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                                                                Exhibit 4(m)(ii)

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                               GUARANTEE AGREEMENT

                                     between

                        New York Community Bancorp, Inc.,
                                  as Guarantor

                                       and

                            Wilmington Trust Company,
                              as Guarantee Trustee

                          Dated as of ____________, 2002

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                               TABLE OF CONTENTS

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Article I        DEFINITIONS AND INTERPRETATION ............................................      1

         Section 1.1.    Interpretation ....................................................      1

         Section 1.2.    Definitions .......................................................      2

Article II       TRUST INDENTURE ACT .......................................................      6

         Section 2.1.    Trust Indenture Act, Application ..................................      6

         Section 2.2.    Lists of Holders of Securities ....................................      6

         Section 2.3.    Reports by the Guarantee Trustee ..................................      6

         Section 2.4.    Periodic Reports to the Guarantee Trustee .........................      7

         Section 2.5.    Evidence of Compliance with Conditions Precedent ..................      7

         Section 2.6.    Events of Default; Waiver .........................................      7

         Section 2.7.    Event of Default; Notice ..........................................      7

         Section 2.8.    Conflicting Interests .............................................      8

         Section 2.9.    Disclosure of Information .........................................      8

         Section 2.10.   Guarantee Trustee May File Proofs of Claim ........................      8

Article III      POWERS, DUTIES AND RIGHTS OF GUARANTEE TRUSTEE ............................      8

         Section 3.1.    Powers and Duties of the Guarantee Trustee ........................      8

         Section 3.2.    Certain Rights of Guarantee Trustee ...............................     10

         Section 3.3.    Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Guarantee .............     12

Article IV       GUARANTEE TRUSTEE .........................................................     12

         Section 4.1.    Guarantee Trustee: Eligibility ....................................     12

         Section 4.2.    Appointment, Removal and Resignation of Guarantee Trustee .........     13

Article V        GUARANTEE .................................................................     14

         Section 5.1.    Guarantee .........................................................     14

         Section 5.2.    Waiver of Notice and Demand .......................................     14

         Section 5.3.    Obligations Not Affected ..........................................     14

         Section 5.4.    Rights of Holders .................................................     15

         Section 5.5.    Guarantee of Payment ..............................................     16

         Section 5.6.    Subrogation .......................................................     16

         Section 5.7.    Independent Obligations ...........................................     16

Article VI       LIMITATION OF TRANSACTIONS; SUBORDINATION .................................     17

         Section 6.1.    Limitation of Transactions ........................................     17
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        Section 6.2.    Ranking ............................................................     18

Article VII     TERMINATION ................................................................     18

        Section 7.1.    Termination ........................................................     18

Article VIII    INDEMNIFICATION ............................................................     19

        Section 8.1.    Exculpation ........................................................     19

        Section 8.2.    Indemnification ....................................................     19

Article IX      MISCELLANEOUS ..............................................................     20

        Section 9.1.    Successors and Assigns .............................................     20

        Section 9.2.    Amendments .........................................................     20

        Section 9.3.    Notices ............................................................     20

        Section 9.4.    Benefit ............................................................     21

        Section 9.5.    Governing Law ......................................................     21

        Section 9.6.    Counterparts .......................................................     21
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               This GUARANTEE AGREEMENT (the "Guarantee"), dated as of
________, 2002, is executed and delivered by New York Community Bancorp, Inc., a
Delaware corporation (the "Guarantor"), and Wilmington Trust Company, as trustee
(the "Guarantee Trustee"), for the benefit of the Holders (as defined herein)
from time to time of the Securities (as defined herein) of New York Community
Capital Trust V, a Delaware statutory trust (the "Issuer").

               WHEREAS, pursuant to an Amended and Restated Declaration of Trust
(the "Declaration"), dated as of __________, 2002, among the Guarantor, as
Sponsor, Joseph R. Ficalora, Robert Wann and Thomas R. Cangemi, as the initial
Administrative Trustees, Wilmington Trust Company, as the initial Property
Trustee, and Wilmington Trust Company, as the initial Delaware Trustee, the
Issuer is issuing on the date hereof 5,500,000 preferred securities, stated
liquidation amount of $50 per preferred security, having an aggregate stated
liquidation amount of $275,000,000, such preferred securities being designated
the Preferred Securities (the "Preferred Securities") and 170,104 common
securities, stated liquidation amount of $50 per common security, having an
aggregate stated liquidation amount of $8,505,200, such common securities being
designated the Common Securities (the "Common Securities" and, together with the
Preferred Securities, the "Securities"); and

               WHEREAS, as incentive for the Holders to purchase the Securities,
the Guarantor desires irrevocably and unconditionally to agree, to the extent
set forth in this Guarantee, to pay in full to the Holders the Guarantee
Payments (as defined below) and to make certain other payments on the terms and
conditions set forth herein.

               NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the purchase by each Holder,
which purchase the Guarantor hereby acknowledges shall benefit the Guarantor,
the Guarantor executes and delivers this Guarantee for the benefit of the
Holders.

                                   Article I

                         DEFINITIONS AND INTERPRETATION

               Section 1.1. Interpretation

               In this Guarantee, unless the context otherwise requires:

               (a) capitalized terms used in this Guarantee but not defined in
         the preamble above have the respective meanings assigned to them in
         Section 1.2;

               (b) terms defined in the Declaration as at the date of execution
         of this Guarantee have the same meaning when used in this Guarantee
         unless otherwise defined in this Guarantee;

               (c) a term defined anywhere in this Guarantee has the same
         meaning throughout;

               (d) all references to "this Guarantee" are to this Guarantee as
         modified, supplemented or amended from time to time;

               (e) all references in this Guarantee to Articles and Sections are
         to Articles and Sections of this Guarantee, unless otherwise specified;

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               (f) a term defined in the Trust Indenture Act has the same
         meaning when used in this Guarantee, unless otherwise defined in this
         Guarantee or unless the context otherwise requires; and

               (g) a reference to the singular includes the plural and vice
         versa.

               Section 1.2. Definitions

               The following terms have the following meanings:

               "Accreted Value" has the meaning set forth in the Declaration.

               "Affiliate" has the same meaning as given to that term in Rule
405 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or any successor rule
thereunder.

               "Business Day" has the meaning set forth in the Declaration.

               "Change of Control Repurchase Price" has the meaning set forth in
the Declaration.

               "Common Securities" has the meaning set forth in the Recitals
hereto.

               "Corporate Trust Office" means the office of the Guarantee
Trustee at which the corporate trust business of the Guarantee Trustee shall, at
any particular time, be principally administered, which office at the date of
execution of this Agreement is located at Rodney Square North, 1100 North Market
Street, Rodney Square North, Wilmington, Delaware 19890.

               "Covered Person" means any Holder or beneficial owner of
Securities.

               "Debenture Issuer" has the meaning set forth in the Declaration.

               "Debentures" means the series of subordinated debt securities of
the Guarantor designated the 6.000% Junior Subordinated Deferrable Interest
Debentures due 2051 to be purchased by the Issuer and held by the Property
Trustee.

               "Declaration" has the meaning set forth in the Recitals hereto.

               "Event of Default" means a failure by the Guarantor to perform
any of its payment or other obligations under this Guarantee.

               "First Supplemental Indenture" means the First Supplemental
Indenture, dated as of __________, 2002, between the Debenture Issuer and the
Indenture Trustee,

               "Guarantee Payments" means the following payments or
distributions, without duplication, with respect to the Securities, to the
extent not paid or made by the Issuer:

               (i) any accrued and unpaid Distributions (as defined in the
         Declaration) that are required to be paid on such Securities to the
         extent the Issuer has funds legally available therefor;

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                        (ii)  the Redemption Price (as defined in the
         Declaration) plus all accrued and unpaid Distributions, to the extent
         the Issuer has funds legally available therefor, relating to any
         Securities called for redemption by the Trust;

                        (iii) the Change of Control Repurchase Price (as defined
         in the Declaration), with respect to the Preferred Securities of
         Holders which exercised their right pursuant to Section 6.8 of the
         Declaration to require the Trust to exchange their Preferred Securities
         for Debentures and require the Debenture Issuer to repurchase the
         Debentures which they have received in exchange for their Preferred
         Securities, to the extent the Issuer has funds legally available
         therefor; and

                        (iv)  upon a voluntary or involuntary dissolution,
         winding-up, termination and liquidation of the Issuer (other than in
         connection with the distribution of Debentures to the Holders in
         exchange for Securities as provided in the Declaration or the
         redemption of all of the Securities), the lesser of:

                   (a)  the aggregate Accreted Value of the Securities plus all
         accrued and unpaid Distributions on the Securities to the date of
         payment; and

                   (b)  the amount of assets of the Issuer remaining available
         for distribution to Holders in liquidation of the Issuer.

                   "Guarantee Trustee" means Wilmington Trust Company until a
Successor Guarantee Trustee has been appointed and has accepted such appointment
pursuant to the terms of this Guarantee and thereafter means each such Successor
Guarantee Trustee.

                   "Guarantor" has the meaning set forth in the Recitals hereto.

                   "Holder" has the meaning given such term in the Declaration.

                   "Indemnified Person" means the Guarantee Trustee, any
Affiliate of the Guarantee Trustee, or any officers, directors, shareholders,
members, partners, employees, representatives, nominees, custodians or agents of
the Guarantee Trustee.

                   "Indenture" means the Indenture, dated as of _____________,
2002, between the Guarantor, as Debenture Issuer, and the Indenture Trustee, as
trustee, as amended or supplemented from time to time, including the First
Supplemental Indenture, dated as of _________, 2002, between the Debenture
Issuer and the Indenture Trustee, pursuant to which the Debentures are to be
issued.

                   "Indenture Event of Default" means any event specified in
Section 2.10 of the First Supplemental Indenture.

                   "Indenture Trustee" has the meaning set forth in the
Declaration.

                   "Issuer" has the meaning set forth in the Recitals hereto.

                   "Majority in Liquidation Amount" means, except as provided by
the Trust Indenture Act, Holders of outstanding Securities, voting together as a
single class, or, as the context may require, the Holders of outstanding
Preferred Securities or the Holders of outstanding

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Common Securities, voting separately as a class, who are the record owners of
more than 50% of the aggregate liquidation amount (including the stated amount
that would be paid on redemption, liquidation or otherwise, plus accumulated and
unpaid Distributions to the date upon which the voting percentages are
determined) of all outstanding Securities or all outstanding Securities of the
relevant class, as the case may be.

                   "Officers' Certificate" means, with respect to any person, a
certificate signed by any two of the Chairman, a Vice Chairman, the Chief
Executive Officer, the President, a Vice President, the Chief Financial Officer,
the Treasurer, the Chief Accounting Officer, the Secretary or an Assistant
Secretary. Any Officers' Certificate delivered with respect to compliance with a
condition or covenant provided for in this Guarantee, other than pursuant to
Section 314(a)(4) of the Trust Indenture Act, shall include:

                   (a) statement that each officer signing the Officers'
         Certificate has read the covenant or condition and the definitions
         relating thereto;

                   (b) a brief statement of the nature and scope of the
         examination or investigation undertaken by each officer in rendering
         the Officers' Certificate;

                   (c) a statement that each such officer has made such
         examination or investigation as, in such officer's opinion, is
         necessary to enable such officer to express an informed opinion as to
         whether or not such covenant or condition has been complied with; and

                   (d) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of each such
         officer, such condition or covenant has been complied with.

                   "Other Debentures" means all junior subordinated debentures
issued by the Guarantor from time to time and sold to any other trust,
partnership or other entity affiliated with the Guarantor that is a financing
vehicle of the Guarantor, if any, in each case similar to the Issuer.

                   "Other Guarantees" means all guarantees to be issued by the
Guarantor with respect to capital securities, if any, similar to the Securities
issued by any other trust, partnership or other entity affiliated with the
Guarantor that is a financing vehicle of the Guarantor, if any, in each case
similar to the Issuer.

                   "Person" has the meaning set forth in the Declaration.

                   "Preferred Securities" has the meaning set forth in the
Recitals hereto.

                   "Property Trustee" has the meaning set forth in the
Declaration.

                   "Pro Rata" has the meaning set forth in the Declaration.

                   "Redemption Price" has the meaning set forth in the
Declaration.

                   "Repurchase Price" has the meaning set forth in the
Declaration.

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              "Responsible Officer" means, with respect to the Guarantee
Trustee, any officer within the Corporate Trust Office of the Guarantee Trustee
who shall have direct responsibility for the administration of this Guarantee
and also means, with respect to a particular corporate trust matter, any other
officer within the Corporate Trust Office of the Guarantee Trustee to whom such
matter is referred because of that officer's knowledge of and familiarity with
the particular subject.

              "Securities" has the meaning set forth in the Recitals hereto.

              "Successor Guarantee Trustee" means a successor Guarantee Trustee
possessing the qualifications to act as Guarantee Trustee under Section 4.1.

              "Trust Enforcement Event" has the meaning given such term in the
Declaration.

              "Trust Indenture Act" means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, or
any successor legislation, in each case, as amended.

              "Unit" has the meaning set forth in the Declaration.

                                   Article II

                               TRUST INDENTURE ACT

              Section 2.1. Trust Indenture Act, Application

              (a) This Guarantee is subject to the provisions of the Trust
Indenture Act that are required to be part of this Guarantee and shall be
governed, to the extent applicable, by such provisions; and

              (b) if and to the extent that any provision of this Guarantee
limits, qualifies or conflicts with the duties imposed by Section 310 to 317,
inclusive, of the Trust Indenture Act, such imposed duties shall control.

              Section 2.2. Lists of Holders of Securities

              (a)  The Guarantor shall provide the Guarantee Trustee (unless the
Guarantee Trustee is otherwise the registrar of the Securities) with a list, in
such form as the Guarantee Trustee may reasonably require, of the names and
addresses of the Holders ("List of Holders"):

                   (i)  as of the record date relating to the payment of any
         Guarantee Payment, at least one Business Day prior to the date for
         payment of such Guarantee Payment, except while the Preferred
         Securities are represented by one or more Global Preferred Securities;
         and

                   (ii) at any other time, within 30 days of receipt by the
         Guarantor of a written request from the Guarantee Trustee for a List of
         Holders as of a date no more than fifteen days before such List of
         Holders is given to the Guarantee Trustee.

If at any time the List of Holders does not differ from the most recent List of
Holders provided to the Guarantee Trustee by the Guarantor, the Guarantor shall
not be obligated to provide such List

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of Holders. The Guarantee Trustee shall preserve, in as current a form as is
reasonably practicable, all information contained in Lists of Holders given to
it; provided that the Guarantee Trustee may destroy any List of Holders
previously given to it on receipt of a new List of Holders.

