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    <div style="text-align: right; font-weight: bold;">Registration No. 333-_________</div>
    <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 29, 2022</div>
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    <div style="text-align: center; font-size: 12pt;"><font style="font-weight: bold;">UNITED STATES</font></div>
    <div style="text-align: center; font-size: 12pt;"><font style="font-weight: bold;">SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION</font></div>
    <div style="text-align: center; font-size: 12pt;"><font style="font-weight: bold;">Washington, D.C.&#160; 20549</font></div>
    <div style="text-align: center; font-size: 12pt;"><font style="font-weight: bold;"></font>_________________________</div>
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    <div style="text-align: center; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">FORM S-8</div>
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    <div style="text-align: center; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">REGISTRATION STATEMENT</div>
    <div style="text-align: center; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">UNDER</div>
    <div style="text-align: center; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933</div>
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    <div style="text-align: center; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">Blue Foundry Bancorp</div>
    <div style="text-align: center; font-size: 8pt;">(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)</div>
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            <div style="text-align: center; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">Delaware</div>
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            <div style="text-align: center; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">86-2831373</div>
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            <div style="text-align: center; font-size: 8pt;">(State or Other Jurisdiction of</div>
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            <div style="text-align: center; font-size: 8pt;">(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)</div>
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            <div style="text-align: center; font-size: 8pt;">Incorporation or Organization)</div>
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    <div style="text-align: center; font-size: 12pt;"><font style="font-weight: bold;">19 Park Avenue</font></div>
    <div style="text-align: center; font-size: 12pt;"><font style="font-weight: bold;">Rutherford, New Jersey 07070<br>
      </font></div>
    <div style="text-align: center; font-size: 12pt;"><font style="font-size: 8pt;">(Address of Principal Executive Offices)</font><font style="font-weight: bold;"></font></div>
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    <div style="text-align: center; font-size: 12pt;"><font style="font-weight: bold;">Blue Foundry Bancorp 2022 Equity Incentive Plan</font></div>
    <div style="text-align: center;"><font style="font-size: 8pt;">(Full Title of the Plan)</font></div>
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    <div style="text-align: center;">Copies to:</div>
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            <div style="text-align: center;">James D. Nesci</div>
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            <div style="text-align: center;">John G. Gorman, Esq.</div>
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            <div style="text-align: center;">President and Chief Executive Officer</div>
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            <div style="text-align: center;">Thomas P. Hutton, Esq.</div>
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            <div style="text-align: center;">Blue Foundry Bancorp</div>
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            <div style="text-align: center;">Luse Gorman, PC</div>
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            <div style="text-align: center;">19 Park Avenue</div>
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            <div style="text-align: center;">5335 Wisconsin Ave., N.W., Suite 780</div>
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            <div style="text-align: center;">Rutherford, New Jersey 07070</div>
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            <div style="text-align: center;">Washington, DC 20015-2035</div>
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            <div style="text-align: center;">(201) 939-5000</div>
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            <div style="text-align: center;">(202) 274-2000</div>
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            <div style="text-align: center;">(Name, Address and Telephone</div>
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            <div style="text-align: center;">Number of Agent for Service)</div>
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    <div style="text-align: justify;">Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, smaller reporting company, or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of &#8220;large
      accelerated filer,&#8221; &#8220;accelerated filer,&#8221; &#8220;smaller reporting company&#8221; and &#8220;emerging growth company&#8221; in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act:</div>
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            <div>Large accelerated filer &#9744;</div>
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            <div>Accelerated filer &#9744;</div>
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            <div>Non-accelerated filer&#160; &#8999;</div>
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            <div>Smaller reporting company&#8999;</div>
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            <div>Emerging growth company &#8999;</div>
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    <div style="text-align: justify;">If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to
      Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act. &#9744;</div>
