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  0001538637
  XXXXXXXX
  LIVE
  0000846617
  Dime Community Bancshares, Inc. /NY/
  001-34096
  898 Veterans Memorial Highway, Suite 560
  Hauppauge
  NY
  11788
  631-537-1000
  Basswood Financial Long Only Fund, LP
  Director
  Common Stock, par value $0.10 (???Common Stock???)
  Jones Trading Institutional Services LLC
  555 St. Charles Drive, Suite 200
  Thousand Oaks
  CA
  91360
  11000
  238950
  38826921
  09/06/2023
  NASDAQ
  Common Stock
  02/04/2014
  (3)
  Open Market and/or Transfers from Afiliates
  N
  53148
  02/04/2014
  Cash (3)
  Y
  (1) Based on the closing price of $21.69 of the Common Stock on September 5, 2023.
  (2) Based on the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding as of July 31st, 2023, as reported by the issuer in its Earnings Release for the fiscal quarter ended June 30th, 2023, which was filed with the Commission on August 2nd, 2023.
  (3) Basswood Financial Long Only Fund, LP obtained the shares of Common Stock listed in Table I through open market purchases and/or Transfers from Affiliates, from February 2014 through August 2023.
  09/06/2023
  By: Basswood Capital Management L.L.C, its investment manager; By: /s/ Marc Samit, Principal and Chief Operating Officer