              (b) The Guarantee Trustee shall comply with its obligations under,
and shall be entitled to the benefits of, Sections 311(a), 311(b) and Section
312(b) of the Trust Indenture Act.

              Section 2.3. Reports by the Guarantee Trustee

              Within 60 days after May 15 of each year (commencing with the
first anniversary of the issuance of the Preferred Securities), the Guarantee
Trustee shall provide to the Holders of the Preferred Securities such reports as
are required by Section 313 of the Trust Indenture Act, if any, in the form and
in the manner provided by Section 313 of the Trust Indenture Act. The Guarantee
Trustee shall also comply with the other requirements of Section 313 of the
Trust Indenture Act.

              Section 2.4. Periodic Reports to the Guarantee Trustee

              The Guarantor shall provide to the Guarantee Trustee such
documents, reports and information as are required by Section 314 of the Trust
Indenture Act, if any, and the compliance certificate required by Section 314 of
the Trust Indenture Act in the form, in the manner and at the times required by
Section 314 of the Trust Indenture Act.

              Section 2.5. Evidence of Compliance with Conditions Precedent

              The Guarantor shall provide to the Guarantee Trustee annually such
evidence of compliance with any conditions precedent provided for in this
Guarantee that relate to any of the matters set forth in Section 314(c) of the
Trust Indenture Act. Any certificate or opinion required to be given by an
officer pursuant to Section 314(c)(1) of the Trust Indenture Act may be given in
the form of an Officers' Certificate.

              Section 2.6. Events of Default; Waiver

              Except as set forth in the Declaration and the Indenture, the
Holders of a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Securities may waive, by vote
or written consent, on behalf of all Holders, any past Event of Default and its
consequences. Upon such waiver, any such Event of Default shall cease to exist,
and any Event of Default arising there from shall be deemed to have been cured,
for every purpose of this Guarantee, but no such waiver shall extend to any
subsequent or other default or Event of Default or impair any right consequent
thereon.

              Section 2.7. Event of Default; Notice

              (a) The Guarantee Trustee shall, within 90 days after the
occurrence of an Event of Default actually known to a Responsible Officer,
transmit by mail, first class postage prepaid, to all Holders, notice of such
Event of Default, unless such Event of Default has been cured before the giving
of such notice; provided that except for a default in the payment of any
Guarantee Payment, the Guarantee Trustee shall be protected in withholding such
notice if and so

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long as a Responsible Officer in good faith determines that the withholding of
such notice is in the interests of the Holders.

              (b) The Guarantee Trustee shall not be deemed to have knowledge of
any Event of Default unless the Guarantee Trustee shall have received written
notice from the Guarantor, or a Responsible Officer charged with the
administration of the Declaration shall have obtained actual knowledge, of such
Event of Default.

              Section 2.8. Conflicting Interests

              The Declaration and the Indenture shall be deemed to be
specifically described in this Guarantee for the purposes of clause (i) of the
first proviso contained in Section 310(b) of the Trust Indenture Act.

              Section 2.9. Disclosure of Information

              The disclosure of information as to the names and addresses of the
Holders of the Securities in accordance with Section 312 of the Trust Indenture
Act, regardless of the source from which such information was derived, shall not
be deemed to be a violation of any existing law, or any law hereafter enacted
which does not specifically refer to Section 312 of the Trust Indenture Act, nor
shall the Guarantee Trustee be held accountable by reason of mailing any
material pursuant to a request made under Section 312(b) of the Trust Indenture
Act.

              Section 2.10. Guarantee Trustee May File Proofs of Claim

              Upon the occurrence of an Event of Default, the Guarantee Trustee
is hereby authorized, but shall not be obligated, to:

              (a) recover judgment, in its own name and as trustee of an express
         trust, against the Guarantor for the whole amount of any Guarantee
         Payments remaining unpaid; and

              (b) file such proofs of claim and other papers or documents as may
         be necessary or advisable in order to have its claims and those of the
         Holders allowed in any judicial proceedings relative to the Guarantor,
         its creditors or its property.

                                  ARTICLE III

                 POWERS, DUTIES AND RIGHTS OF GUARANTEE TRUSTEE

              Section 3.1. Powers and Duties of the Guarantee Trustee

              (a) This Guarantee shall be held by the Guarantee Trustee for the
benefit of the Holders, and the Guarantee Trustee shall not transfer this
Guarantee to any Person except a Holder exercising his or her rights pursuant to
Section 5.4(b) or to a Successor Guarantee Trustee on acceptance by such
Successor Guarantee Trustee of its appointment to act as Successor Guarantee
Trustee pursuant to Section 4.2. The right, title and interest of the Guarantee
Trustee shall automatically vest in any Successor Guarantee Trustee, and such
vesting and succession of title shall be effective whether or not conveyancing
documents have been executed and delivered pursuant to the appointment of such
Successor Guarantee Trustee.

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              (b) If an Event of Default actually known to a Responsible Officer
has occurred and is continuing, the Guarantee Trustee shall enforce this
Guarantee for the benefit of the Holders.

              (c) The Guarantee Trustee, before the occurrence of any Event of
Default and after the cure or waiver of all Events of Default that may have
occurred, shall undertake to perform only such duties as are specifically set
forth in this Guarantee, and no implied covenants shall be read into this
Guarantee against the Guarantee Trustee. In case an Event of Default has
occurred (that has not been cured or waived pursuant to Section 2.6) and is
actually known to a Responsible Officer, the Guarantee Trustee shall exercise
such of the rights and powers vested in it by this Guarantee, and use the same
degree of care and skill in its exercise thereof, as a prudent person would
exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of his or her own
affairs.

              (d) No provision of this Guarantee shall be construed to relieve
the Guarantee Trustee from liability for its own negligent action, its own
negligent failure to act, or its own willful misconduct, except that:

                  (i)   prior to the occurrence of any Event of Default and
         after the curing or waiving of all such Events of Default that may have
         occurred:

                        (A) the duties and obligations of the Guarantee Trustee
              shall be determined solely by the express provisions of this
              Guarantee, and the Guarantee Trustee shall not be liable except
              for the performance of such duties and obligations as are
              specifically set forth in this Guarantee, and no implied covenants
              or obligations shall be read into this Guarantee against the
              Guarantee Trustee; and

                        (B) in the absence of bad faith on the part of the
              Guarantee Trustee, the Guarantee Trustee may conclusively rely, as
              to the truth of the statements and the correctness of the opinions
              expressed therein, upon any certificates or opinions furnished to
              the Guarantee Trustee and conforming on their face to the
              requirements of this Guarantee; provided, however, that in the
              case of any such certificates or opinions that by any provision
              hereof are specifically required to be furnished to the Guarantee
              Trustee, the Guarantee Trustee shall be under a duty to examine
              the same only to determine whether or not on their face they
              conform to the requirements of this Guarantee;

                  (ii)  the Guarantee Trustee shall not be liable for any error
         of judgment made in good faith by a Responsible Officer, unless it
         shall be proved that the Guarantee Trustee was negligent in
         ascertaining the pertinent facts upon which such judgment was made;

                  (iii) the Guarantee Trustee shall not be liable with respect
         to any action taken or omitted to be taken by it without negligence, in
         good faith in accordance with the direction of the Holders of a
         Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Securities relating to the time,
         method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available
         to the Guarantee Trustee in respect of this Guarantee, or exercising
         any trust or power conferred upon the Guarantee Trustee under this
         Guarantee; and

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                    (iv) no provision of this Guarantee shall require the
               Guarantee Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise
               incur personal financial liability in the performance of any of
               its duties or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers.

               Section 3.2. Certain Rights of Guarantee Trustee

               (a)  Subject to the provisions of Section 3.1:

                    (i)   the Guarantee Trustee may conclusively rely, and shall
               be fully protected in acting or refraining from acting, upon any
               resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report,
               notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond, debenture,
               note, other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or document
               believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed, sent or
               presented by the proper party or parties;

                    (ii)  any direction or act of the Guarantor contemplated by
               this Guarantee may be sufficiently evidenced by an Officers'
               Certificate;

                    (iii) whenever, in the administration of this Guarantee, the
               Guarantee Trustee shall deem it desirable that a matter be proved
               or established before taking, suffering or omitting any action
               hereunder, the Guarantee Trustee (unless other evidence is herein
               specifically prescribed) may request and, in the absence of bad
               faith on its part, conclusively rely upon an Officers'
               Certificate which, upon receipt of such request, shall be
               promptly delivered by the Guarantor;

                    (iv)  the Guarantee Trustee shall have no duty to record,
               file or register any instrument (including any financing or
               continuation statement or any filing under tax or securities
               laws) or any duty to rerecord, refile or reregister such
               instrument;

                    (v)   the Guarantee Trustee may consult with counsel or
               other experts of its selection, and the advice or opinion of such
               counsel with respect to legal matters or advice within the scope
               of such experts' area of expertise shall be full and complete
               authorization and protection in respect of any action taken,
               suffered or omitted by it hereunder in good faith and in
               accordance with such advice or opinion. Such counsel may be
               counsel to the Guarantor or any of its Affiliates and may include
               any of its employees. The Guarantee Trustee shall have the right
               at any time to seek instructions concerning the administration of
               this Guarantee from any court of competent jurisdiction;

                    (vi)  the Guarantee Trustee shall be under no obligation to
               exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by this
               Guarantee at the request or direction of any Holder, unless such
               Holder shall have provided to the Guarantee Trustee such security
               and indemnity, reasonably satisfactory to the Guarantee Trustee,
               against the costs, expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees
               and expenses and the expenses of the Guarantee Trustee's agents,
               nominees or custodians) and liabilities that might be incurred by
               it in complying with such request or direction, including such
               reasonable advances as may be requested by the Guarantee Trustee;
               provided that nothing contained in this Section 3.2(a)(vi) shall
               be taken to relieve the Guarantee Trustee, upon the occurrence of
               an Event of Default, of its obligation to exercise the rights and
               powers vested in it by this Guarantee;

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                   (vii)  the Guarantee Trustee shall not be bound to make any
               investigation into the facts or matters stated in any resolution,
               certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice,
               request, direction, consent, order, bond, debenture, note, other
               evidence of indebtedness or other paper or document, but the
               Guarantee Trustee, in its discretion, may make such further
               inquiry or investigation into such facts or matters as it may see
               fit;

                   (viii) the Guarantee Trustee may execute any of the trusts
               or powers hereunder or perform any duties hereunder either
               directly or by or through agents, custodians, nominees or
               attorneys, and the Guarantee Trustee shall not be responsible for
               any misconduct or negligence on the part of any agent or attorney
               appointed with due care by it hereunder;

                   (ix)   any action taken by the Guarantee Trustee or its
               agents hereunder shall bind the Holders, and the signature of the
               Guarantee Trustee or its agents alone shall be sufficient and
               effective to perform any such action, and no third party shall be
               required to inquire as to the authority of the Guarantee Trustee
               to so act or as to its compliance with any of the terms and
               provisions of this Guarantee, both of which shall be conclusively
               evidenced by the Guarantee Trustee's or its agent's taking such
               action;

                   (x)    whenever in the administration of this Guarantee the
               Guarantee Trustee shall deem it desirable to receive instructions
               with respect to enforcing any remedy or right or taking any other
               action hereunder, the Guarantee Trustee:

                          (A) may request instructions from the Holders of a
                   Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Preferred Securities;

                          (B) may refrain from enforcing such remedy or right or
                   taking such other action until such instructions are
                   received; and

                          (C) shall be protected in conclusively relying on or
                   acting in accordance with such instructions; and

                   (xi)   the Guarantee Trustee shall not be liable for any
               action taken, suffered, or omitted to be taken by it in good
               faith, without negligence, and reasonably believed by it to be
               authorized or within the discretion, rights or powers conferred
               upon it by this Guarantee.

               (b) No provision of this Guarantee shall be deemed to impose any
duty or obligation on the Guarantee Trustee to perform any act or acts or
exercise any right, power, duty or obligation conferred or imposed on it, in any
jurisdiction in which it shall be illegal, or in which the Guarantee Trustee
shall be unqualified or incompetent in accordance with applicable law, to
perform any such act or acts or to exercise any such right, power, duty or
obligation. No permissive power or authority available to the Guarantee Trustee
shall be construed to be a duty.

               Section 3.3. Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of
          Guarantee

               The recitals contained in this Guarantee shall be taken as the
statements of the Guarantor, and the Guarantee Trustee does not assume any
responsibility for their correctness. The Guarantee Trustee makes no
representation as to the validity or sufficiency of this Guarantee.

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                                   ARTICLE IV

                                GUARANTEE TRUSTEE

               Section 4.1. Guarantee Trustee: Eligibility

               (a) There shall at all times be a Guarantee Trustee which shall:

                   (i)  not be an Affiliate of the Guarantor; and

                   (ii) be a corporation organized and doing business under the
         laws of the United States of America or any State or Territory thereof
         or of the District of Columbia, or a corporation or Person permitted by
         the Securities and Exchange Commission to act as an institutional
         trustee under the Trust Indenture Act, authorized under such laws to
         exercise corporate trust powers, having a combined capital and surplus
         of at least $50,000,000, and subject to supervision or examination by
         federal, state, territorial or District of Columbia authority. If such
         corporation publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant
         to law or to the requirements of the supervising or examining authority
         referred to above, then for the purposes of this Section 4.1(a)(ii),
         the combined capital and surplus of such corporation shall be deemed to
         be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent
         report of condition so published.

               (b) If at any time the Guarantee Trustee shall cease to be
eligible to so act under Section 4.1(a), the Guarantee Trustee shall immediately
resign in the manner and with the effect set out in Section 4.2(c).

               (c) If the Guarantee Trustee has or shall acquire any
"conflicting interest" within the meaning of Section 310(b) of the Trust
Indenture Act, the Guarantee Trustee and Guarantor shall in all respects comply
with the provisions of Section 310(b) of the Trust Indenture Act.

               Section 4.2. Appointment, Removal and Resignation of Guarantee
Trustee

               (a) Subject to Section 4.2(b), the Guarantee Trustee may be
appointed or removed without cause at any time by the Guarantor except during an
Event of Default. Subject to the provisions of this Section 4.2, if an Event of
Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the Guarantee Trustee may be
appointed or removed by the Holders of a Majority in Liquidation Amount.

