U.S. SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, DC 20549 FORM 4 STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP --------------------------------------------------- OMB APPROVAL --------------------------------------------------- OMB NUMBER 3235-0287 EXPIRES: FEBRUARY 1, 2001 ESTIMATED AVERAGE BURDEN HOURS PER RESPONSE.... 0.5 --------------------------------------------------- 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(1) OF THE INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940 [_] Check this 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 Mandell Steven -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Last) (First) (Middle) P.O. Box 85 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Street) New Vernon New Jersey 07976 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (City) (State) (Zip) ________________________________________________________________________________ 2. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol Party City Corporation Symbol: PCTY ________________________________________________________________________________ 3. IRS or Social Security Number of Reporting Person (Voluntary) ________________________________________________________________________________ 4. Statement for Month/Year 4/02 ________________________________________________________________________________ 5. If Amendment, Date of Original (Month/Year) ________________________________________________________________________________ 6. Relationship of Reporting Person to Issuer (Check all applicable) [_] Director [X] 10% Owner [_] Officer (give title below) [_] Other (specify below) ================================================================================ TABLE 1 -- 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 (Month/ ------------ Amount or Price (Instr. 3 (I) Ownership (Instr. 3) Day/Year) Code V (D) and 4) (Instr.4) (Instr. 4) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ $15.1998 COMMON STOCK 4/10/02 S 36,200 D per share 1,474,378*+ D ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ COMMON STOCK 4/12/02 S 11,700 D $15 1,474,378*+ D per share ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ $15 COMMON STOCK 4/17/02 S 5,000 D per share 1,474,378*+ D ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ $15.2853 COMMON STOCK 4/18/02 S 36,300 D per share 1,474,378*+ D ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ $15.30 COMMON STOCK 4/19/02 S 6,800 D per share 1,474,378*+ D ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ $15.75 COMMON STOCK 4/26/02 S 3,500 D per share 1,474,378*+ I By Mandell Family Limited Partnership ==================================================================================================================================== Reminder: Report on a separate line for each class of securities beneficially owned directly or indirectly. (over) (Print or Type Responses) SFC 1474 (3/91) 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) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ==================================================================================================================================== EXPLANATION OF RESPONSES: + This amount reflects 700,000 shares remaining unexercised under an option agreement between Steven Mandell and Jack Futterman, dated June 8, 1999. Mr. Futterman exercised a portion of the option for 300,000 shares at $3.00 per share in September, 2001. * This amount also reflects shares held by the Mandell Family Limited Partnership. By: /s/ Steven Mandell May 7 , 2002 -------------------------------- --- Steven Mandell SIGNATURE OF REPORTING PERSON 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 SPACED PROVIDED IS INSUFFICIENT, SEE INSTRUCTION 6 FOR PROCEDURE.