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    <div><font style="font-weight: bold;">PART I.</font><font style="display: inline-block; text-indent: 0px; font-size: 1px; width: 72pt" id="TRGRRTFtoHTMLTab">&#160;</font><font style="font-weight: bold;">INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS</font></div>
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    <div style="text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><font style="font-weight: bold;">Items 1 and 2.</font><font style="display: inline-block; text-indent: 0px; font-size: 1px; width: 108pt" id="TRGRRTFtoHTMLTab">&#160;</font><font style="font-weight: bold;">Plan Information; and Registrant Information and Employee Plan Annual Information</font></div>
    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;">The documents containing the information specified in Part I of Form S-8 have been or will be sent or given to participants in the Blue Foundry Bancorp 2022 Equity Incentive Plan
      (the &#8220;Plan&#8221;) as specified by Rule 428(b)(1) promulgated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (the &#8220;Commission&#8221;) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the &#8220;Securities Act&#8221;).</div>
    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;">Such documents are not being filed with the Commission but constitute (along with the documents incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement pursuant to Item 3 of
      Part II hereof) a prospectus that meets the requirements of Section 10(a) of the Securities Act.</div>
    <div style="text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><font style="font-weight: bold;">PART II.</font><font style="display: inline-block; text-indent: 0px; font-size: 1px; width: 72pt" id="TRGRRTFtoHTMLTab">&#160;</font><font style="font-weight: bold;">INFORMATION


        REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT</font></div>
    <div style="text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><font style="font-weight: bold;">Item 3.</font><font style="display: inline-block; text-indent: 0px; font-size: 1px; width: 72pt" id="TRGRRTFtoHTMLTab">&#160;</font><font style="font-weight: bold;">Incorporation


        of Documents by Reference</font></div>
    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;">The following documents previously filed by Blue Foundry Bancorp (the &#8220;Company&#8221;) with the Commission under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the &#8220;Exchange Act&#8221;),
      are incorporated herein by reference (other than any such documents or portions thereof that are furnished under Item 2.02 or Item 7.01 of Form&#160;8-K,&#160;unless otherwise indicated therein, including any exhibits included with such Items):</div>
    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;">(a)&#160; <font class="HorizontalTab" style="width: 9pt; font-size: 1px; display: inline-block;"> &#160;&#160;</font> The Company&#8217;s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31,
      2021 filed with the Commission on <a href="https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/0001846017/000162828022005995/blue-20211231.htm">March 14, 2022</a> (File No. 001-40619), pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act (including information
      specifically incorporated by reference therein from the Company&#8217;s definitive proxy statement on Schedule 14A, filed with the Commission on <a href="https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001846017/000119312522196357/d346564ddef14a.htm">July 18,
        2022</a>);</div>
    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;">(b)<font style="display: inline-block; text-indent: 0px; font-size: 1px; width: 36pt" id="TRGRRTFtoHTMLTab">&#160;</font>The Company&#8217;s Quarterly Reports on Form&#160;10-Q&#160;for the quarter
      ended March&#160;31, 2022, filed with the Commission on <a href="https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/0001846017/000162828022014261/blue-20220331.htm">May 13, 2022</a>&#160;and for the quarter ended June&#160;30, 2022, filed with the Commission on <a href="https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/0001846017/000162828022022596/blue-20220630.htm">August 12, 2022</a> (File No. for all 001-40619);</div>
    <div style="text-indent: 36pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;">(c)<font style="display: inline-block; text-indent: 0px; font-size: 1px; width: 36pt" id="TRGRRTFtoHTMLTab">&#160;</font>The Company&#8217;s Current Reports on Form 8-K filed on <a href="https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/0001846017/000162828022000754/blue-20220112.htm">January 12, 2022</a>; <a href="https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/0001846017/000162828022009046/blue-20220413.htm">April 13, 2022</a>;
      <a href="https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/0001846017/000094337422000149/form8k.htm">April 13, 2022</a>; <a href="https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/0001846017/000162828022010151/blue-20220425.htm">April 25, 2022</a>; <a href="https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/0001846017/000094337422000183/form8k_051822.htm">May 24, 2022</a>; <a href="https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/0001846017/000162828022017936/blue-20220617.htm">June 24, 2022</a>; <a href="https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/0001846017/000162828022018586/blue-20220706.htm">July 6, 2022</a>; <a href="https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/0001846017/000162828022019187/blue-20220720.htm">July 20, 2022</a>;
      and <a href="https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/0001846017/000094337422000342/form8k.htm">August 25, 2022</a> (File No. for all 001-40619); and</div>
    <div style="text-indent: 36pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;">(d)<font style="display: inline-block; text-indent: 0px; font-size: 1px; width: 36pt" id="TRGRRTFtoHTMLTab">&#160;</font>The description of the Company&#8217;s common stock contained in the Registration