               (b) The Guarantee Trustee shall not be removed in accordance with
Section 4.2(a) until a Successor Guarantee Trustee has been appointed and has
accepted such appointment by written instrument executed by such Successor
Guarantee Trustee and delivered to the Guarantor.

               (c) The Guarantee Trustee shall hold office until a Successor
Guarantee Trustee shall have been appointed or until its removal or resignation.
The Guarantee Trustee may resign from office (without need for prior or
subsequent accounting) by a written instrument executed by the Guarantee Trustee
and delivered to the Guarantor, which resignation shall not take effect until a
Successor Guarantee Trustee has been appointed and has accepted such

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appointment by instrument in writing executed by such Successor Guarantee
Trustee and delivered to the Guarantor and the resigning Guarantee Trustee.

              (d) If no Successor Guarantee Trustee shall have been appointed
and accepted appointment as provided in this Section 4.2 within 30 days after
delivery of an instrument of removal or resignation, the Guarantee Trustee
resigning or being removed may at the expense of the Guarantor petition any
court of competent jurisdiction for appointment of a Successor Guarantee
Trustee. Such court may thereupon, after prescribing such notice, if any, as it
may deem proper, appoint a Successor Guarantee Trustee.

              (e) No Guarantee Trustee shall be liable for the acts or omissions
to act of any Successor Guarantee Trustee.

              (f) Upon termination of this Guarantee or removal or resignation
of the Guarantee Trustee pursuant to this Section 4.2, the Guarantor shall pay
to the Guarantee Trustee all amounts due to the Guarantee Trustee accrued to the
date of such termination, removal or resignation.

                                    ARTICLE V

                                    GUARANTEE

              Section 5.1. Guarantee

              To the extent set forth in this Guarantee, the Guarantor
irrevocably and unconditionally agrees to pay in full to all Holders the
Guarantee Payments (without duplication of amounts theretofore paid by the
Issuer) on a Pro Rata basis, as and when due, regardless of any defense, right
of set-off or counterclaim that the Issuer may have or assert. The Guarantor's
obligation to make a Guarantee Payment may be satisfied by direct payment of the
required amounts by the Guarantor to the Holders or by causing the Issuer to pay
such amounts to the Holders. If a Trust Enforcement Event has occurred and is
continuing, the rights of the Holders of the Common Securities to receive
Guarantee Payments shall be subordinated to the rights of the Holders of
Preferred Securities to receive Guarantee Payments. Notwithstanding anything to
the contrary herein, the Guarantor, in its capacity as Debenture Issuer, retains
all of its rights under the Indenture to:

                      (i)  extend the interest payment period on the Debentures
          and the Guarantor shall not be obligated hereunder to make any
          Guarantee Payments during any Extension Period (as defined in the
          Indenture) with respect to the Distributions on the Securities; and

                     (ii)  change the maturity date of the Debentures to the
          extent permitted by the Indenture.

              Section 5.2. Waiver of Notice and Demand

              The Guarantor hereby waives notice of acceptance of this
Guarantee and of any liability to which it applies or may apply, presentment,
demand for payment, any right to require a proceeding first against the Issuer
or any other Person before proceeding against the Guarantor,

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protest, notice of nonpayment, notice of dishonor, notice of redemption and all
other notices and demands.

              Section 5.3. Obligations Not Affected

              The obligations, covenants, agreements and duties of the Guarantor
under this Guarantee shall in no way be affected or impaired by reason of the
happening from time to time of any of the following:

              (a) the release or waiver, by operation of law or otherwise, of
         the performance or observance by the Issuer of any express or implied
         agreement, covenant, term or condition relating to the Securities to be
         performed or observed by the Issuer;

              (b) the extension of time for the payment by the Issuer of all or
         a portion of the Distributions, Redemption Price or any other sums
         payable under the terms of the Securities or the extension of time for
         the performance of any other obligation under, arising out of, or in
         connection with, the Securities (other than an extension of time for
         payment of Distributions, Redemption Price or other sum payable that
         results from the extension of any interest payment period on the
         Debentures permitted by the Indenture);

              (c) any failure, omission, delay or lack of diligence on the part
         of the Holders to enforce, assert or exercise any right, privilege,
         power or remedy conferred on the Holders pursuant to the terms of the
         Securities, or any action on the part of the Issuer granting indulgence
         or extension of any kind;

              (d) the voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution, sale of
         any collateral, receivership, insolvency, bankruptcy, assignment for
         the benefit of creditors, reorganization, arrangement, composition or
         readjustment of debt of, or other similar proceedings affecting, the
         Issuer or any of the assets of the Issuer;

              (e) any invalidity of, or defect or deficiency in, the Securities;

              (f) the settlement or compromise of any obligation guaranteed or
         incurred in this Guarantee; or

              (g) any other circumstance whatsoever that might otherwise
         constitute a legal or equitable discharge or defense of the Guarantor,
         it being the intent of this Section 5.3 that the obligations of the
         Guarantor with respect to the Guarantee Payments shall be absolute and
         unconditional under any and all circumstances.

              There shall be no obligation of the Holders to give notice to, or
obtain consent of, the Guarantor with respect to the happening of any of the
foregoing.

              No setoff, counterclaim, reduction or diminution of any
obligation, or any defense of any kind or nature that the Guarantor has or may
have against any Holder (except the defense of payment to such Holder) shall be
available hereunder to the Guarantor against such Holder to reduce the payments
to it under this Guarantee.

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              Section 5.4. Rights of Holders

              (a) The Holders of a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the
Securities have the right to direct the time, method and place of conducting any
proceeding for any remedy available to the Guarantee Trustee in respect of this
Guarantee or exercising any trust or power conferred upon the Guarantee Trustee
under this Guarantee.

              (b) If the Guarantee Trustee fails to enforce this Guarantee,
subject to the subordination provisions of Section 6.2, any Holder may institute
a legal proceeding directly against the Guarantor to enforce the Guarantee
Trustee's rights under this Guarantee, without first instituting a legal
proceeding against the Issuer, the Guarantee Trustee or any other person or
entity. In addition, if the Guarantor has failed to make a Guarantee Payment, a
Holder, subject to the subordination provisions of Section 6.2, may institute a
legal proceeding directly against the Guarantor for enforcement of the Guarantee
for payment to such Holder of the principal of or interest on the Debentures
having a principal amount equal to the aggregate liquidation amount of the
Securities of such Holder. The Guarantor waives any right or remedy to require
that any action be brought first against the Issuer or any other Person before
proceeding directly against the Guarantor.

              Section 5.5. Guarantee of Payment

              This Guarantee creates a guarantee of payment and not of
collection.

              Section 5.6. Subrogation

              The Guarantor shall be subrogated to all, if any, rights of the
Holders against the Issuer in respect of any amounts paid to such Holders by the
Guarantor under this Guarantee; provided, however, that the Guarantor shall not
(except to the extent required by mandatory provisions of law) be entitled to
enforce or exercise any right that it may acquire by way of subrogation or any
indemnity, reimbursement or other agreement, in all cases as a result of payment
under this Guarantee, if, at the time of any such payment, any amounts are due
and unpaid under this Guarantee. If any amount shall be paid to the Guarantor in
violation of the preceding sentence, the Guarantor agrees to hold such amount in
trust for the Holders and to pay over such amount to the Guarantee Trustee for
the benefit of the Holders.

              Section 5.7. Independent Obligations

              The Guarantor acknowledges that its obligations hereunder are
independent of the obligations of the Issuer with respect to the Securities, and
that the Guarantor shall be liable as principal and as debtor hereunder to make
Guarantee Payments pursuant to the terms of this Guarantee notwithstanding the
occurrence of any event referred to in subsections (a) through (g), inclusive,
of Section 5.3 hereof.

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                                   ARTICLE VI

                    LIMITATION OF TRANSACTIONS; SUBORDINATION

              Section 6.1. Limitation of Transactions

              So long as any Securities remain outstanding, if an Event of
Default occurs under the Guarantee or a Trust Enforcement Event occurs under the
Declaration and written notice of such event has been given to the Guarantor, or
if the Guarantor has exercised its option under the Indenture to defer interest
payments and that period or extension of that period is continuing, the
Guarantor shall not:

              (a) declare or pay any dividend on, make any distributions
       relating to, or redeem, purchase, acquire or make a liquidation payment
       relating to, any of the Guarantor's capital stock or any warrants,
       options or other rights to acquire capital stock (but excluding any debt
       security that is convertible into or exchangeable for capital stock);

              (b) make any payment of interest, principal or premium, if any, on
       or repay, repurchase or redeem any debt securities of the Guarantor
       (including any Other Debentures) that rank on a parity with or junior in
       interest to the Debentures or make any payments with respect to any
       guarantee by the Guarantor of the debt securities of any subsidiary of
       the Guarantor (including Other Guarantees) if such guarantee ranks on a
       parity with or junior in interest to the Debentures

       in each case, other than:

                  (i)   dividends or distributions in capital stock (or rights
       to acquire capital stock) of the Guarantor;

                  (ii)  payments under this Guarantee;

                  (iii) any declaration of a dividend in connection with the
       implementation of a shareholders' rights plan, or the issuance of stock
       under any such plan in the future, or the redemption or repurchase of any
       such rights pursuant to a rights agreement;

                  (iv)  repurchases or acquisitions of shares of capital stock
       of the Guarantor in connection with the satisfaction by the Guarantor of
       its obligations under any employee benefit plans or any other contractual
       obligation of the Guarantor; or

                  (v)   as a result of an exchange or conversion of the
       Guarantor's capital stock for another class or series of the Guarantor's
       capital stock;

                  (vi)  the purchase of fractional interests in shares of the
       Guarantor's capital stock pursuant to the conversion or exchange
       provisions of such capital stock or the security being converted or
       exchanged; and

                  (vii) repurchases of capital stock of the Guarantor in
       connection with the satisfaction by the Guarantor of its obligations
       pursuant to any acquisitions of

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         businesses made by the Guarantor (which repurchases are made in
         connection with the satisfaction of indemnification obligations of the
         sellers of such businesses).

              Section 6.2. Ranking

              This Guarantee will constitute an unsecured obligation of the
Guarantor and will rank:

                     (i)   subordinate and junior in right of payment to Senior
         Indebtedness (as defined in the First Supplemental Indenture), to the
         same extent and in the same manner that the Debentures are subordinated
         to Senior Indebtedness pursuant to the Indenture, it being understood
         that the terms of Article 6 of the First Supplemental Indenture shall
         apply to the obligations of the Guarantor under this Guarantee as if
         (x) such Article 6 were set forth herein in full and (y) such
         obligations were substituted for the term "Debentures" appearing in
         such Article 6, except that with respect to Section 6 of the First
         Supplemental Indenture only, the term "Senior Indebtedness" shall mean
         all liabilities of the Guarantor, whether or not for money borrowed
         (other than obligations in respect of Other Guarantees);

                     (ii)  pari passu with the most senior preferred or
         preference stock now or hereafter issued by the Guarantor, any
         guarantee now or hereafter entered into by the Guarantor in respect of
         any preferred or preference stock of any Affiliate of the Guarantor,
         and any Other Guarantee; and

                     (iii) senior to the Guarantor's capital stock.

                                   ARTICLE VII

                                   TERMINATION

              Section 7.1. Termination

              This Guarantee shall terminate upon:

                     (i)   full payment of the Redemption Price of all
         Securities;

                     (ii)  distribution of the Debentures held by the Issuer to
         the Holders; or

                     (iii) liquidation of the Issuer and the full payment of the
         amounts payable in accordance with the Declaration or the distribution
         of the Debentures to the Holders.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, this Guarantee will continue to be effective or
will be reinstated, as the case may be, if at any time any Holder must restore
payment of any sums paid under the Securities or under this Guarantee.

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                                  ARTICLE VIII

                                 INDEMNIFICATION

                  Section 8.1. Exculpation

                  (a) No Indemnified Person shall be liable, responsible or
accountable in damages or otherwise to the Guarantor or any Covered Person for
any loss, damage or claim incurred by reason of any act or omission performed or
omitted by such Indemnified Person in good faith in accordance with this
Guarantee and in a manner that such Indemnified Person reasonably believed to be
within the scope of the authority conferred on such Indemnified Person by this
Guarantee or by law, except that an Indemnified Person shall be liable for any
such loss, damage or claim incurred by a Holder by reason of such Indemnified
Person's negligence or willful misconduct with respect to such acts or
omissions.

                  (b) An Indemnified Person shall be fully protected in relying
in good faith upon the records of the Guarantor and upon such information,
opinions, reports or statements presented to the Guarantor by any Person as to
matters the Indemnified Person reasonably believes are within such other
Person's professional or expert competence and, if selected by the Indemnified
Person, who has been selected with reasonable care, including information,
opinions, reports or statements as to the value and amount of the assets,
liabilities, profits, losses, or any other facts pertinent to the existence and
amount of assets from which Distributions to Holders might properly be paid.

                  Section 8.2. Indemnification

                  To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Guarantor agrees
to indemnify each Indemnified Person for, and to hold each Indemnified Person
harmless against, any and all loss, liability, damage, claim or expense incurred
without negligence or bad faith on its part, arising out of or in connection
with the acceptance or administration of the trust or trusts hereunder,
including the costs and expenses (including reasonable legal fees and expenses)
of defending itself against, or investigating, any claim or liability in
connection with the exercise or performance of any of its powers or duties
hereunder. The obligation to indemnify as set forth in this Section 8.2 shall
survive the termination of this Guarantee and shall survive the removal or
resignation of the Guarantee Trustee.

                                   ARTICLE IX

                                  MISCELLANEOUS

                  Section 9.1. Successors and Assigns

                  All guarantees and agreements contained in this Guarantee
shall bind the successors, assigns, receivers, trustees and representatives of
the Guarantor and shall inure to the benefit of the Holders then outstanding.

                  Section 9.2. Amendments

                  Except with respect to any changes that do not materially
adversely affect the rights of Holders (in which case no consent of Holders will
be required), this Guarantee may only

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be amended with the prior approval of the Holders of a Majority in Liquidation
Amount of the Securities. The provisions of the Declaration with respect to
consents to amendments thereof, whether at a meeting or otherwise, shall apply
to the giving of such approval.

