New York Mortgage Trust, Inc. announced that it has extended the expiration date of its offer to exchange up to $100,000,000 of new 5.75% Senior Notes due 2026 (the “Exchange Notes”) that have been registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, for an equal amount of outstanding unregistered 5.75% Senior Notes due 2026 (the “Existing Notes”). As a result of the extension, the exchange offer is now scheduled to expire at 5:00 P.M., New York City time, on July 23, 2021, unless further extended. The exchange offer was originally set to expire at 5:00 P.M., New York City time, on July 21, 2021. As of this date, tenders of approximately $98,750,000 aggregate principal amount, or 98.75%, of the Existing Notes have been received pursuant to the exchange offer. Except for the extension of the expiration date, all of the other terms of the exchange offer remain as set forth in the exchange offer prospectus, dated June 21, 2021. This is not an offer to exchange the Exchange Notes for the Existing Notes or the solicitation of an offer to exchange, which the company are making only through the exchange offer prospectus.