      Statement on Form 8-A filed with the Commission on <a href="https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001846017/000094337421000354/form8a_071521.htm">July 15, 2021</a> (File No. 001-40619), including any subsequent amendments or reports filed for the
      purpose of updating such description.</div>
    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;">All documents subsequently filed by the Company with the Commission pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14, or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, after the date hereof, and prior to the
      filing of a post-effective amendment which indicates that all securities offered hereby have been sold or which deregisters all securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement and to be a
      part thereof from the date of the filing of such documents.</div>
    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;">Any statement contained in the documents incorporated, or deemed to be incorporated, by reference herein or therein shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes of
      this Registration Statement and the prospectus to the extent that a statement contained herein or therein or in any other subsequently filed document which also is, or is deemed to be, incorporated by reference herein or therein modifies or
      supersedes such statement.&#160; Any such statement so modified or superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded, to constitute a part of this Registration Statement and the prospectus.</div>
    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;">All information appearing in this Registration Statement and the prospectus is qualified in its entirety by the detailed information, including financial statements, appearing in
      the documents incorporated herein or therein by reference.</div>
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    <div style="text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">Item 4.&#160; Description of Securities</div>
    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;">Not applicable.</div>
    <div style="text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">Item 5.&#160; Interests of Named Experts and Counsel</div>
    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;">None.</div>
    <div style="text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">Item 6.&#160; Indemnification of Directors and Officers</div>
    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;">Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law (&#8220;DGCL&#8221;), inter alia, empowers a Delaware corporation to indemnify any person who was or is a party or is threatened to be
      made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (other than an action by or in the right of the corporation), by reason of the fact that such person is or was a
      director, officer, employee or agent of the corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, or other enterprise, against expenses (including attorneys&#8217; fees),
      judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by the person in connection with such action, suit or proceeding if the person acted in good faith and in a manner the person reasonably believed to be in or not opposed
      to the best interests of the corporation, and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe the person&#8217;s conduct was unlawful. Similar indemnity is authorized for such person against expenses (including
      attorneys&#8217; fees) actually and reasonably incurred in connection with the defense or settlement of any such threatened, pending or completed action or suit if such person acted in good faith and in a manner he reasonably believed to be in or not
      opposed to the best interests of the corporation, and provided further that (unless a court of competent jurisdiction otherwise provides) such person shall not have been adjudged liable to the corporation. Any such indemnification may be made only as
      authorized in each specific case upon a determination by the shareholders or disinterested directors or by independent legal counsel in a written opinion that indemnification is proper because the indemnitee has met the applicable standard of
      conduct.</div>
    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;">Any such indemnification and advancement of expenses provided under Section 145 shall continue as to a person who has ceased to be a director, officer, employee or agent and
      shall inure to the benefit of such person's heirs, executors and administrators.</div>
    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;">Section 145 further authorizes a corporation to purchase and maintain insurance on behalf of any person who is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of the corporation,
      or is or was serving at the request of the corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation or enterprise, against any liability asserted against him, and incurred by him in any such capacity, or arising out of his status
      as such, whether or not the corporation would otherwise have the power to indemnify him under Section 145.</div>
    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;">In accordance with the DGCL (being Chapter 1 of Title 8 of the Delaware Code), Articles 9 and 10 of the Company&#8217;s Certificate of Incorporation provide as follows:</div>
    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;">NINTH:</div>
    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;">A.<font style="display: inline-block; text-indent: 0px; font-size: 1px; width: 36pt" id="TRGRRTFtoHTMLTab">&#160;</font>Each person who was or is made a party or is threatened to be
      made a party to or is otherwise involved in any action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (hereinafter a &#8220;proceeding&#8221;), by reason of the fact that he or she is or was a Director or an Officer of the
      Corporation or is or was serving at the request of the Corporation as a Director, Officer, employee or agent of another corporation or of a partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, including service with respect to an employee benefit