                  Section 9.3. Notices

                  All notices provided for in this Guarantee shall be in
writing, duly signed by the party giving such notice, and shall be delivered by
hand or express courier, telecopied or mailed by first class mail, as follows:

                  (a) If given to the Issuer, at the Issuer's mailing address
         set forth below (or such other address as the Issuer may give notice of
         to the Holders and the Guarantee Trustee):

                      New York Community Capital Trust V
                      c/o New York Community Bancorp, Inc.
                      615 Merrick Avenue
                      Westbury, New York 11590
                      Attention: Joseph R. Ficalora, Administrative Trustee, c/o
                      Chief Executive Officer
                      Telecopy: (516) 683-4100

                  (b) If given to the Guarantee Trustee, at the Guarantee
         Trustee's mailing address set forth below (or such other address as the
         Guarantee Trustee may give notice of to the Holders and the Issuer):

                      Wilmington Trust Company
                      Rodney Square North
                      1100 North Market Street
                      Rodney Square North
                      Wilmington, Delaware 19890
                      Attention: Corporate Trust Administration
                      Telecopy: (302) 636-4140

                  (c) If given to the Guarantor, at the Guarantor's mailing
         address set forth below (or such other address as the Guarantor may
         give notice of to the Holders and the Guarantee Trustee):

                      New York Community Bancorp, Inc.
                      615 Merrick Avenue
                      Westbury, New York 11590
                      Attention: Chief Executive Officer
                      Telecopy: (516) 683-4100

                  (d) If given to any Holder, at such Holder's address set forth
         on the books and records of the Issuer.

                  All such notices shall be deemed to have been given when
received in person, telecopied with receipt confirmed, or mailed by first class
mail, postage prepaid except that if a notice or other document is refused
delivery or cannot be delivered because of a changed address

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of which no notice was given, such notice or other document shall be deemed to
have been delivered on the date of such refusal or inability to deliver.

                  Section 9.4. Benefit

                  This Guarantee is solely for the benefit of the Holders and,
subject to Section 3.1(a), is not separately transferable from the Securities.

                  Section 9.5. Governing Law

                  THIS GUARANTEE SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED AND
INTERPRETED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

                  Section 9.6. Counterparts

                  This Guarantee may contain more than one counterpart of the
signature page, and this Guarantee may be executed by affixing of the signature
of each of the parties to one of such counterpart signature pages. All such
counterpart signature pages shall be read as though one, and they shall have the
same force and effect as though all of the signers had signed a single signature
page.

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                  IN WITNESS WHEREOF, this Guarantee Agreement has been entered
into as of the day and year first above written.

                                       NEW YORK COMMUNITY BANCORP, INC., AS
                                       GUARANTOR

                                       By: ____________________________________
                                           Name:
                                           Title:

                                       WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY, AS
                                       GUARANTEE TRUSTEE

                                       By: _____________________________________
                                           Name:
                                           Title:<PAGE>

                                                                   Exhibit 4(o)

                        NEW YORK COMMUNITY BANCORP, INC.
                       NEW YORK COMMUNITY CAPITAL TRUST V

                                       and

                            Wilmington Trust Company,
                                as Warrant Agent

                            Wilmington Trust Company,
                               as Property Trustee

                            Wilmington Trust Company,
                                  as Unit Agent

                                 UNIT AGREEMENT

                          Dated as of ____________, 2002

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                               TABLE OF CONTENTS

                                                                           Page

Article I        Definitions and Other Provisions of General
                 Applications .............................................    1

       Section 1.1.  Definitions ..........................................    1

       Section 1.2.  Compliance Certificates and Opinions .................    7

       Section 1.3.  Form of Documents Delivered to Unit Agent ............    8

       Section 1.4.  Acts of Holders; Record Dates ........................    8

       Section 1.5.  Notices ..............................................   10

       Section 1.6.  Notice to Holders; Waiver ............................   11

       Section 1.7.  Effect of Headings and Table of Contents .............   11

       Section 1.8.  Successors and Assigns ...............................   11

       Section 1.9.  Separability Clause ..................................   11

       Section 1.10. Benefits of Agreement ................................   11

       Section 1.11. Governing Law ........................................   12

       Section 1.12. Legal Holidays .......................................   12

       Section 1.13. Counterparts .........................................   12

       Section 1.14. Inspection of Agreement ..............................   12

Article II       Certificate Forms ........................................   12

       Section 2.1.  Forms of Certificates Generally; Legends .............   12

       Section 2.2.  Form of Unit Agent's Certificate of Authentication ...   13

Article III      The Units ................................................   13

       Section 3.1.  Amount; Form and Denominations .......................   13

       Section 3.2.  Rights and Obligations Evidenced by the
                     Certificates .........................................   13

       Section 3.3.  Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating .......   14

       Section 3.4.  Temporary Certificates ...............................   15

       Section 3.5.  Registration; Registration of Transfer and Exchange ..   15

       Section 3.6.  Separation and Rejoining of Units ....................   16

       Section 3.7.  Book-Entry Interests .................................   17

       Section 3.8.  Notices to Holders ...................................   18

       Section 3.9.  Appointment of Successor Clearing Agency .............   18

       Section 3.10. Definitive Certificates ..............................   18

       Section 3.11. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Certificates ...   18

       Section 3.12. Persons Deemed Owners ................................   19

       Section 3.13. Cancellation .........................................   20

       Section 3.14. CUSIP Numbers ........................................   20

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                                  (continued)

Article IV       The Preferred Securities .................................   20

       Section 4.1.  Payment of Distribution; Rights to Distributions
                     Preserved; Distribution Rate Reset ...................   20

       Section 4.2.  Notice and Voting ....................................   21

       Section 4.3.  Distribution of Debentures ...........................   21

Article V        Remarketing and Redemption; Early Exercise ...............   22

       Section 5.1.     Remarketing and Redemption ........................   22

       Section 5.3.     Change of Control .................................   24

       Section 5.4.     Certain Rights Following a Remarketing ............   25

Article VI       Remedies .................................................   25

       Section 6.1.  Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Payments
                     and to Purchase Common Stock .........................   25

       Section 6.2.  Restoration of Rights and Remedies ...................   25

       Section 6.3.  Rights and Remedies Cumulative .......................   26

       Section 6.4.  Delay or Omission Not Waiver .........................   26

       Section 6.5.  Undertaking for Costs ................................   26

       Section 6.6.  Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws .....................   26

Article VII      The Unit Agent ...........................................   27

       Section 7.1.  Certain Duties and Responsibilities ..................   27

       Section 7.2.  Notice of Default ....................................   27

       Section 7.3.  Certain Rights of Unit Agent .........................   28

       Section 7.4.  Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Units ....   29

       Section 7.5.  May Hold Units .......................................   29

       Section 7.6.  Money Held in Custody ................................   29

       Section 7.7.  Compensation and Reimbursement .......................   29

       Section 7.8.  Corporate Agent Required; Eligibility ................   30

       Section 7.9.  Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor ....   30

       Section 7.10. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor ...............   31

       Section 7.11. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to
                     Business .............................................   32

       Section 7.12. Preservation of Information; Communications to
                     Holders ..............................................   32

       Section 7.13. No Obligations of Unit Agent .........................   32

       Section 7.14. Tax Compliance .......................................   33

Article VIII     Supplemental Agreements ..................................   33

       Section 8.1.  Supplemental Agreements Without Consent of Holders ...   33

       Section 8.2.  Supplemental Agreements With Consent of Holders;
                     Other Fiduciaries ....................................   33

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                                  (continued)

       Section 8.3.     Execution of Supplemental Agreements ..............   34

       Section 8.4.     Effect of Supplemental Agreements .................   34

       Section 8.5.     Reference to Supplemental Agreements ..............   35

Article IX       Consolidation, Merger, Sale or Conveyance ................   35

       Section 9.1.     Covenant Not to Merge, Consolidate, Sell or
                        Convey Property Except Under Certain Conditions ...   35

       Section 9.2.     Rights and Duties of Successor Corporation ........   35

       Section 9.3.     Opinion of Counsel Given to Agent .................   36

Article X         Covenants ...............................................   36

       Section 10.1.    Performance Under Agreements ......................   36

       Section 10.2.    Maintenance of Office or Agency ...................   36

       Section 10.3.    Statements of Officers of the Company as to
                         Compliance .......................................   36

       Section 10.4.    ERISA .............................................   37

       Section 10.5.    Statement by Officers as to Default ...............   37

       Section 10.6.    Calculation of Original Issue Discount ............   37

Article XI       Representations of the Unit Agent ........................   37

       Section 11.1.    Representations and Warranties of the Unit Agent ..   37

Article XII      The Warrant Agent and The Property Trustee ...............   38

       Section 12.1.    Certain Duties and Responsibilities ...............   38

EXHIBIT A Form of Certificate
EXHIBIT B Instruction to Disregard Remarketing
EXHIBIT C Notice of Electing Remarketing Holder
EXHIBIT D Notice of Change of Control Redemption Election
EXHIBIT E Notice of Change of Control Exchange and Repurchase

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     UNIT AGREEMENT, dated as of ___________, 2002 among New York Community
Bancorp, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the "Company"), New York Community
Capital Trust V, a Delaware statutory trust (the "Trust"), Wilmington Trust
Company, as Property Trustee for the Trust, Wilmington Trust Company, as Warrant
Agent, and Wilmington Trust Company, acting as unit agent for the Holders of the
Units from time to time (the "Unit Agent").

                                    RECITALS:

     WHEREAS, the Issuers desire to issue Bifurcated Option Note Unit
SecuritiESSM (BONUSES/SM/) consisting of:

          (i) Preferred Securities (stated liquidation amount $50.00 per
     preferred security) issued by the Trust pursuant to the Declaration and
     guaranteed (such guarantee, the "Guarantee" and, together with the
     Preferred Securities, the "Trust Securities") by the Company, to the extent
     set forth in the Guarantee Agreement; and

          (ii) Warrants issued by the Company pursuant to the Warrant Agreement;

     WHEREAS, concurrently with the issuance of the Trust Securities, the Trust
will invest the proceeds thereof (together with the proceeds of the issuance to
the Company of the common securities of the Trust) in Debentures;

     WHEREAS the Issuers have duly authorized the execution and delivery of this
Unit Agreement and the Certificates evidencing the Securities;

     WHEREAS, all things necessary to make the Preferred Securities, when the
Certificates are executed by the Trust and authenticated and delivered by the
Unit Agent, as provided in this Unit Agreement, the valid obligations of the
Trust, and to constitute these presents a valid agreement of the Trust, in
accordance with its terms, have been done; and

     WHEREAS, all things necessary to make the Warrants and the Debentures, when
the Certificates are executed by the Company and authenticated and delivered by
the Unit Agent, as provided in this Unit Agreement, the valid obligations of the
Company, and to constitute these presents a valid agreement of the Company, in
accordance with its terms, have been done.

                              W I T N E S S E T H:

     NOW, THEREFORE, for and in consideration of the premises and the purchase
of the Units by the Holders thereof, it is mutually agreed as follows:

                                   Article I

                        Definitions and Other Provisions
                             of General Applications

     Section 1.1.   Definitions.

     For all purposes of this Unit Agreement, except as otherwise expressly
provided or unless the context otherwise requires:

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          (a)  the terms defined in this Article have the meanings assigned to
     them in this Article and include the plural as well as the singular, and
     nouns and pronouns of the masculine gender include the feminine and neutral
     genders;

          (b)  all accounting terms not otherwise defined herein have the
     meanings assigned to them in accordance with generally accepted accounting
     principles in the United States;

          (c)  the words "herein," "hereof" and "hereunder" and other words of
     similar import refer to this Unit Agreement as a whole and not to any
     particular Article, Section, Exhibit or other subdivision;

          (d)  the following terms have the meanings given to them in this
     Section 1.1(d):

          "Accreted Value" has the meaning set forth in the Declaration.

          "Act," when used with respect to any Holder, has the meaning set forth
     in Section 1.4.

          "Action Expiration Date" has the meaning set forth in Section 1.4(e).

          "Affiliate" of any specified Person means any other Person directly or
     indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common
     control with such specified Person. For the purposes of this definition,
     "control" when used with respect to any specified Person means the power to
     direct the management and policies of such Person, directly or indirectly,
     whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or
     otherwise; and the terms "controlling" and "controlled" have meanings
     correlative to the foregoing.

          "Applicable Procedures" means, with respect to any transfer or
     exchange of or for the beneficial interests in the Global Units, the rules
     and procedures of the Depositary that apply to such transfer or exchange.

          "Bankruptcy Code" means title 11 of the United States Code, or any
     other law of the United States that from time to time provides a uniform
     system of bankruptcy laws.

          "Beneficial Owner" means, with respect to a Global Unit, a Person who
     is the beneficial owner of such Book-Entry Interest as reflected on the
     books of the Clearing Agency or on the books of a Person maintaining an
     account with such Clearing Agency (directly as a Clearing Agency
     Participant or as an indirect participant, in each case in accordance with
     the rules of such Clearing Agency).

          "Board of Directors" means the board of directors of the Company or
     any duly authorized committee of that board.

          "Board Resolution" means one or more resolutions of the Board of
     Directors, a copy of which has been certified by the Secretary or an
     Assistant Secretary of the Company to have been duly adopted by the Board
     of Directors and to be in full force and effect on the date of such
     certification and delivered to the Unit Agent.

          "Book-Entry Interest" means a beneficial interest in a Global Unit,
     ownership and transfers of which shall be maintained and made through book
     entries by a Clearing Agency as described in Section 3.7.

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          "Business Day" means any day other than a Saturday or Sunday or a day
     on which banking institutions in the City of New York are authorized or
     required by law or executive order to remain closed or a day on which the
     Indenture Trustee, or the principal office of the Property Trustee under
     the Declaration, is closed for business.

          "Calculation Agent" means Wilmington Trust Company, solely as
     calculation agent under the Calculation Agreement, and any successor
     thereto.

          "Calculation Agreement" means the Calculation Agency Agreement dated
     as of ___________, 2002 between the Company and the Calculation Agent, as
     amended, supplemented or replaced from time to time in accordance with its
     terms.

          "Certificate" means a certificate evidencing the rights and
     obligations of a Holder in respect of the number of Units specified on such
     Certificate, substantially in the form of Exhibit A hereto.

          "Change of Control" has the meaning set forth in the Declaration.

          "Change of Control Notice Date" has the meaning set forth in Section
     5.3.

          "Change of Control Redemption Right" has the meaning set forth in
     Section 5.3.

          "Change of Control Repurchase Right" has the meaning set forth in
     Section 5.3.

          "Clearing Agency" means an organization registered as a "Clearing
     Agency" pursuant to Section 17A of the Exchange Act that is acting as a
     depositary for the Units and in whose name, or in the name of a nominee of
     that organization, shall be registered a Global Unit and which shall
     undertake to effect book-entry transfers and pledges of the Units.

          "Clearing Agency Participant" means a broker, dealer, bank, other
     financial institution or other Person for whom from time to time the
     Clearing Agency effects book-entry transfers and pledges of securities
     deposited with the Clearing Agency.

