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  0001085393
  XXXXXXXX
  LIVE
  0000846617
  Dime Community Bancshares, Inc. /NY/
  001-34096
  898 Veterans Memorial Highway, Suite 560
  Hauppauge
  NY
  11788
  631-537-1000
  BASSWOOD CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, L.L.C.
  Director
  Common Stock, par value $0.10 (???Common Stock???)
  Jones Trading Institutional Services LLC
  555 St. Charles Drive, Suite 200
  Thousand Oaks
  CA
  91360
  681535
  14584849
  38826921
  08/30/2023
  NASDAQ
  Common Stock
  01/16/2014
  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 to September 2021.
  Open Market and/or Transfers from Afiliates
  N
  1721617
  01/16/2014
  Cash
  Y
  (1) Aggregate market value in 3(d) is based on the closing price of $21.40 of the Common Stock on August 28th, 2023.
  (2) Number of shares outstanding in 3(e) is 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.
  08/30/2023
  By: Basswood Capital Management L.L.C, its investment manager; By: /s/ Marc Samit, Principal and Chief Operating Officer