      plan (hereinafter an &#8220;indemnitee&#8221;), whether the basis of such proceeding is alleged action in an official capacity as a Director, Officer, employee or agent or in any other capacity while serving as a Director, Officer, employee or agent, shall be
      indemnified and held harmless by the Corporation to the fullest extent authorized by the Delaware General Corporation Law, as the same exists or may hereafter be amended (but, in the case of any such amendment, only to the extent that such amendment
      permits the Corporation to provide broader indemnification rights than such law permitted the Corporation to provide prior to such amendment), against all expense, liability and loss (including attorneys&#8217; fees, judgments, fines, ERISA excise taxes or
      penalties and amounts paid in settlement) reasonably incurred or suffered by such indemnitee in connection therewith; provided, however, that, except as provided in Section C hereof with respect to proceedings to enforce rights to indemnification,
      the Corporation shall indemnify</div>
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    <div style="text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 12pt;">any such indemnitee in connection with a proceeding (or part thereof) initiated by such indemnitee only if such proceeding (or part thereof) was authorized by the Board of Directors of the
      Corporation.</div>
    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;">B.<font style="display: inline-block; text-indent: 0px; font-size: 1px; width: 36pt" id="TRGRRTFtoHTMLTab">&#160;</font>The right to indemnification conferred in Section A of this
      Article NINTH shall include the right to be paid by the Corporation the expenses incurred in defending any such proceeding in advance of its final disposition (hereinafter an &#8220;advancement of expenses&#8221;); provided, however, that, if the Delaware
      General Corporation Law requires an advancement of expenses incurred by an indemnitee in his or her capacity as a Director of Officer (and not in any other capacity in which service was or is rendered by such indemnitee, including, without
      limitation, service to an employee benefit plan), indemnification shall be made only upon delivery to the Corporation of an undertaking (hereinafter an &#8220;undertaking&#8221;), by or on behalf of such indemnitee, to repay all amounts so advanced if it shall
      ultimately be determined by final judicial decision from which there is no further right to appeal (hereinafter a &#8220;final adjudication&#8221;) that such indemnitee is not entitled to be indemnified for such expenses under this Section or otherwise.&#160; The
      rights to indemnification and to the advancement of expenses conferred in Sections A and B of this Article NINTH shall be contract rights and such rights shall continue as to an indemnitee who has ceased to be a Director, Officer, employee or agent
      and shall inure to the benefit of the indemnitee&#8217;s heirs, executors and administrators.</div>
    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;">C.<font style="display: inline-block; text-indent: 0px; font-size: 1px; width: 36pt" id="TRGRRTFtoHTMLTab">&#160;</font>If a claim under Section A or B of this Article NINTH is not
      paid in full by the Corporation within sixty days after a written claim has been received by the Corporation, except in the case of a claim for an advancement of expenses, in which case the applicable period shall be twenty days, the indemnitee may
      at any time thereafter bring suit against the Corporation to recover the unpaid amount of the claim.&#160; If successful in whole or in part in any such suit, or in a suit brought by the Corporation to recover an advancement of expenses pursuant to the
      terms of an undertaking, the indemnitee also shall be entitled to be paid the expense of prosecuting or defending such suit.&#160; In (i) any suit brought by the indemnitee to enforce a right to indemnification hereunder (but not in a suit brought by the
      indemnitee to enforce a right to an advancement of expenses) it shall be a defense that, and (ii) in any suit by the Corporation to recover an advancement of expenses pursuant to the terms of an undertaking the Corporation shall be entitled to
      recover such expenses upon a final adjudication that, the indemnitee has not met any applicable standard for indemnification set forth in the Delaware General Corporation Law.&#160; Neither the failure of the Corporation (including its Board of Directors,
      independent legal counsel, or its stockholders) to have made a determination prior to the commencement of such suit that indemnification of the indemnitee is proper in the circumstances because the indemnitee has met the applicable standard of
      conduct set forth in the Delaware General Corporation Law, nor an actual determination by the Corporation (including its Board of Directors, independent legal counsel, or its stockholders) that the indemnitee has not met such applicable standard of
      conduct, shall create a presumption that the indemnitee has not met the applicable standard of conduct or, in the case of such a suit brought by the indemnitee, be a defense to such suit.&#160; In any suit brought by the indemnitee to enforce a right to
      indemnification or to an advancement of expenses hereunder, or by the Corporation to recover an advancement of expenses pursuant to the terms of an undertaking, the burden of proving that the indemnitee is not entitled to be indemnified, or to such
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Registration No. 333-_________
As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 29, 2022
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C.  20549
_________________________
FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
Blue Foundry Bancorp
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)
Delaware
86-2831373
(State or Other Jurisdiction of
(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)
Incorporation or Organization)
19 Park Avenue
Rutherford, New Jersey 07070
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)
Blue Foundry Bancorp 2022 Equity Incentive Plan
(Full Title of the Plan)
Copies to:
James D. Nesci
John G. Gorman, Esq.
