U.S. SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, DC 20549 FORM 4 STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, Section 17(a) of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 or Section 30(f) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 [_] Check box if no longer subject to Section 16. Form 4 or Form 5 obligations may continue. See Instruction 1(b). ________________________________________________________________________________ 1. Name and Address of Reporting Person* Kober Roger W. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Last) (First) (Middle) 4640 Lake Drive -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Street) Canandaigua NY 14424 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (City) (State) (Zip) ________________________________________________________________________________ 2. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol Home Properties of New York, Inc. (HME) ________________________________________________________________________________ 3. IRS Identification Number of Reporting Person, if an Entity (Voluntary) ________________________________________________________________________________ 4. Statement for Month/Year August 29, 2002 - See footnotes 1, 2 and 4 ________________________________________________________________________________ 5. If Amendment, Date of Original (Month/Year) ________________________________________________________________________________ 6. Relationship of Reporting Person to Issuer (Check all applicable) [x] Director [_] 10% Owner [_] Officer (give title below) [_] Other (specify below) ________________________________________________________________________________ 7. Individual or Joint/Group Filing (Check applicable line) [x] Form filed by one Reporting Person [_] Form filed by more than one Reporting Person ________________________________________________________________________________ ================================================================================ Table I -- Non-Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned ================================================================================ 6. 4. 5. Owner- Securities Acquired (A) or Amount of ship 3. Disposed of (D) Securities Form: 7. Transaction (Instr. 3, 4 and 5) Beneficially Direct Nature of 2. Code ------------------------------- Owned at End (D) or Indirect 1. Transaction (Instr. 8) (A) of Month Indirect Beneficial Title of Security Date ------------ Amount or Price (Instr. 3 (I) Ownership (Instr. 3) (mm/dd/yy) Code V (D) and 4) (Instr.4) (Instr. 4) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Common Stock, Par value $.01 (1) J(1) V 171 A (1) 12,954 D ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ==================================================================================================================================== * If the Form is filed by more than one Reporting Person, see Instruction 4(b)(v). Reminder: Report on a separate line for each class of securities beneficially owned directly or indirectly. (Print or Type Response) (Over) FORM 4 (continued) Table II -- Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned (e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities) ================================================================================ 10. 9. Owner- Number ship of Form 2. Deriv- of Conver- 5. 7. ative Deriv- 11. sion Number of Title and Amount Secur- ative Nature or Derivative 6. of Underlying 8. ities Secur- of Exer- 4. Securities Date Securities Price Bene- ity: In- cise 3. Trans- Acquired (A) Exercisable and (Instr. 3 and 4) of ficially Direct direct Price Trans- action or Disposed Expiration Date ---------------- Deriv- Owned (D) or Bene- 1. of action Code of(D) (Month/Day/Year) Amount ative at End In- ficial Title of Deriv- Date (Instr. (Instr. 3, ---------------- or Secur- of direct Owner- Derivative ative (Month/ 8) 4 and 5) Date Expira- Number ity Month (I) ship Security Secur- Day/ ------ ------------ Exer- tion of (Instr. (Instr. (Instr. (Instr. (Instr. 3) ity Year) Code V (A) (D) cisable Date Title Shares 5) 4) 4) 4) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Option to Purchase $27.0625 * * * * * * * * * 3,500 D Common Stock ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Option to Purchase $25.6875 * * * * * * * * * 3,500 D Common Stock ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Option to Purchase $28.3125 * * * * * * * * * 2,700 D Common Stock ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Option to Purchase $31.3750 * * * * * * * * * 4,720 D Common Stock ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Option to Purchase $28.34 * * * * * * * * * 7,000 D Common Stock ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Option to Purchase $36.03 05/07/02 A V 7,000 05/07/02 05/07/07 Common 7,000 7,000 D Common Stock Stock ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phantom Stock 1-for-1 (2) A(2) V 866(2) (3) (3) Common 866 (2) 2,047 D Stock ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ==================================================================================================================================== Explanation of Responses: (1) Represents shares acquired under the Company's Dividend Reinvestment Plan on various dividend payment dates from January 1, 2002 through August 29, 2002 in transactions that are exempt from Section 16(b) at prices ranging from $31.6197 to $33.54344 per share. This information is not required to be provided. (2) Represents phantom stock units accrued to Reporting Person's account under the Director's Deferred Compensation Plan from January 1, 2002 through August 29, 2002 at prices ranging from $31.60 to $36.90 per unit, including hypothetical shares accrued pursuant to the dividend reinvestment feature of the Plan. (3) The Reporting Person's account will be paid in the form of the Issuer's common stock on or about the 3rd, 5th or 10th anniversary of the deferral depending on the election of the Reporting Person. (4) Please note that the disclosed items were not previously required to be disclosed on a current basis. /s/ Roger W. Kober by Ann M. McCormick attorney-in-fact August 30, 2002 --------------------------------------------- ----------------------- **Signature of Reporting Person Date ** Intentional misstatements or omissions of facts constitute Federal Criminal Violations. See 18 U.S.C. 1001 and 15 U.S.C. 78ff(a). Note: File three copies of this Form, one of which must be manually signed. If space provided is insufficient, see Instruction 6 for procedure. Page 2