          "Code" means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.

          "Common Stock" means the common stock of the Company.

          "Company" means New York Community Bancorp, Inc., a Delaware
     corporation, until there shall be a successor thereto pursuant to the
     applicable provision of this Unit Agreement, and thereafter "Company" shall
     mean such successor.

          "Corporate Trust Office" means the principal corporate trust office of
     the Unit Agent at which, at any particular time, its corporate trust
     business shall be administered, which office at the date of execution of
     this Unit Agreement is located at Wilmington Trust Company, 1100 North
     Market Street, Rodney Square North, Wilmington, Delaware 19890, Attention:
     Corporate Trust Administration.

          "Coupon Rate" means the percentage rate per annum at which each
     Debenture will bear interest initially which rate, on and after the
     Remarketing Date, will be the Reset Rate established in the Remarketing on
     the Remarketing Date.

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          "Debentures" means the 6.000% Junior Subordinated Deferrable Interest
     Debentures due November 1, 2051 to be issued by the Company pursuant to the
     Indenture.

          "Declaration" means the Amended and Restated Declaration of Trust of
     the Trust, dated as of ___________, 2002, among the Company, as the sponsor
     and the trustees named therein, as it may be amended.

          "Definitive Certificates" means definitive, physical fully registered
     Certificates delivered in accordance with Section 3.10.

          "Depositary" means DTC until another Clearing Agency becomes its
     successor.

          "Distribution Rate" has the meaning set forth in Section 5.1.

          "DTC" means The Depository Trust Company, the initial Clearing Agency.

          "Electing Remarketing Holder" has the meaning set forth in Section
     5.1.

          "ERISA" means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as
     amended.

          "Exchange Act" means the Units Exchange Act of 1934 and any statute
     successor thereto, in each case as amended from time to time, and the rules
     and regulations promulgated thereunder.

          "Exchange Agent" has the meaning set forth in the Declaration.

          "Exercise Price" has the meaning set forth in the Warrant Agreement.

          "Expiration Date" has the meaning set forth in the Warrant Agreement.

          "Global Unit" means a Certificate that evidences all or part of the
     Units and is registered in the name of a Clearing Agency or a nominee
     thereof.

          "Guarantee" has the meaning assigned to it in the Recitals hereto.

          "Guarantee Agreement" means the Guarantee Agreement, dated as of
     ___________, 2002, between the Company and the Guarantee Trustee, as
     amended or supplemented from time to time in accordance with its terms.

          "Guarantee Trustee" means Wilmington Trust Company, solely as trustee
     under the Guarantee Agreement, or any successor thereto.

          "Holder," when used with respect to a Unit, means the Person in whose
     name the Unit evidenced by a Certificate is registered in the Register;
     provided, however, that in determining whether the Holders of the requisite
     number of Units have voted on any matter, then for the purpose of such
     determination only (and not for any other purpose hereunder), if the
     Security remains in the form of one or more Global Units and if the
     Clearing Agency which is the holder of such Global Unit has sent an omnibus
     proxy assigning voting rights to the Clearing Agency Participants to whose
     accounts the Units are credited on the record date, the term "Holder" shall
     mean such Clearing Agency Participant identified to the Unit Agent in
     writing as such, acting at the direction of the Beneficial Owners.

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          "Indenture" means the Indenture, dated as of __________, 2002, between
     the Company and the Indenture Trustee, as amended by the First Supplemental
     Indenture, dated as of __________, 2002, as may be further amended and
     supplemented in accordance with its terms (including any provisions of the
     TIA that are deemed incorporated therein), pursuant to which the Debentures
     are to be issued.

          "Indenture Trustee" means Wilmington Trust Company, solely as trustee
     under the Indenture, or any successor thereto.

          "Issuer Order" or "Issuer Request" means a written request or order
     signed in the name of the Company by its President or a Vice Chair or a
     Senior Executive Vice President and by its Treasurer, its Secretary or an
     Assistant Secretary, and delivered to the Unit Agent.

          "Issuers" is a collective reference to the Company and the Trust.

          "Maturity Remarketing Date" has the meaning set forth in the
     Declaration.

          "Notice of Remarketing" means a Notice of Remarketing delivered
     pursuant to the Declaration.

          "Officers' Certificate" means a certificate signed by the President, a
     Vice Chair or a Senior Executive Vice President and by the Treasurer, the
     Secretary or an Assistant Secretary, of the Company, and delivered to the
     Unit Agent.

          "Opinion of Counsel" means a written opinion of counsel, who may be
     counsel for the Company (and who may be an employee of the Company), and
     who shall be reasonably acceptable to the Unit Agent. An opinion of counsel
     may rely on certificates as to matters of fact.

          "Optional Redemption Remarketing Event" has the meaning set forth in
     the Declaration.

          "Outstanding Units," with respect to any Unit means, as of the date of
     determination, all Units evidenced by Certificates theretofore
     authenticated, executed and delivered under this Unit Agreement, except:

               (i) Units evidenced by Certificates theretofore cancelled by the
          Unit Agent or delivered to the Unit Agent for cancellation or deemed
          cancelled pursuant to the provisions of this Unit Agreement; and

               (ii) Units evidenced by Certificates in exchange for or in lieu
          of which other Certificates have been authenticated, executed on
          behalf of the Issuers and delivered pursuant to this Unit Agreement,
          other than any such Certificate in respect of which there shall have
          been presented to the Unit Agent proof satisfactory to it that such
          Certificate is held by a protected purchaser in whose hands the
          Security evidenced by such Certificate are valid obligations of the
          Company;

     provided, however, that in determining whether the Holders of the requisite
     number of the Units have given any request, demand, authorization,
     direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder, Units owned by the Company
     or any Affiliate of the Company shall be disregarded and deemed not to be
     Outstanding Units, except that, in determining whether the Unit Agent shall
     be protected in relying upon any such request, demand, authorization,
     direction, notice, consent or waiver, only Units which a Responsible
     Officer of the Unit Agent actually knows to be so owned shall be

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     so disregarded. Units so owned which have been pledged in good faith may be
     regarded as Outstanding Units if the pledgee establishes to the
     satisfaction of the Unit Agent the pledgee's right so to act with respect
     to such Units and that the pledgee is not the Company or any Affiliate of
     the Company.

          "Party" or "Parties" have the respective meanings given to them in
     Section 12.1.

          "Payment Date" means each February 1, May 1, August 1 and November 1,
     commencing February 1, 2003.

          "Person" means a legal person, including any individual, corporation,
     estate, partnership, joint venture, association, joint-stock company,
     limited liability company, trust, unincorporated organization or government
     or any agency or political subdivision thereof or any other entity of
     whatever nature.

          "Plan" means an employee benefit plan that is subject to ERISA, a plan
     or individual retirement account that is subject to Section 4975 of the
     Code or any entity whose assets are considered assets of any such plan.

          "Predecessor Certificate" of any particular Certificate means every
     previous Certificate evidencing all or a portion of the rights and
     obligations of the Issuers and the Holder under the Units evidenced
     thereby; and, for the purposes of this definition, any Certificate
     authenticated and delivered under Section 3.11 in exchange for or in lieu
     of a mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Certificate shall be deemed to
     evidence the same rights and obligations of the Issuers and the Holder as
     the mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Certificate.

          "Preferred Securities" means the Preferred Securities of the Trust,
     each having a stated liquidation amount of $50.00, representing preferred
     undivided beneficial ownership interests in the Trust.

          "Property Trustee" means Wilmington Trust Company, solely as property
     trustee under the Declaration, or any successor thereto.

          "Record Date" with respect to any Payment Date, means the Business Day
     immediately preceding such Payment Date.

          "Register" and "Registrar" have the respective meanings given to them
     in Section 3.5.

          "Remarketing" has the meaning set forth in the Declaration.

          "Remarketing Agent" means the remarketing agent under the Remarketing
     Agreement.

          "Remarketing Agreement" means a Remarketing Agreement to be entered
     into among the Company, the Trust and the Remarketing Agent.

          "Remarketing Date" has the meaning set forth in the Declaration.

          "Remarketing Event" has the meaning set forth in the Declaration.

          "Remarketing Settlement Date" has the meaning set forth in the
     Declaration.

          "Required Repurchase Date" has the meaning set forth in the
     Declaration.

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          "Reset Rate" has the meaning set forth in the Declaration.

          "Responsible Officer," when used with respect to the Unit Agent, means
     any officer within the Corporate Trust Office of the Unit Agent (including
     any vice president, assistant vice president, assistant secretary,
     assistant treasurer, trust officer or any other officer of the Unit Agent
     who customarily performs functions similar to those performed by the
     Persons who at the time shall be such officers, respectively, or to whom
     any corporate trust matter is referred because of such person's knowledge
     of and familiarity with the particular subject) who shall have direct
     responsibility for the administration of this Unit Agreement.

          "Special Event Remarketing Event" has the meaning set forth in the
     Declaration.

          "TIA" means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended.

          "Trust" means New York Community Capital Trust V, a statutory trust
     formed under the laws of the State of Delaware, or any successor thereto.

          "Trust Securities" has the meaning set forth in the Recitals hereto.

          "Unit" or "Units" means the collective rights and obligations of a
     Holder of a Certificate in respect of a Preferred Security (and the related
     Debenture) (as applicable) and a Warrant.

          "Unit Agent" means the Person named as the "Unit Agent" in the first
     paragraph of this instrument, solely in such Unit Agent capacity, until a
     successor Unit Agent shall have become such pursuant to the applicable
     provisions of this Unit Agreement, and thereafter "Unit Agent" shall mean
     such Person.

          "Unit Agreement" means this instrument as originally executed or as it
     may from time to time be supplemented or amended by one or more agreements
     supplemental hereto entered into pursuant to the applicable provisions
     hereof.

          "Vice President" means any vice president, whether or not designated
     by a number or a word or words added before or after the title "vice
     president."

          "Warrant" or "Warrants" means the Warrants issued by the Company
     pursuant to the Warrant Agreement representing the right to purchase Common
     Stock.

          "Warrant Agent" means Wilmington Trust Company, solely as warrant
     agent under the Warrant Agreement, or any successor thereto.

          "Warrant Agreement" means the Warrant Agreement, dated as of ________,
     2002, between the Company and the Warrant Agent, as amended and
     supplemented, pursuant to which the Warrants are issued.

          "Warrant Value" has the meaning set forth in the Warrant Agreement.

Section 1.2.  Compliance Certificates and Opinions.

     Except as otherwise expressly provided by this Unit Agreement, upon any
application or request by the Company to the Unit Agent to take any action in
accordance with any provision of this Unit Agreement, the Company shall furnish
to the Unit Agent an Officers' Certificate stating that all

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conditions precedent, if any, provided for in this Unit Agreement relating to
the proposed action have been complied with and, if requested by the Unit Agent,
an Opinion of Counsel stating that, in the opinion of such counsel, all such
conditions precedent, if any, have been complied with, except that in the case
of any such application or request as to which the furnishing of such documents
is specifically required by any provision of this Unit Agreement relating to
such particular application or request, no additional certificate or opinion
need be furnished.

     Every certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with a condition or
covenant provided for in this Unit Agreement shall include:

          (1) a statement that each individual signing such certificate or
     opinion has read such covenant or condition and the definitions herein
     relating thereto;

          (2) a brief statement as to the nature and scope of the examination or
     investigation upon which the statements or opinions contained in such
     certificate or opinion are based;

          (3) a statement that, in the opinion of each such individual, he or
     she has made such examination or investigation as is necessary to enable
     such individual to express an informed opinion as to whether or not such
     covenant or condition has been complied with; and

          (4) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of each such individual,
     such condition or covenant has been complied with.

     Section 1.3. Form of Documents Delivered to Unit Agent.

     In any case where several matters are required to be certified by, or
covered by an opinion of, any specified Person, it is not necessary that all
such matters be certified by, or covered by the opinion of, only one such
Person, or that they be so certified or covered by only one document, but one
such Person may certify or give an opinion with respect to some matters and one
or more other such Persons as to other matters, and any such Person may certify
or give an opinion as to such matters in one or several documents.

     Any certificate or opinion of an officer of an Issuer may be based, insofar
as it relates to legal matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or
representations by, counsel, unless such officer knows, or in the exercise of
reasonable care should know, that the certificate or opinion or representations
with respect to the matters upon which his certificate or opinion is based are
erroneous. Any such certificate or Opinion of Counsel may be based, insofar as
it relates to factual matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or
representations by, an officer or officers of the Company stating that the
information with respect to such factual matters is in the possession of the
Company unless such counsel knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care should
know, that the certificate or opinion or representations with respect to such
matters are erroneous.

     Where any Person is required to make, give or execute two or more
applications, requests, consents, certificates, statements, opinions or other
instruments under this Unit Agreement, they may, but need not, be consolidated
and form one instrument.

     Section 1.4. Acts of Holders; Record Dates.

     (a) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver
or other action provided by this Unit Agreement to be given or taken by Holders
may be embodied in and evidenced by one or more instruments of substantially
similar tenor signed by such Holders personally or by an agent

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duly appointed in writing; and, except as herein otherwise expressly provided,
such action shall become effective when such instrument or instruments are
delivered to the Unit Agent and, where it is hereby expressly required, to the
Company. Such instrument or instruments (and the action embodied therein and
evidenced thereby) are herein sometimes referred to as the "Act" of the Holders
signing such instrument or instruments. Proof of execution of any such
instrument or of a writing appointing any such agent shall be sufficient for any
purpose of this Unit Agreement and (subject to Section 7.1) conclusive in favor
of the Unit Agent and the Company, if made in the manner provided in this
Section.

     (b) The fact and date of the execution by any Person of any such instrument
or writing may be proved in any manner which the Unit Agent deems sufficient.

     (c) The Holders of Units shall be proved by the Register.

     (d) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver
or other Act of the Holder of any Certificate shall bind every future Holder of
the same Certificate and the Holder of every Certificate issued upon the
registration of transfer thereof or in exchange therefor or in lieu thereof in
respect of anything done, omitted or suffered to be done by the Unit Agent or
the Company in reliance thereon, whether or not notation of such action is made
upon such Certificate.