President and Chief Executive Officer
Thomas P. Hutton, Esq.
Blue Foundry Bancorp
Luse Gorman, PC
19 Park Avenue
5335 Wisconsin Ave., N.W., Suite 780
Rutherford, New Jersey 07070
Washington, DC 20015-2035
(201) 939-5000
(202) 274-2000
(Name, Address and Telephone
Number of Agent for Service)
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, smaller reporting company, or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of "large
      accelerated filer," "accelerated filer," "smaller reporting company" and "emerging growth company" in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act:
Large accelerated filer ☐
Accelerated filer ☐
Non-accelerated filer  ⌧
Smaller reporting company⌧
Emerging growth company ⌧
If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to
      Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act. ☐
PART I.
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS
Items 1 and 2.
Plan Information; and Registrant Information and Employee Plan Annual Information
The documents containing the information specified in Part I of Form S-8 have been or will be sent or given to participants in the Blue Foundry Bancorp 2022 Equity Incentive Plan
      (the "Plan") as specified by Rule 428(b)(1) promulgated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act").
Such documents are not being filed with the Commission but constitute (along with the documents incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement pursuant to Item 3 of
      Part II hereof) a prospectus that meets the requirements of Section 10(a) of the Securities Act.
PART II.
INFORMATION

        REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
Item 3.
Incorporation

        of Documents by Reference
The following documents previously filed by Blue Foundry Bancorp (the "Company") with the Commission under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"),
      are incorporated herein by reference (other than any such documents or portions thereof that are furnished under Item 2.02 or Item 7.01 of Form 8-K, unless otherwise indicated therein, including any exhibits included with such Items):
(a)
The Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31,
      2021 filed with the Commission on
March 14, 2022
(File No. 001-40619), pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act (including information
      specifically incorporated by reference therein from the Company's definitive proxy statement on Schedule 14A, filed with the Commission on
July 18,
        2022
);
(b)
The Company's Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarter
      ended March 31, 2022, filed with the Commission on
May 13, 2022
and for the quarter ended June 30, 2022, filed with the Commission on
August 12, 2022
(File No. for all 001-40619);
(c)
The Company's Current Reports on Form 8-K filed on
January 12, 2022
;
April 13, 2022
;
April 13, 2022
;
April 25, 2022
;
May 24, 2022
;
June 24, 2022
;
July 6, 2022
;
July 20, 2022
;
      and
August 25, 2022
(File No. for all 001-40619); and
(d)
The description of the Company's common stock contained in the Registration
      Statement on Form 8-A filed with the Commission on
July 15, 2021
(File No. 001-40619), including any subsequent amendments or reports filed for the
      purpose of updating such description.
All documents subsequently filed by the Company with the Commission pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14, or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, after the date hereof, and prior to the
      filing of a post-effective amendment which indicates that all securities offered hereby have been sold or which deregisters all securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement and to be a
      part thereof from the date of the filing of such documents.
Any statement contained in the documents incorporated, or deemed to be incorporated, by reference herein or therein shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes of
      this Registration Statement and the prospectus to the extent that a statement contained herein or therein or in any other subsequently filed document which also is, or is deemed to be, incorporated by reference herein or therein modifies or
      supersedes such statement.  Any such statement so modified or superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded, to constitute a part of this Registration Statement and the prospectus.
All information appearing in this Registration Statement and the prospectus is qualified in its entirety by the detailed information, including financial statements, appearing in
      the documents incorporated herein or therein by reference.
2
Item 4.  Description of Securities
Not applicable.
Item 5.  Interests of Named Experts and Counsel
None.
