FORM 3 UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
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INITIAL STATEMENT OF BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP OF SECURITIES hours per response.......0.5
Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
Section 17(a) of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 or
Section 30(f) of the Investment Company Act of 1940
(Print or Type Responses)
1. Name and Address of Reporting Person* 2. Date of Event Requiring 4. Issuer Name AND Ticker or Trading
Statement (Month/Day/Year) Symbol
(Check all applicable)
FRITSKY SAMUEL January 1, 2001 DIME COMMUNITY BANCSHARES, INC.
(Last) (First) (Middle) ("DCOM")
5. Relationship of Reporting
Person(s) to Issuer
(Check all applicable)
Director 10% Owner
X Officer (give Other (specify
title below)
below)
3. IRS or
Social Security Senior Vice President - Marketing
Number of
209 HAVEMEYER STREET Reporting
Person (Voluntary)
(Street) 6. If Amendment, 7. Individual or Joint/Group Filing
Date of Original (Check Applicable Line)
BROOKLYN NY 11211 (Month/Year) X Form filed by One Reporting Person
(City) (State) (Zip) Form filed by More than One
Reporting Person
TABLE I NON-DERIVATIVE SECURITIES BENEFICIALLY OWNED
1. Title of Security 2. Amount of 3. Ownership 4. Nature of
(Instr. 4) Securities Form: Indirect
Beneficially Direct (D) Beneficial
Owned or Indirect Ownership
(Instr. 4) (I)(Inst. 5) (Instr. 5)
None.
Reminder: Report on a separate line for each class of securities beneficially
owned directly or indirectly.
* If the form is filed by more than one reporting person, see Instruction 5(b)(v). (Over)
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TABLE II DERIVATIVE SECURITIES BENEFICIALLY OWNED (e.g., puts, calls warrants, options, convertible securities)
1.Title 2.Date Ex- 3.Title 4.Conversion 5.Owner- 6. Nature of
of Deriv- ercisable and Amount or Exercise ship Indirect
ative Secu- and Ex- of Securities Price of Form Benefi-
rity piration Underlying Derivative of cial
(Instr. 4) Date Derivative Security Deri- Owner-
(Month/ Security vative ship
Day/ (Instr. 4) Secu- (Instr.5)
Year) rity
Direct
(D) or
Indirect
(I)
(Instr. 5)
NONE.
Date Expira- Title Amount or
Exer- tion Number of
cisable Date Shares
Explanation of Responses:
**Intentional misstatements
or omissions of facts
constitute Federal Criminal
Violations.
SEE 18 U.S.C. 1001
and 15 U.S.C. 78ff(a). /s/SAMUEL FRITSKY January 30, 2001
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**Signature of Reporting Date
Note: File three copies of Person
this Form, one of
which must be By: Samuel Fritsky
manually signed. If
space provided is
insufficient, SEE
Instruction 6 for
procedure.
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