# EDGAR Filing Document

**Accession Number:** 0000846617
**File Stem:** 0000846617-23-000002
**Filing Date:** 2023-1
**Character Count:** 6077
**Document Hash:** 4cbf948e891e868cfb5ca49075686f8e
**Contains OCR:** False
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## Filing Content

## Filing Summary
**0000846617-23-000002.hdr.sgml**: 20230126

**ACCESSION NUMBER**: 0000846617-23-000002

**CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE**: 8-K

**PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT**: 14

**CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT**: 20230126

**ITEM INFORMATION**: Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers: Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers

**ITEM INFORMATION**: Financial Statements and Exhibits

**FILED AS OF DATE**: 20230126

**DATE AS OF CHANGE**: 20230126

**FILER**: 

**COMPANY DATA:**
- **COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:** Dime Community Bancshares, Inc. /NY/
- **CENTRAL INDEX KEY:** 0000846617
- **STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:** NATIONAL COMMERCIAL BANKS [6021]
- **IRS NUMBER:** 112934195
- **STATE OF INCORPORATION:** NY
- **FISCAL YEAR END:** 1231

**FILING VALUES:**
- **FORM TYPE:** 8-K
- **SEC ACT:** 1934 Act
- **SEC FILE NUMBER:** 001-34096
- **FILM NUMBER:** 23557013

**BUSINESS ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 898 VETERANS MEMORIAL HIGHWAY
- **STREET 2:** SUITE 560
- **CITY:** HAUPPAUGE
- **STATE:** NY
- **ZIP:** 11788
- **BUSINESS PHONE:** 6315371000

**MAIL ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 898 VETERANS MEMORIAL HIGHWAY
- **STREET 2:** SUITE 560
- **CITY:** HAUPPAUGE
- **STATE:** NY
- **ZIP:** 11788

**FORMER COMPANY:**
- **FORMER CONFORMED NAME:** BRIDGE BANCORP, INC.
- **DATE OF NAME CHANGE:** 20190819

**FORMER COMPANY:**
- **FORMER CONFORMED NAME:** BRIDGE BANCORP INC
- **DATE OF NAME CHANGE:** 19940715

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**UNITED STATES**

**SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION**

**Washington, D.C. 20549**

**FORM 8-K**

**CURRENT REPORT**

**PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE**

**SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934**

**Date of report (Date of earliest event reported): January 26, 2023**

**DIME COMMUNITY BANCSHARES, INC.**

**(Exact name of the registrant as specified in its charter)**

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| **New York** | **001-34096** | **11-2934195** |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;**(State or other jurisdiction of**<br>**incorporation or organization)** | **(Commission File Number)** | &nbsp;&nbsp;**(IRS Employer**<br>**Identification No.)** |

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| **898 Veterans Memorial Highway, Suite 560** |  |
| **Hauppauge, New York** | **11788** |
| **(Address of principal executive offices)** | **(Zip Code)** |

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**(631) 537-1000**

**(Registrant's telephone number)**

**N/A**

**(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)**

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (See General Instruction A.2. below):

☐ Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)

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☐ Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4c)

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

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| **Title of each class** | **Trading**<br>**Symbol(s)** | **Name of each exchange on which registered** |
| Common Stock, $0.01 Par Value | DCOM | The Nasdaq Stock Market, LLC |
| Preferred Stock, Series A, $0.01 Par Value | DCOMP | The Nasdaq Stock Market, LLC |

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Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (17 CFR §230.405) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (17 CFR §240.12b-2).

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 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ◻

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#### Item 5.02&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.
(c) On January 26, 2023, Avinash Reddy, Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Dime Community Bancshares, Inc. (the "Company"), was appointed to the additional position of principal accounting officer of the Company. Mr. Reddy replaces Leslie Veluswamy, who previously resigned as principal accounting officer of the Company. Mr. Reddy's biographical information is set forth in the Company's Schedule 14A filed by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 15, 2022 , and such information is incorporated herein by reference. There are no arrangements or understandings between Mr. Reddy and any other persons pursuant to which he became the Company's principal accounting officer. There is no family relationship between Mr. Reddy and any director, executive officer, or person nominated or chosen by the Company to become a director or executive officer of the Company. The Company has not entered into any transactions with Mr. Reddy that would require disclosure pursuant to Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. No new compensatory arrangements have been entered into with Mr. Reddy in connection with his appointment as the Company's principal accounting officer.

#### Item 9.01&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Financial Statements and Exhibits
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(d) Exhibits

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| 104 | Cover Page Interactive Data File (formatted as inline XBRL) |

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#### SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, hereunto duly authorized.

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|  | Dime Community Bancshares, Inc.<br>(Registrant) |
| DATE: January 26, 2023 | /s/ PATRICIA M. SCHAUBECK |
|  | Patricia M. Schaubeck |
|  | Executive Vice President & General Counsel <br>|

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