     (e) The Company may set any day as a record date for the purpose of
determining the Holders of Outstanding Units entitled to give, make or take any
request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other
action provided or permitted by this Unit Agreement to be given, made or taken
by Holders of Units. If any record date is set pursuant to this paragraph, the
Holders of the Outstanding Units as proved by the Register, on such record date,
and no other Holders, shall be entitled to take the relevant action with respect
to the Units, whether or not such Holders remain Holders after such record
date; provided that no such action shall be effective hereunder unless taken on
or prior to the applicable Action Expiration Date by Holders of the requisite
number of Outstanding Units on such record date. Nothing in this paragraph shall
be construed to prevent the Company from setting a new record date for any
action for which a record date has previously been set pursuant to this
paragraph (whereupon the record date previously set shall automatically and with
no action by any Person be cancelled and be of no effect), and nothing in this
paragraph shall be construed to render ineffective any action taken by Holders
of the requisite number of Outstanding Units on the date such action is taken.
Promptly after any record date is set pursuant to this paragraph, the Company,
at its own expense, shall cause notice of such record date, the proposed action
by Holders and the applicable Action Expiration Date to be given to the Unit
Agent in writing and to each Holder of Units in the manner set forth in Section
1.6.

         With respect to any record date set pursuant to this Section, the
Company may designate any date as the "Action Expiration Date" and from time to
time may change the Action Expiration Date to any earlier or later day; provided
that no such change shall be effective unless notice of the proposed new Action
Expiration Date is given to the Unit Agent in writing, and to each Holder of
Units in the manner set forth in Section 1.6, on or prior to the existing Action
Expiration Date. If an Action Expiration Date is not designated with respect to
any record date set pursuant to this Section, the Company shall be deemed to
have initially designated the 180th day after such record date as the Action
Expiration Date with respect thereto, subject to its right to change the Action
Expiration Date as provided in this paragraph. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no
Action Expiration Date shall be later than the 180th day after the applicable
record date.

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     Section 1.5. Notices.

     Any notice or communication is duly given if in writing and delivered in
Person or mailed by first class mail (registered or certified, return receipt
requested), telecopier (with receipt confirmed) or overnight air courier
guaranteeing next day delivery, to the others' address; provided that notice
shall be deemed given to the Unit Agent only upon receipt thereof:

          If to the Unit Agent:

              Wilmington Trust Company, as Agent
              1100 North Market Street
              Rodney Square North
              Wilmington, Delaware  19890
              Telecopier No.:     (302) 636-4140
              Attention:    Corporate Trust Administration

          If to the Company:

              New York Community Bancorp, Inc.
              615 Merrick Avenue
              Westbury, New York  11590
              Telecopier No.:     (516) 683-8385
              Attention:    Chief Executive Officer

          If to the Trust:

              New York Community Capital Trust V, c/o New York Community
                Bancorp. Inc.
              615 Merrick Avenue
              Westbury, New York  11590
              Telecopier No.:     (516) 683-8385
              Attention:    Joseph Ficalora, Administrative Trustee, c/o Chief
                            Executive Officer of New York Community
                            Bancorp, Inc.

          If to the Warrant Agent:

              Wilmington Trust Company, as Warrant Agent
              1100 North Market Street
              Rodney Square North
              Wilmington, Delaware  19890
              Telecopier No.:     (302) 636-4140
              Attention:    Corporate Trust Administration

          If to the Property Trustee:

              Wilmington Trust Company, as Property Trustee
              1100 North Market Street
              Rodney Square North
              Wilmington, Delaware  19890
              Telecopier No.:     (302) 636-4140
              Attention:    Corporate Trust Administration

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          If to the Indenture Trustee:

              Wilmington Trust Company, as Indenture Trustee
              1100 North Market Street
              Rodney Square North
              Wilmington, Delaware  19890
              Telecopier No.:     (302) 636-4140
              Attention:    Corporate Trust Administration

     Section 1.6. Notice to Holders; Waiver.

     Where this Unit Agreement provides for notice to Holders of any event, such
notice shall be sufficiently given (unless otherwise herein expressly provided)
if in writing and mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to each Holder affected
by such event, at its address as it appears in the Register, not later than the
latest date, and not earlier than the earliest date, prescribed for the giving
of such notice. In any case where notice to Holders is given by mail, neither
the failure to mail such notice, nor any defect in any notice so mailed to any
particular Holder shall affect the sufficiency of such notice with respect to
other Holders. Where this Unit Agreement provides for notice in any manner, such
notice may be waived in writing by the Person entitled to receive such notice,
either before or after the event, and such waiver shall be the equivalent of
such notice. Waivers of notice by Holders shall be filed with the Unit Agent,
but such filing shall not be a condition precedent to the validity of any action
taken in reliance upon such waiver.

     In case by reason of the suspension of regular mail service or by reason of
any other cause it shall be impracticable to give such notice by mail, then such
notification as shall be made with the approval of the Unit Agent shall
constitute a sufficient notification for every purpose hereunder.

     Section 1.7. Effect of Headings and Table of Contents.

     The Article and Section headings herein and the Table of Contents are for
convenience only and shall not affect the construction hereof.

     Section 1.8. Successors and Assigns.

     All covenants and agreements in this Unit Agreement by the Company shall
bind its successors and assigns, whether so expressed or not.

     Section 1.9. Separability Clause.

     In case any provision in this Unit Agreement or in the Units shall be
invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of
the remaining provisions hereof and thereof shall not in any way be affected or
impaired thereby.

     Section 1.10. Benefits of Agreement.

     Nothing in this Unit Agreement or in the Units, express or implied, shall
give to any Person, other than the parties hereto and their successors hereunder
and, to the extent provided hereby, the Holders, any benefits or any legal or
equitable right, remedy or claim under this Unit Agreement. The Holders from
time to time shall be beneficiaries of this Unit Agreement and shall be bound by
all of the terms and conditions hereof and of the Units evidenced by their
Certificates by their acceptance of delivery of such Certificates.

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     Section 1.11. Governing Law.

     This Agreement and the Units shall be governed by and construed in
accordance with the laws of the State of New York, without regard to principles
of conflicts of laws.

     Section 1.12. Legal Holidays.

     In any case where any Payment Date shall not be a Business Day, then
(notwithstanding any other provision of this Unit Agreement or the Certificates)
payment of any amounts otherwise payable on such date shall not be made on such
date, but such payments shall be made on the next succeeding Business Day with
the same force and effect as if made on such Payment Date, provided that no
interest shall accrue or be payable for the period from and after any such
Payment Date, except that, if such next succeeding Business Day is in the next
succeeding calendar year, such payment shall be made on the immediately
preceding Business Day with the same force and effect as if made on such Payment
Date.

     Section 1.13. Counterparts.

     This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts by the parties
hereto on separate counterparts, each of which, when so executed and delivered,
shall be deemed an original, but all such counterparts shall together constitute
one and the same instrument.

     Section 1.14. Inspection of Agreement.

     A copy of this Unit Agreement shall be available at all reasonable times,
upon written request and reasonable advance notice to the Unit Agent, during
normal business hours at the Corporate Trust Office for inspection by any Holder
or Beneficial Owner identified to the Unit Agent in writing as such.

                                   ARTICLE II

                                Certificate Forms

     Section 2.1. Forms of Certificates Generally; Legends.

     (a) Each Unit will consist of one Preferred Security and one Warrant. The
Certificates shall be printed, lithographed or engraved on steel engraved
borders or may be produced in any other manner, all as determined by the
officers of the Company executing the Units evidenced by such Certificates,
consistent with the provisions of this Unit Agreement, as evidenced by their
execution thereof.

     (b) Every Global Unit authenticated, executed and delivered hereunder shall
bear a legend in substantially the following form:

     "THIS CERTIFICATE IS A GLOBAL UNIT WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE UNIT AGREEMENT
HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST
COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION (THE "DEPOSITARY"), OR A NOMINEE OF THE
DEPOSITARY. THIS CERTIFICATE IS EXCHANGEABLE FOR CERTIFICATES REGISTERED IN THE
NAME OF A PERSON OTHER THAN THE DEPOSITARY OR ITS NOMINEE ONLY IN THE LIMITED
CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE UNIT AGREEMENT AND NO TRANSFER OF THIS
CERTIFICATE (OTHER THAN A TRANSFER OF THIS CERTIFICATE AS A WHOLE BY THE
DEPOSITARY TO A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY OR BY A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY TO
THE DEPOSITARY OR ANOTHER

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NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY) MAY BE REGISTERED EXCEPT IN LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES.

     UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE
DEPOSITARY OR ITS NOMINEE FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND
ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR SUCH OTHER
NAME AS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITARY OR ITS
NOMINEE (AND ANY PAYMENT HEREON IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS
IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITARY OR ITS NOMINEE),
ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY
PERSON IS WRONGFUL SINCE THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN
INTEREST HEREIN.

     Every Certificate (whether a Global Unit or a Definitive Certificate)
representing a Unit shall bear a legend to the following effect:

     THE CONSTITUENT COMPONENTS OF THIS UNIT MUST BE SEPARATED PRIOR TO TRANSFER
     (EXCEPT AS PART OF A UNIT) AS PROVIDED IN THE UNIT AGREEMENT."

     Finally, the Warrants and Preferred Securities which constitute components
of the Units shall bear additional legends as described in the Warrant Agreement
and Declaration, respectively.

     Section 2.2. Form of Unit Agent's Certificate of Authentication.

     The form of the Unit Agent's certificate of authentication of the Units
shall be in substantially the form set forth on Exhibit A.

                                  ARTICLE III

                                    The Units

     Section 3.1. Amount; Form and Denominations.

     The aggregate number of Units evidenced by Certificates authenticated,
executed and delivered hereunder is limited to [5,500,000] except for
Certificates authenticated, executed and delivered upon registration of transfer
of, in exchange for, or in lieu of, other Certificates pursuant to Section 3.4,
3.5, 3.10, 3.13 or 8.5.

     The Certificates shall be issuable only in registered form and only in
denominations of a single Security and any integral multiple thereof.

     On the date of issuance of the Global Units, the Company shall allocate
$33.18 of the purchase price thereof to the Preferred Securities and $16.82 of
the purchase price to the Warrants.

     Section 3.2. Rights and Obligations Evidenced by the Certificates.

     Each Certificate shall evidence the number of Units specified therein, with
each such Security representing the ownership by the Holder thereof of a
beneficial interest in a Preferred Security (or Debenture upon a liquidation of
the Trust) and a Warrant and shall be entitled to the benefits of the
Declaration, the Indenture, the Warrant Agreement and all agreements ancillary
thereto.

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     Section 3.3. Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating.

     Subject to the provisions of Section 3.6 hereof, upon the execution and
delivery of this Unit Agreement, and at any time and from time to time
thereafter, the Company and the Trust may deliver Certificates executed by the
Company and an Administrative Trustee on behalf of the Trust to the Unit Agent
for authentication and delivery, together with an Issuer Order for
authentication of such Certificates, and the Unit Agent in accordance with such
Issuer Order shall authenticate and deliver such Certificates, provided, that
prior to authenticating such Units, and accepting responsibilities under this
Agreement in relation to such Units, the Unit Agent shall be entitled to
receive, and, shall be fully protected in relying upon:

          (a) copy of the resolution or resolutions of the Board of Directors in
     or pursuant to which the terms and form of the Units were established,
     certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company to have
     been duly adopted by the Board of Directors and to be in full force and
     effect as of the date of such certificate, and if the terms and form of
     such Units are established by an Officers' Certificate pursuant to general
     authorization of the Board of Directors, such Officers' Certificate;

          (b) an Officers' Certificate delivered in accordance with Section 1.3;
     and

          (c) an Opinion of Counsel which shall state:

               (1) that the terms of such Units have been established in
          accordance with Section 2.1 and in conformity with the other
          provisions of this Unit Agreement;

               (2) that such Units, when authenticated and delivered by the Unit
          Agent and issued by the Company and the Trust in the manner and
          subject to any conditions specified in such Opinion of Counsel, will
          constitute valid and legally binding obligations of the Company and
          the Trust, enforceable in accordance with their terms, subject to
          bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization and other laws of general
          applicability relating to or affecting the enforcement of creditors'
          rights and to general equity principles; and

               (3) that all laws and requirements in respect of the execution
          and delivery by the Company and the Trust with respect to such Units
          have been complied with.

     The Unit Agent shall have the right to decline to authenticate and deliver
any Units under this Section if the Unit Agent, being advised by counsel,
determines that such action may not lawfully be taken or if the Unit Agent in
good faith shall determine that such action would expose the Unit Agent to
personal liability.

     The Certificates shall be executed on behalf of the Company (in respect of
the Warrants) by its President, a Vice Chair or a Senior Executive Vice
President, and shall be executed on behalf of the Trust (in respect of the
Preferred Securities) by an Administrative Trustee. The signature of any of
these signatories on the Certificates may be manual or facsimile.

     Certificates bearing the manual or facsimile signatures of individuals who
were at any time the proper officers of the Company shall bind the Company,
notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them have ceased to hold such
offices prior to the authentication and delivery of such Certificates or did not
hold such offices at the date of such Certificates. Certificates bearing the
manual or facsimile signatures of individuals who were at any time
Administrative Trustees of the Trust shall bind the Trust, notwithstanding that
such individuals or any of them have ceased to hold such offices prior to the

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authentication and delivery of such Certificates or did not hold such offices at
the date of such Certificates.

     Each Certificate shall be dated the date of its authentication.

     No Certificate shall be entitled to any benefit under this Unit Agreement
or be valid or obligatory for any purpose unless there appears on such
Certificate a certificate of authentication substantially in the form provided
for herein executed by an authorized signatory of the Unit Agent by manual
signature, and such certificate upon any Certificate shall be conclusive
evidence, and the only evidence, that such Certificate has been duly
authenticated and delivered hereunder.

     Section 3.4. Temporary Certificates.

     Pending the preparation of definitive Certificates, the Company shall
execute and deliver to the Unit Agent, and, upon Issuer Order and subject to
Section 1.2, the Unit Agent shall authenticate and deliver, in lieu of such
Definitive Certificates, temporary Certificates which are in substantially the
form set forth in Exhibit A hereto, with such letters, numbers or other marks of
identification or designation and such legends or endorsements printed,
lithographed or engraved thereon as may be required by the rules of any
securities exchange on which the Units are listed, or as may, consistently
herewith, be determined by the officers of the Company executing such
Certificates, as evidenced by their execution of the Certificates.

