Company: NECB
Filing Date: 2025-04-11
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-034190
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Company: NorthEast Community Bancorp, Inc./MD/
Filing Date: 2025-04-11
Form: DEF 14A
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SCHEDULE 14AINFORMATION Proxy Statement Pursuant to Section 14(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (Amendment No. ___) Filed by the Registrant ☒ Filed by a Party other than the Registrant ☐ Check the appropriate box:

| ☐ | Preliminary Proxy Statement                  |
| ☐ | Confidential, for Use of the Commission Only 
 (as permitted by Rule 14a-6(e)(2))           |
| ☒ | Definitive Proxy Statement                   |
| ☐ | Definitive Additional Materials              |
| ☐ | Soliciting Material pursuant to §240.14a-12  |

NORTHEAST COMMUNITY BANCORP, INC. (Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter) (Name of Person(s) Filing Proxy Statement, if other than the Registrant) Payment of Filing Fee (Check the appropriate box):

| ☒ | No                                                                   
 fee required.                                                        |
| ☐ | Fee paid previously with preliminary materials.                      |
| ☐ | Fee computed on table in exhibit required by Item 25(b) per Exchange 
 Act Rules 14a-6(i)(1) and 0-11.                                      |

April 11, 2025 Dear Stockholder: You are cordially invited to attend the annual meeting of stockholders of NorthEast Community Bancorp, Inc. (the “Company”). The annual meeting will be conducted solely online via live webcast on Thursday, May 22, 2025 at 9:00 a.m., local time. The notice of annual meeting and proxy statement appearing on the following pages describe the formal business to be transacted at the meeting. Directors and officers of the Company, as well as a representative of S.R. Snodgrass, P.C., the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm, will be present to respond to appropriate questions of stockholders. It is important that your shares are represented at this meeting, whether or not you attend the meeting in person and regardless of the number of shares you own. To make sure your shares are represented, we urge you to vote online or via telephone or to complete and mail a proxy card. You can revoke a proxy at any time before its exercise at the meeting by following the instructions in the proxy statement.

| Sincerely,                           |
| Kenneth A. Martinek                  |
| Chairman and Chief Executive Officer |

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