at Landlord’s option, not be in effect and Tenant may not exercise the Extension Right:

Exceptions. The provisions of paragraphs [(b) and (c) above] will not be deemed to prohibit any disclosure that is required by law or court order, provided that Employee has not intentionally taken actions to trigger such required disclosure and the Company is given reasonable prior notice and an opportunity to contest or minimize such disclosure.

Exceptions. The obligations set forth in Section 13(a) shall not apply to any portion of the Confidential Information that the receiving Party can demonstrate by legally sufficient evidence: # now or hereafter, through no act or failure to act on the part of the receiving Party, is or becomes generally available; # is known to the receiving Party at the time of receiving such Confidential Information and not subject to an obligation of confidentiality to a Third Party; # is hereafter furnished to the receiving Party by a Third Party as a matter of right (and without violating any agreement with the disclosing Party) without restriction on use or disclosure; or # is independently developed by the receiving Party without use of any Confidential Information received from the other Party. In addition, each receiving Party may disclose Confidential Information to the extent such disclosure is reasonably necessary to prosecute or defend litigation, to comply with applicable law or regulation or the rules of any securities exchange or other trading market on which such Party's securities are listed, to protect intellectual property rights, to obtain necessary or desirable regulatory approvals, to respond to a valid order of a court or other governmental body or any political subdivision thereof, or to conduct preclinical or clinical trials, provided that, other than with respect to disclosure for protecting intellectual property rights, the receiving Party shall use reasonable efforts to secure confidential treatment of such Confidential Information required to be disclosed.