     If temporary Certificates are issued, the Company will cause Definitive
Certificates to be prepared without unreasonable delay. After the preparation of
Definitive Certificates, the temporary Certificates shall be exchangeable for
Definitive Certificates upon surrender of the temporary Certificates at the
Corporate Trust Office, at the expense of the Company and without charge to the
Holder. Upon surrender for cancellation of any one or more temporary
Certificates, the Company shall execute and deliver to the Unit Agent, and, upon
Issuer Order and subjection to Section 1.2, the Unit Agent shall authenticate
and deliver in exchange therefor, one or more Definitive Certificates of like
tenor and denominations and evidencing a like number of Units as the temporary
Certificate or Certificates so surrendered. Until so exchanged, the temporary
Certificates shall in all respects evidence the same benefits and the same
obligations with respect to the Units evidenced thereby as Definitive
Certificates.

     Section 3.5. Registration; Registration of Transfer and Exchange.

     (a) The Unit Agent shall keep at the Corporate Trust Office a register (the
"Register") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may
prescribe, the Unit Agent shall provide for the registration of Certificates and
of transfers of Certificates (the Unit Agent, in such capacity, the
"Registrar").

     No beneficial interest in a Warrant or a Preferred Security that is a
component of a Unit represented by a Certificate may be transferred or exchanged
(except by a transfer or exchange of such Unit) until such components have been
separated in accordance with Section 3.6 hereof, and each Certificate shall bear
a legend to that effect.

     Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at the
Corporate Trust Office, the Company shall execute and deliver to the Unit Agent,
and the Unit Agent shall authenticate, execute on behalf of the designated
transferee or transferees, and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee
or transferees, one or more new Certificates of any authorized denominations,
like tenor, and evidencing a like number of Units.

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     At the option of the Holder, Certificates may be exchanged for other
Certificates, of any authorized denominations and evidencing a like number of
Securities upon surrender of the Certificates to be exchanged at the Corporate
Trust Office. Whenever any Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the
Company and the Trust shall execute and deliver to the Unit Agent, and the Unit
Agent shall authenticate and deliver the Certificates which the Holder making
the exchange is entitled to receive.

     All Certificates issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of a
Certificate shall evidence the ownership of the same number of Securities, and
be entitled to the same benefits and subject to the same obligations, under this
Unit Agreement as the Securities evidenced by the Certificate surrendered upon
such registration of transfer or exchange.

     Every Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or
for exchange shall (if so required by the Unit Agent) be duly endorsed, or be
accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the
Company, the Trust and the Unit Agent duly executed, by the Holder thereof or
its attorney duly authorized in writing.

     No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or
exchange of a Certificate, but Company and the Unit Agent may require payment
from the Holder of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental
charge that may be imposed in connection with any registration of transfer or
exchange of Certificates, other than any exchanges pursuant to Sections 3.6, 3.7
and 8.5 not involving any transfer and the Trust.

     Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company and the Trust shall not be
obligated to execute and deliver to the Unit Agent, and the Unit Agent shall not
be obligated to authenticate, execute on behalf of the Holder and deliver any
Certificate in exchange for any other Certificate presented or surrendered for
registration of transfer or for exchange on or after the Business Day
immediately preceding the Expiration Date. In lieu of delivery of a new
Certificate, upon satisfaction of the applicable conditions specified above in
this Section and receipt of appropriate registration or transfer instructions
from such Holder, the Unit Agent shall deliver the consideration received on
such Expiration Date (which may be shares of Common Stock issuable in respect of
the exercise of Warrants forming a part of the Securities evidenced by such
other Certificate, Warrant Value receivable upon a redemption of such Warrants
or Remarketing Proceeds receivable upon a contemporaneous remarketing of the
Preferred Securities forming a part of the Securities evidenced by such other
Certificate), subject to the applicable conditions and in accordance with the
applicable provisions of Article Five hereof.

     Section 3.6. Separation and Rejoining of Units.

     Each Global Unit shall represent such of the outstanding Units as shall be
specified in the "Schedule of Increases or Decreases in Global Certificate"
attached thereto or otherwise in accordance with the Applicable Procedures. At
any time after issuance, the Preferred Security and Warrant components of any
Security may be separated by the Holder and thereafter transferred separately
and, (i) in the event of an election to exercise the Warrant component prior to
the Remarketing Settlement Date (as provided in Section 5.2), (ii) in the event
of an election to have Warrants redeemed or Preferred Securities repurchased
upon a Change of Control (in each case, pursuant to Section 5.3) or (iii) in the
event of a Remarketing, the Preferred Security and Warrant components of any
Security shall be separated. In the event of any separation of the components of
a Security, (i) if such Security is represented by a Definitive Certificate, the
Holder shall present such Definitive Certificate to the Unit Agent for
cancellation and the Unit Agent shall so notify the Registrar and shall return
the Preferred Security and Warrant components of such Security to the Property
Trustee and Warrant Agent, respectively, with an instruction for them to
authenticate and deliver to, or upon the instruction of, such Holder a separated
Preferred Security and a separated Warrant, bearing the separate "CUSIP" number

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assigned to the Preferred Security and the Warrant, respectively, and (ii) if
such Security is represented by the Global Unit, the Unit Agent shall make the
necessary adjustment to the "Schedule of Increases or Decreases in Global
Certificate" attached to the Global Unit or otherwise comply with the Applicable
Procedures to reduce the amount of Units represented thereby and shall instruct
the Property Trustee and the Warrant Agent to effect a corresponding increase in
the Preferred Securities and the Warrants, respectively, represented by global
certificates bearing separate "CUSIP" numbers. The Unit Agent shall make such
other necessary adjustments to the Global Unit actually known to the Unit Agent
consistent with the terms of this Agreement to reflect the appropriate number of
Units represented thereby.

     Following a Remarketing of the Preferred Securities component of a
Security, (i) if such Security is represented by a Definitive Certificate, the
Holder shall present such Definitive Certificate to the Unit Agent for
cancellation and the Unit Agent shall so notify the Registrar and shall return
the Preferred Security and Warrant components of such Security to the Property
Trustee and Warrant Agent, respectively, with an instruction for the Property
Trustee to authenticate and deliver to, or upon the written instruction of the
Remarketing Agent a Preferred Security bearing the separate "CUSIP" number
assigned to the Preferred Security and (ii) if such Security is represented by
the Global Unit, the Unit Agent shall, in accordance with the written
instructions of the Remarketing Agent, make the necessary adjustment to the
"Schedule of Increases or Decreases in Global Certificate" attached to the
Global Unit or otherwise comply with the Applicable Procedures to reduce the
amount of Units represented thereby and shall instruct the Property Trustee to
effect a corresponding increase in the Preferred Securities represented by
global certificates bearing the separate "CUSIP" number. The Unit Agent shall
make such other necessary adjustments to the Global Unit consistent with the
terms of this agreement to reflect the appropriate number of Units represented
thereby.

     Once separated in accordance with Section 5.2, a Preferred Security and a
Warrant may be rejoined to form a Security, whether or not such securities were
at one time components of the same Security. In the event a holder of a
Preferred Security and a Warrant desires to rejoin a Security, (i) if the
constituent components are represented by definitive certificates, the holder
shall present (x) the Preferred Security to the Property Trustee and (y) the
Warrant to the Warrant Agent, in each case for cancellation and the Property
Trustee and the Warrant Agent shall so notify the Unit Agent in writing, who
shall in turn so notify the Registrar and shall, upon Issuer Order and subject
to Section 1.2, authenticate and deliver to, or upon the written instruction of,
such holder a Security bearing the separate "CUSIP" number assigned to the
Units, and (ii) if the constituent components are represented by global
certificates, each of the Property Trustee and the Warrant Agent shall make the
necessary adjustment to their respective global certificates or otherwise comply
with the Applicable Procedures to reduce the amount of Preferred Securities and
Warrants, respectively, represented thereby and shall instruct Unit Agent in
writing to effect a corresponding increase in the Units represented by the
Global Unit bearing separate "CUSIP" number. The Unit Agent, the Property
Trustee, and the Warrant Agent shall make such other necessary adjustments to
their respective global certificates actually known to them consistent with the
terms of this Agreement to reflect the appropriate number of Units, Preferred
Securities and Warrants, as appropriate, represented thereby.

     The Unit Agent is authorized and empowered to deliver such further
directions to the Property Trustee, the Warrant Agent, the Exchange Agent and
others, and to take such further actions as shall be necessary to effect the
exchanges, separations, transfers and recreations contemplated by Section 3.5
and 3.6.

     Section 3.7. Book-Entry Interests.

     The Certificates, on original issuance, will be issued in the form of one
or more fully registered Global Units, to be delivered to the Depositary by, or
on behalf of, the Company. Such Global Unit shall

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initially be registered on the books and records of the Company and the Trust in
the name of Cede & Co., the nominee of the Depositary, and no Beneficial Owner
will receive a Definitive Certificate representing such Beneficial Owner's
interest in such Global Unit, except as provided in Section 3.10. The Unit Agent
is hereby authorized to enter into an agreement with the Depositary if so
requested by the Company, and in doing so the Unit Agent shall be entitled to
all of the benefits and protections of this Agreement and, unless otherwise
directed by the Depository, the Unit Agent is hereby authorized to hold the
Certificates evidencing Global Units as custodians for the Depository. Unless
and until Definitive Certificates have been issued to Beneficial Owners pursuant
to Section 3.10:

          (a) the provisions of this Section 3.7 shall be in full force and
     effect;

          (b) the Company shall be entitled to deal with the Clearing Agency for
     all purposes of this Unit Agreement as the Holder of the Units and the sole
     holder of the Global Unit(s) and shall have no obligation to the Beneficial
     Owners;

          (c) to the extent that the provisions of this Section 3.7 conflict
     with any other provisions of this Unit Agreement, the provisions of this
     Section 3.7 shall control; and

          (d) the rights of the Beneficial Owners shall be exercised only
     through the Clearing Agency and shall be limited to those established by
     law and agreements between such Beneficial Owners and the Clearing Agency
     and/or the Clearing Agency Participants.

     Section 3.8. Notices to Holders.

     Whenever a notice or other communication to the Holders is required to be
given under this Unit Agreement, such notices and communications shall be given
to the Holders and, with respect to any Units registered in the name of a
Clearing Agency or the nominee of a Clearing Agency, the Company or the
Company's agent shall have no obligations to the Beneficial Owners.

     Section 3.9. Appointment of Successor Clearing Agency.

     If any Clearing Agency elects to discontinue its services as securities
depositary with respect to the Units , the Company may, in its sole discretion,
appoint a successor Clearing Agency with respect to the Units.

     Section 3.10. Definitive Certificates.

     If (i) a Clearing Agency elects to discontinue its services as securities
depositary with respect to the Units and a successor Clearing Agency is not
appointed within 90 days after such discontinuance pursuant to Section 3.9 or
(ii) there shall have occurred and be continuing a default by the Company in
respect of its obligations under the Warrant Agreement, the Indenture, the
Declaration or this Unit Agreement, upon surrender of the Global Units
representing the Units by the Clearing Agency, accompanied by registration
instructions, the Company and the Trust shall cause Definitive Certificates to
be delivered to Beneficial Owners in accordance with the instructions of the
Clearing Agency. The Company shall not be liable for any delay in delivery of
such instructions and may conclusively rely on and shall be protected in relying
on, such instructions.

     Section 3.11. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Certificates.

     If any mutilated Certificate is surrendered to the Unit Agent, the Company
shall execute and deliver to the Unit Agent, and the Unit Agent, upon Issuer
Order and subject to Section 1.2, shall

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authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor, a new Certificate, evidencing the
same number of Units and bearing a Certificate number not contemporaneously
outstanding.

     If there shall be delivered to the Company and the Unit Agent (i) evidence
to their satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Certificate, and
(ii) such security or indemnity as may be required by them to hold each of them
and any agent of any of them harmless, then, in the absence of notice to the
Company and the Trust or the Unit Agent that such Certificate has been acquired
by a protected purchaser, the Company and the Trust shall execute and deliver to
the Unit Agent, and the Unit Agent, upon Issuer Order and subject to Section
1.2, shall authenticate and deliver to the Holder, in lieu of any such
destroyed, lost or stolen Certificate, a new Certificate, evidencing the same
number of Units and bearing a Certificate number not contemporaneously
outstanding.

     Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company shall not be obligated to
execute and deliver to the Unit Agent, and the Unit Agent shall not be obligated
to authenticate and deliver to the Holder, a Certificate on or after the
Business Day immediately preceding the Expiration Date. In lieu of delivery of a
new Certificate, upon satisfaction of the applicable conditions specified above
in this Section and receipt of appropriate registration or transfer instructions
from such Holder, the Unit Agent shall deliver (subject to its actual receipt
thereof) the consideration received by the Unit Agent on such Expiration Date
(which may be (i) shares of Common Stock issuable in respect of the exercise of
Warrants pursuant to the Warrant Agreement, (ii) the Warrant Value receivable
upon a redemption of such Warrants pursuant to the Warrant Agreement or (iii)
proceeds of a Remarketing receivable upon a contemporaneous remarketing of the
Preferred Securities forming a part of the Units evidenced by such other
Certificate as provided in the Declaration).

     Upon the issuance of any new Certificate under this Section, the Company,
the Trust, and the Unit Agent may require the payment by the Holder of a sum
sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in
relation thereto and any other expenses (including the fees and expenses of the
Unit Agent) connected therewith.

     Every new Certificate issued pursuant to this Section in lieu of any
destroyed, lost or stolen Certificate shall constitute an original additional
contractual obligation of the Company and of the Holder in respect of the
Security evidenced thereby, whether or not the destroyed, lost or stolen
Certificate (and the Units evidenced thereby) shall be at any time enforceable
by anyone, and shall be entitled to all the benefits and be subject to all the
obligations of this Unit Agreement equally and proportionately with any and all
other Certificates delivered hereunder.

     The provisions of this Section are exclusive and shall preclude (to the
extent lawful) all other rights and remedies with respect to the replacement or
payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Certificates.

     Section 3.12. Persons Deemed Owners.

     Prior to due presentment of a Certificate for registration of transfer, the
Company, the Trust, the Unit Agent, the Property Trustee, and the Warrant Agent
and any agent of any of them may treat the Holder in whose name such Certificate
is registered as the owner of the Security evidenced thereby, for the purpose of
receiving payments on the Preferred Securities, the Debentures, or the Warrants
and for all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not any payments on the
Preferred Securities, the Debentures or the Warrants shall be overdue and
notwithstanding any notice to the contrary, and none of the Company, the Trust,
the Unit Agent, the Property Trustee, and the Warrant Agent, nor any agent of
any of them, shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

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     Notwithstanding the foregoing, with respect to any Global Unit, nothing
herein shall prevent the Company, the Trust, the Unit Agent or any agent of the
Company, the Trust or the Unit Agent, from giving effect to any written
certification, proxy or other authorization furnished by any Clearing Agency (or
its nominee), as a Holder, with respect to such Global Unit or impair, as
between such Clearing Agency and owners of beneficial interests in such Global
Unit, the operation of customary practices governing the exercise of rights of
such Clearing Agency (or its nominee) as Holder of such Global Unit.

