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  0001269757
  XXXXXXXX
  LIVE
  0000846617
  Dime Community Bancshares, Inc. /NY/
  001-34096
  898 Veterans Memorial Highway, Suite 560
  Hauppauge
  NY
  11788
  631-537-1000
  Basswood Financial Fund, Ltd.
  Director
  Common Stock, par value $0.10 (???Common Stock???)
  Jones Trading Institutional Services LLC
  555 St. Charles Drive, Suite 200
  Thousand Oaks
  CA
  91360
  516
  13906.2
  43818562
  06/09/2025
  NASDAQ
  Common Stock
  08/06/2014
  (3)
  Open Market and/or Transfers from Affiliates
  N
  7905
  08/06/2014
  Cash (3)
  Y
  (1) Based on the closing price of $26.95 of the Common Stock on June 6, 2025.
  (2) Based on the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding as of April 30, 2025, as reported by the issuer in its 10Q for the fiscal quarter ended March 30, 2025, which was filed with the Commission on May 6, 2025.
  (3) Basswood Capital Management, LLC manages these shares for various separately managed accounts and obtained the shares of Common Stock listed in Table I through open market purchases and/or Transfers from Affiliates, from January 2014 through November 2024.
  (4) Basswood Financial Fund, Ltd. was previously known as Basswood Opportunity Fund, Inc.
  06/09/2025
  Basswood Capital Management L.L.C, its investment manager; By: /s/ Marc Samit, Principal and Chief Operating Officer