Item 6.  Indemnification of Directors and Officers
Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law ("DGCL"), inter alia, empowers a Delaware corporation to indemnify any person who was or is a party or is threatened to be
      made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (other than an action by or in the right of the corporation), by reason of the fact that such person is or was a
      director, officer, employee or agent of the corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, or other enterprise, against expenses (including attorneys' fees),
      judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by the person in connection with such action, suit or proceeding if the person acted in good faith and in a manner the person reasonably believed to be in or not opposed
      to the best interests of the corporation, and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe the person's conduct was unlawful. Similar indemnity is authorized for such person against expenses (including
      attorneys' fees) actually and reasonably incurred in connection with the defense or settlement of any such threatened, pending or completed action or suit if such person acted in good faith and in a manner he reasonably believed to be in or not
      opposed to the best interests of the corporation, and provided further that (unless a court of competent jurisdiction otherwise provides) such person shall not have been adjudged liable to the corporation. Any such indemnification may be made only as
      authorized in each specific case upon a determination by the shareholders or disinterested directors or by independent legal counsel in a written opinion that indemnification is proper because the indemnitee has met the applicable standard of
      conduct.
Any such indemnification and advancement of expenses provided under Section 145 shall continue as to a person who has ceased to be a director, officer, employee or agent and
      shall inure to the benefit of such person's heirs, executors and administrators.
Section 145 further authorizes a corporation to purchase and maintain insurance on behalf of any person who is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of the corporation,
      or is or was serving at the request of the corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation or enterprise, against any liability asserted against him, and incurred by him in any such capacity, or arising out of his status
      as such, whether or not the corporation would otherwise have the power to indemnify him under Section 145.
In accordance with the DGCL (being Chapter 1 of Title 8 of the Delaware Code), Articles 9 and 10 of the Company's Certificate of Incorporation provide as follows:
NINTH:
A.
Each person who was or is made a party or is threatened to be
      made a party to or is otherwise involved in any action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (hereinafter a "proceeding"), by reason of the fact that he or she is or was a Director or an Officer of the
      Corporation or is or was serving at the request of the Corporation as a Director, Officer, employee or agent of another corporation or of a partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, including service with respect to an employee benefit
      plan (hereinafter an "indemnitee"), whether the basis of such proceeding is alleged action in an official capacity as a Director, Officer, employee or agent or in any other capacity while serving as a Director, Officer, employee or agent, shall be
      indemnified and held harmless by the Corporation to the fullest extent authorized by the Delaware General Corporation Law, as the same exists or may hereafter be amended (but, in the case of any such amendment, only to the extent that such amendment
      permits the Corporation to provide broader indemnification rights than such law permitted the Corporation to provide prior to such amendment), against all expense, liability and loss (including attorneys' fees, judgments, fines, ERISA excise taxes or
      penalties and amounts paid in settlement) reasonably incurred or suffered by such indemnitee in connection therewith; provided, however, that, except as provided in Section C hereof with respect to proceedings to enforce rights to indemnification,
      the Corporation shall indemnify
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any such indemnitee in connection with a proceeding (or part thereof) initiated by such indemnitee only if such proceeding (or part thereof) was authorized by the Board of Directors of the
      Corporation.
B.
The right to indemnification conferred in Section A of this
      Article NINTH shall include the right to be paid by the Corporation the expenses incurred in defending any such proceeding in advance of its final disposition (hereinafter an "advancement of expenses"); provided, however, that, if the Delaware
      General Corporation Law requires an advancement of expenses incurred by an indemnitee in his or her capacity as a Director of Officer (and not in any other capacity in which service was or is rendered by such indemnitee, including, without
      limitation, service to an employee benefit plan), indemnification shall be made only upon delivery to the Corporation of an undertaking (hereinafter an "undertaking"), by or on behalf of such indemnitee, to repay all amounts so advanced if it shall
      ultimately be determined by final judicial decision from which there is no further right to appeal (hereinafter a "final adjudication") that such indemnitee is not entitled to be indemnified for such expenses under this Section or otherwise.  The
      rights to indemnification and to the advancement of expenses conferred in Sections A and B of this Article NINTH shall be contract rights and such rights shall continue as to an indemnitee who has ceased to be a Director, Officer, employee or agent
      and shall inure to the benefit of the indemnitee's heirs, executors and administrators.
