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Section 16. Form
4 or Form 5 ANNUAL STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP
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continue. See Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities
Instruction 1(b) Exchange Act of 1934,
/ / Form 3 Holdings Section 17(a) of the Public Utility
Reported Holding Company Act of 1935 or Section 30(f) of
/ / Form 4 the Investment Company Act
Transactions of 1940
Reported
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1. Name and Address of Reporting Person 2. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol 6. Relationship of Reporting Person(s)
VARONE LOUIS V. DIME COMMUNITY BANCSHARES, INC.("DCOM") to Issuer (Check all applicable)
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(Last) (First) (Middle) 3. IRS or Social Security 4. Statement for ---- ---
Number of Reporting Month/Year Officer (give Other (Specify
209 HAVEMEYER STREET Person (Voluntary) June, 2001 ---- title --- below)
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(Street) 5. If Amendment, 7. Individual or Joint/Group Filing
Date of Original X Form filed by One Reporting
BROOKLYN NEW YORK 11211 (Month/Year) Person
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(City) (State) (Zip)
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TABLE 1 -- NON-DERIVATIVE SECURITIES ACQUIRED, DISPOSED OF, OR BENEFICIALLY OWNED
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1. Title of Security 2. Trans- 3. Transac- 4. Securities Acquired (A) 5. Amount of Se- 6. Owner- 7. Nature
(Instr. 3) action tion or Disposed of (D) curities Benefi- ship of In-
Date Code (Instr. 3, 4 and 5) cially Owned at Form: direct
(Instr. 8) End of Issuer's Direct Benefi-
(Month/ Fiscal Year (D) or cial
Day/ ---------------------------------------- (Instr. 3 and 4) Indirect Owner-
Year) Code V Amount (A) or Price (I) ship
(D) (Instr. 4) (Instr.4)
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COMMON STOCK 2/01/01 J 3,174 A 29,696 D
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COMMON STOCK 2/01/01 J 3,174 D 3,174 I RRP Trust
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Reminder: Report on a separate line for each class of securities beneficially
owned directly or indirectly. (Over)
FORM 5 (continued) TABLE II -- DERIVATIVE SECURITIES ACQUIRED, DISPOSED OF, OR BENEFICIALLY OWNED
(E.G., PUTS, CALLS, WARRANTS, OPTIONS, CONVERTIBLE SECURITIES)
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1. Title of Derivative 2. Conver- 3. Trans- 4. Trans- 5. Number of 6. Date Exer- 7. Title and Amount 8. Price
Security sion or action action Derivative cisable and of Underlying of
(Instr. 3) Exercise Date Code Securities Ac- Expiration Securities Deriv-
Price of (Month/ (Instr. 8) quired (A) or Date (Instr. 3 and 4) ative
Deriv- Day/ Disposed of (D) (Month/Day/ Secur-
ative Year) (Instr. 3, 4, Year) ity
Security and 5) (Instr. 5)
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(A) (D) Date Expira- Title Amount or
Exer- tion Number of
cisable Date Shares
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STOCK OPTIONS $14.50
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1. Title of Derivative 9. Number of 10. Ownership 11. Nature of
Security Derivative of Derivative Indirect
(Instr. 3) Securities Security: Beneficial
Beneficially Direct (D) Ownership
Owned at End or Indirect (I) (Instr. 4)
of Year (Instr. 4)
(Instr. 4)
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STOCK OPTIONS 39,675 I STOCK OPTION PLAN
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Explanation of Responses:
Vesting of a portion of the 15,870 shares acquired on February 1, 1997 pursuant to the
Recognition and Retention Plan for Outside Directors, Officers and Employees of
Dime Community Bancshares, Inc.
/s/ LOUIS V. VARONE August 9, 2001
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**Signature of Reporting Person Date
By: Louis V. Varone
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