C.
If a claim under Section A or B of this Article NINTH is not
      paid in full by the Corporation within sixty days after a written claim has been received by the Corporation, except in the case of a claim for an advancement of expenses, in which case the applicable period shall be twenty days, the indemnitee may
      at any time thereafter bring suit against the Corporation to recover the unpaid amount of the claim.  If successful in whole or in part in any such suit, or in a suit brought by the Corporation to recover an advancement of expenses pursuant to the
      terms of an undertaking, the indemnitee also shall be entitled to be paid the expense of prosecuting or defending such suit.  In (i) any suit brought by the indemnitee to enforce a right to indemnification hereunder (but not in a suit brought by the
      indemnitee to enforce a right to an advancement of expenses) it shall be a defense that, and (ii) in any suit by the Corporation to recover an advancement of expenses pursuant to the terms of an undertaking the Corporation shall be entitled to
      recover such expenses upon a final adjudication that, the indemnitee has not met any applicable standard for indemnification set forth in the Delaware General Corporation Law.  Neither the failure of the Corporation (including its Board of Directors,
      independent legal counsel, or its stockholders) to have made a determination prior to the commencement of such suit that indemnification of the indemnitee is proper in the circumstances because the indemnitee has met the applicable standard of
      conduct set forth in the Delaware General Corporation Law, nor an actual determination by the Corporation (including its Board of Directors, independent legal counsel, or its stockholders) that the indemnitee has not met such applicable standard of
      conduct, shall create a presumption that the indemnitee has not met the applicable standard of conduct or, in the case of such a suit brought by the indemnitee, be a defense to such suit.  In any suit brought by the indemnitee to enforce a right to
      indemnification or to an advancement of expenses hereunder, or by the Corporation to recover an advancement of expenses pursuant to the terms of an undertaking, the burden of proving that the indemnitee is not entitled to be indemnified, or to such
      advancement of expenses, under this Article NINTH or otherwise shall be on the Corporation.
D.
The rights to indemnification and to the advancement of
      expenses conferred in this Article NINTH shall not be exclusive of any other right which any person may have or hereafter acquire under any statute, the Corporation's Certificate of Incorporation, Bylaws, agreement, vote of stockholders or
      disinterested Directors, or otherwise.
E.
The Corporation may maintain insurance, at its expense, to
      protect itself and any Director, Officer, employee or agent of the Corporation or another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise against any expense, liability or loss, whether or not the Corporation would have the power
      to indemnify such person against such expense, liability or loss under the Delaware General Corporation Law.
F.
The Corporation may, to the extent authorized from time to time
      by the Board of Directors, grant rights to indemnification and to the advancement of expenses to any employee or agent of the Corporation to the fullest extent of the provisions of this Article NINTH with respect to the indemnification and
      advancement of expenses of Directors and Officers of the Corporation.
TENTH:  A Director of this Corporation shall not be personally liable to the Corporation or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a Director,
      except for liability (i) for any breach of the Director's duty of loyalty to the Corporation or its stockholders, (ii) for acts or omissions not in good faith or which
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involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law, (iii) under Section 174 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, or (iv) for any transaction from which the Director derived an
      improper personal benefit.  If the Delaware General Corporation Law is amended to authorize corporate action further eliminating or limiting the personal liability of Directors, then the liability of a Director of the Corporation shall be eliminated
      or limited to the fullest extent permitted by the Delaware General Corporation Law, as so amended.
Any repeal or modification of the foregoing paragraph by the stockholders of the Corporation shall not adversely affect any right or protection of a Director of the Corporation
      existing at the time of such repeal or modification.
Item 7.  Exemption From Registration Claimed.
Not applicable.
Item 8.  List of Exhibits.
Regulation S-K
Exhibit Number
Document
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Form of Common Stock Certificate (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4 to the Registration Statement on Form S-1
                (File No. 333-254079) originally filed by the Company under the Securities Act with the Commission on March 10, 2021, and all amendments or reports filed for the purpose of updating such description)
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Opinion of Luse Gorman, PC
10.1
Blue Foundry Bancorp 2022 Equity Incentive Plan (incorporated by reference to Appendix A to the proxy statement for the Annual Meeting of
                Stockholders of Blue Foundry Bancorp, filed under the Exchange Act on July 18, 2022 (File No. 001-40619))
10.2
Form of Restricted Stock Award Agreement
10.3
Form of Incentive Stock Option Award Agreement
10.4
Form of Non-Qualified Stock Option Award Agreement
23.1
Consent of Luse Gorman, PC (contained in Exhibit 5)
23.2
Consent of Crowe LLP (Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm)
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Power of Attorney (contained on signature page)
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Filing Fee Table
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Item 9.
Undertakings
The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes:
1.
To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being
      made, a post-effective amendment to the Registration Statement:
(i)
to include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of the
      Securities Act;
(ii)
to reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising
      after the effective date of the registration statement (or the most recent post-effective amendment thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the information set forth in the registration statement. 
      Notwithstanding the foregoing, any increase or decrease in volume of securities offered (if the total dollar value of securities offered would not exceed that which was registered) and any deviation from the low or high end of the estimated maximum
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offering range may be reflected in the form of prospectus filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) (section 230.424(b)) if, in the aggregate, the changes in volume and price represent no
      more than 20% change in the maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the "Calculation of Registration Fees" table in the effective registration statement;
(iii)
to include any material information with respect to the plan
      of distribution not previously disclosed in this Registration Statement or any material change to such information in this Registration Statement;
provided, however, that paragraphs 1(i) and 1(ii) above do not apply if the information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by these paragraphs is contained in
      reports filed with or furnished to the Commission by the Company pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act that are incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement;
2.
That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the
      Securities Act, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial
bona fide
offering thereof;
3.
To remove from registration by means of a post-effective
      amendment any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of the offering;
4.
That, for purposes of determining any liability under the
      Securities Act, each filing of the registrant's annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act that is incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the
      securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial
bona fide
offering thereof; and
5.
Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the
      Securities Act may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Commission such indemnification is against
      public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is, therefore, unenforceable.  In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer
      or controlling person of the registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the registrant will, unless in the
      opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be
      governed by the final adjudication of such issue.
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SIGNATURES
The Registrant.
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to
      believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration Statement on Form S-8 to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the Township of Rutherford, New Jersey, on
      this 29
th
day of August, 2022.
BLUE FOUNDRY BANCORP
By:
/s/ James D. Nesci
James D. Nesci
President and Chief Executive Officer
(Duly Authorized Representative)
POWER OF ATTORNEY
We, the undersigned directors and officers of Blue Foundry Bancorp (the "Company") hereby severally constitute and appoint James D. Nesci, as our true and lawful attorney and
      agent, to do any and all things in our names in the capacities indicated below which said James D. Nesci may deem necessary or advisable to enable the Company to comply with the Securities Act of 1933, and any rules, regulations and requirements of
      the Securities and Exchange Commission, in connection with the registration of shares of common stock to be granted and shares of common stock to be issued upon the exercise of stock options to be granted under the Blue Foundry Bancorp 2022 Equity
      Incentive Plan, including specifically, but not limited to, power and authority to sign for us in our names in the capacities indicated below the registration statement and any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments) thereto; and we
      hereby approve, ratify and confirm all that said James D. Nesci shall do or cause to be done by virtue thereof.
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement on Form S-8 has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the date
      indicated.
Signatures
Title
Date
/s/ James D. Nesci
Director, President & Chief Executive
August 29, 2022
James D. Nesci
Officer (Principal Executive Officer)
/s/ Kelly Pecoraro
Executive Vice President & Chief
August 29, 2022
Kelly Pecoraro
Financial Officer (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)
/s/ Kenneth Grimbilas
Chairman of the Board
August 29, 2022
Kenneth Grimbilas
/s/ J. Christopher Ely
Director
J. Christopher Ely
August 29, 2022
/s/ Robert T. Goldstein
Director
August 29, 2022
Robert T. Goldstein
/s/ Patrick H. Kinzler
Director
August 29, 2022
Patrick H. Kinzler
/s/ Mirella Lang
Director
August 29, 2022
Mirella Lang
/s/ Margaret Letsche
Director
August 29, 2022
Margaret Letsche
/s/ Jonathan M. Shaw
Director
August 29, 2022
Jonathan M. Shaw