     Section 3.13. Cancellation.

     All Certificates surrendered (i) for separation as provided in Section 3.6
hereof, (ii) in connection with a remarketing and redemption as provided in the
Declaration, the Warrant Agreement and Article V hereof or (iii) upon the
transfer of Preferred Securities, Debentures (as applicable) or Warrants upon
the registration of a transfer or exchange of a Security or any of its
components shall, if surrendered to any Person other than the Unit Agent, be
delivered to the Unit Agent and, if not already cancelled, shall be promptly
cancelled by it upon such surrender. The Company and the Trust may at any time
deliver to the Unit Agent for cancellation any Certificates previously
authenticated, executed and delivered hereunder which the Company and the Trust
may have acquired in any manner whatsoever, and all Certificates so delivered
shall, upon Issuer Order, be promptly cancelled by the Unit Agent. No
Certificates shall be authenticated, executed and delivered in lieu of or in
exchange for any Certificates cancelled as provided in this Section, except as
expressly permitted by this Unit Agreement. All cancelled Certificates held by
the Unit Agent shall be held by the Unit Agent or returned to the Company
pursuant to an Issuer Order.

     If the Company, the Trust or any Affiliate of the Company shall acquire any
Certificate, such acquisition shall not operate as a cancellation of such
Certificate unless and until such Certificate is delivered to the Unit Agent for
cancellation together with an Issuer Order therefor.

     Section 3.14. CUSIP Numbers.

     The Company, in issuing the Units , may use "CUSIP" numbers (if then
generally in use), and, if so, the Unit Agent shall use "CUSIP" numbers actually
known to it in notices of redemption as a convenience to Holders; provided that
any such notice may state that no representation is made as to the correctness
of such numbers either as printed on the Units or as contained in any notice of
a redemption and that reliance may be placed only on the other identification
numbers printed on the Units, and any such redemption shall not be affected by
any defect in or omission of such numbers. The Company will promptly notify the
Unit Agent in writing of any change in the "CUSIP" numbers.

                                   ARTICLE IV

                            The Preferred Securities

     Section 4.1. Payment of Distribution; Rights to Distributions Preserved;
Distribution Rate Reset.

     Distributions on the Preferred Securities which are made on any Payment
Date shall, subject to receipt thereof by the Unit Agent, be payable to the
Holders as they appear on the books and records of the Unit Agent at the close
of business on the relevant Record Dates. Distributions on the Preferred
Securities which are made on any Remarketing Settlement Date shall, subject to
receipt thereof by the Unit Agent, be payable to (or, in the case of Section
5.1, for the account of) the Holders as they appear on the books and records of
the Unit Agent at the close of business on the Remarketing Date. If the Units
are represented by one or more Global Units, the relevant Record Dates shall be
the close of business on the Business Day preceding the corresponding Payment
Date, unless a different Record Date is established or

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provided for the corresponding distributions on the Preferred Securities. If the
Units are not represented by one or more Global Units, the relevant Record Dates
shall be at least one Business Day prior to the corresponding Payment Dates, or
such other dates as may be selected by the Unit Agent.

     Each Certificate evidencing Preferred Securities (including rights to
receive Debentures) delivered under this Unit Agreement upon registration of
transfer of or in exchange for or in lieu of any other Certificate shall carry
the rights to distributions accumulated and unpaid, and to accumulate
distributions, which were carried by the Preferred Securities (or such
Debentures) underlying such other Certificate.

     The applicable Coupon Rate on the Debentures on and after the Remarketing
Date shall be equal to the Reset Rate established in the Remarketing on such
date.

     Section 4.2. Notice and Voting.

     The Unit Agent will be entitled to exercise the voting and any other
consensual rights pertaining to the Preferred Securities, Debentures (as
applicable) and Warrants, as the case may be, but only to the extent instructed
in writing by the Holders as described below and in Article V. Upon receipt of
written notice of any meeting at which holders of Preferred Securities,
Debentures or Warrants are entitled to vote or upon any solicitation of
consents, waivers or proxies of holders of Preferred Securities, Debentures or
Warrants, the Unit Agent shall, as soon as practicable thereafter, mail to the
Holders of Units a notice (a) containing such information as is contained in the
notice or solicitation, (b) stating that each Holder on the record date set by
the Unit Agent therefor (which, to the extent possible, shall be the same date
as the record date for determining the holders of Preferred Securities,
Debentures or Warrants, as the case may be, entitled to vote) shall be entitled
to instruct the Unit Agent in writing as to the exercise of the voting rights
pertaining to such Preferred Securities, Debentures or Warrants underlying their
Security and (c) stating the manner in which such written instructions may be
given. Upon the written request of the Holders of Units as of such record date
received by the Unit Agent at least six days prior to such meeting, the Unit
Agent shall endeavor insofar as practicable to vote or cause to be voted, in
accordance with the instructions set forth in such requests, the maximum number
of Preferred Securities, Debentures or Warrants, as the case may be, as to which
any particular voting instructions are received. In the absence of specific
instructions from the Holder of a Security, the Unit Agent shall abstain from
voting the Preferred Securities, Debentures or Warrants underlying such
Security. The Company hereby agrees to solicit Holders of Units to timely
instruct the Unit Agent in order to enable the Unit Agent to vote such Preferred
Securities, Debentures or Warrants and the Trust shall covenant to such effect
in the Declaration.

     Section 4.3. Distribution of Debentures.

     Upon the liquidation of the Trust in accordance with the Declaration, a
principal amount at maturity of Debentures constituting the assets of the Trust
and underlying the Preferred Securities equal to the aggregate stated
liquidation amount of the Preferred Securities shall be delivered to the Unit
Agent in exchange for, and for delivery against surrender of, the Preferred
Securities. Thereafter, the Debentures will be substituted for the Preferred
Securities as a component of the Units. Following the liquidation of the Trust,
the Holders shall have such rights and obligations with respect to the
Debentures as the Holders had in respect of the Preferred Securities. The
Company may cause to be made in any Certificates thereafter to be issued such
change in phraseology and form (but not in substance) as may be appropriate to
reflect the liquidation of the Trust and the substitution of Debentures for
Preferred Securities.

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                                   ARTICLE V

                   Remarketing and Redemption; Early Exercise

     Section 5.1. Remarketing and Redemption.

     Pursuant to a Remarketing Agreement to be entered into, the Company will
engage a Remarketing Agent to sell the Preferred Securities (or, if the
Debentures have been distributed upon liquidation of the Trust, the Debentures)
upon the occurrence of a Remarketing Event. In connection with a Remarketing of
the Preferred Securities:

          (i) upon a Optional Redemption Remarketing Event or a Special Event
     Remarketing Event, the Accreted Value of the Debentures as of the end of
     the day on the day next preceding the Remarketing Date shall become due on
     the date which is 180 days following the Remarketing Date, and, as a
     result, the Accreted Value of the Preferred Securities as of the end of the
     day on the day next preceding the Remarketing Date shall be redeemed on the
     date which is 180 days following the Remarketing Date;

          (ii) on the Remarketing Date, the rate of interest per annum on the
     Accreted Value of the Debentures shall become the Reset Rate established in
     the Remarketing of the Preferred Securities, and, as a result, the
     "Distribution Rate" per annum on the Accreted Value of the Preferred
     Securities shall become the Reset Rate established in the Remarketing;

          (iii) on the Remarketing Settlement Date, interest accrued and unpaid
     on the Debentures from and including the immediately preceding Interest
     Payment Date to, but excluding, the Remarketing Settlement Date shall be
     payable to the holders of the Debentures, and, as a result, Distributions
     accumulated and unpaid on the Units from and including the immediately
     preceding Distribution Date to, but excluding, the Remarketing Settlement
     Date shall be payable to the Holders of the Units;

          (iv) in connection with a Remarketing upon a Optional Redemption
     Remarketing Event or a Special Event Remarketing Event, the Company shall
     be obligated to redeem the Warrants on the Remarketing Settlement Date at a
     redemption price per Warrant equal to the Warrant Value as of the end of
     the day on the day next preceding the Remarketing Date; and

          (v) on and after the Remarketing Date, the Warrants shall be
     exercisable at the Exercise Price.

     Upon receipt from the Company of a written Notice of Remarketing as
provided in the Declaration and of a written notice of a Redemption as provided
in the Warrant Agreement, the Unit Agent shall, as soon as practicable
thereafter, mail to the Holders of Units a notice of such receipt, together with
a copy of each such notice.

     IN THE ABSENCE OF AN AFFIRMATIVE ELECTION NOT TO PARTICIPATE IN THE
     REMARKETING, EACH HOLDER WILL BE DEEMED TO HAVE ELECTED TO PARTICIPATE IN
     SUCH REMARKETING AND, IF APPLICABLE, TO HAVE ITS WARRANTS REDEEMED ON THE
     RELATED REMARKETING SETTLEMENT DATE AT THE WARRANT VALUE.

     Each Holder of a Security who desires NOT to participate in the Remarketing
shall notify the Unit Agent of such intention by use of a written notice in
substantially the form of Exhibit B hereto. Such

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notice shall be given to the Unit Agent prior to 5:00 p.m., New York City time,
on the Business Day immediately preceding the Remarketing Date specified in the
Notice of Remarketing. A Holder of Security must affirmatively elect NOT to
participate in a Remarketing on or prior to 5:00 p.m. New York City time on the
Business Day immediately preceding the Remarketing Date. Subject to the next
paragraph, an election by a Holder NOT to participate in the Remarketing will
not alter the deemed election by such Holder to have its Warrants redeemed on
the Remarketing Settlement Date. Any such notice shall be irrevocable and may
not be conditioned upon the level at which the Reset Rate is established in the
Remarketing. The Unit Agent, based on such notices received by it, shall notify
the Remarketing Agent, promptly after 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the
Business Day immediately preceding the Remarketing Date, of the aggregate number
of Preferred Securities (or, if the Debentures have been distributed in
connection with a liquidation of the Trust, the Debentures) that are a component
of Units to be remarketed. Upon receipt of such notice from the Unit Agent, the
Remarketing Agent shall, on the Remarketing Date, use commercially reasonable
efforts to remarket such Preferred Securities (or Debentures) on such date at a
price equal to: (i) in connection with a Remarketing upon a Optional Redemption
Remarketing Event or a Special Event Remarketing Event, 100% of the aggregate
Accreted Value of such Preferred Securities (or Debentures) as of the end of the
day on the day next preceding the Remarketing Date; and (ii) on the Maturity
Remarketing Date, 100% of the stated liquidation amount (or principal amount).

     Each Holder of a Security who desires to exercise its Warrants on the
Remarketing Settlement Date at the Exercise Price per Warrant described in
clause (v) above in this Section 5.1, instead of having such Warrants redeemed
on such date, shall notify the Unit Agent and the Warrant Agent of such
intention by use of a written notice in substantially the form of Exhibit C
hereto. Such notice shall be given to the Unit Agent and the Warrant Agent prior
to 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the Business Day immediately preceding the
Remarketing Settlement Date specified in the related Notice of Remarketing. As
provided above, any Holder who does not notify the Unit Agent and the Warrant
Agent of an election to exercise its Warrants on the Warrant Settlement Date
shall be deemed to have elected to have such Warrants redeemed. Upon receipt of
the foregoing notices the Unit Agent shall provide notice to the Warrant Agent,
promptly after 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the Business Day immediately
preceding the related Remarketing Settlement Date specified in the related
Notice of Remarketing, of the number of Warrants to be exercised and shall, no
later than 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the Remarketing Settlement Date,
deliver to the Warrant Agent a duly completed form of election to purchase set
forth on the reverse side of the Warrant Certificate, a form of which is
attached to the Global Unit, and shall instruct the Remarketing Agent to deliver
to the Warrant Agent the proceeds of the Remarketing referred to in the
following paragraph. Upon receipt of the Common Stock deliverable upon exercise
of the Warrants, the Warrant Agent shall deliver such shares to or upon the
order of the Holder.

     Each Holder who elects to participate in the Remarketing and to exercise
its Warrants on the related Remarketing Settlement Date is referred to as an
"Electing Remarketing Holder." The Unit Agent shall instruct the Remarketing
Agent to deliver the proceeds from the Remarketing of Preferred Securities of
each Electing Remarketing Holder to the Warrant Agent, and the Warrant Agent
shall apply such amounts to satisfy in full such Holders' obligation to pay the
Exercise Price for the Common Stock under the related Warrants on the
Remarketing Settlement Date. Any Holder (other than an Electing Remarketing
Holder) of a Security affirmatively electing to exercise Warrants on the
Remarketing Settlement Date may do so by following the procedures set forth in
Section 5.2 and in the Warrant Agreement. The proceeds from a redemption of the
Warrants which form a part of the Units shall be paid to the Holders of such
Units.

     The Declaration provides that if, by 4:00 p.m. New York City time, on a
Remarketing Date, the Remarketing Agent is unable to remarket all of the
Preferred Securities deemed tendered for purchase, a "Failed Remarketing" shall
be deemed to have occurred and the Remarketing Agent shall so advise by

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telephone the Clearing Agency, the Property Trustee, the Warrant Agent, the
Indenture Trustee, the Administrative Trustees on behalf of the Trust and the
Company. The Company shall then give notice of the Failed Remarketing to the
Unit Agent no later than 12:00 noon, New York City time, on the Business Day
following the Failed Remarketing and the Unit Agent will, in turn, give notice
to the Holders of the Preferred Securities prior to the close of business on the
Business Day following the Failed Remarketing. Notice of a Failed Remarketing
shall be deemed to constitute a withdrawal of each previously delivered election
to exercise Warrants on the related Remarketing Settlement Date. Following any
such withdrawal a holder may still elect to exercise its Warrants in accordance
with the procedures specified in Section 3.6 hereof and in the Warrant
Agreement.

     Upon the occurrence of a Optional Redemption Remarketing Event or a Special
Event Remarketing Event and the election by the Company to cause a Remarketing
of the Preferred Securities, and on the Maturity Remarketing Date, as long as
the Units are evidenced by one or more Global Units, deposited with the Clearing
Agency, the Company shall request, not less than four nor more than 20 days
prior to the Remarketing Date, that the Clearing Agency notify the Holders of
the Units of the Remarketing of the Preferred Securities and of the procedures
that must be followed if such Holder of Units wishes to elect not to participate
in the Remarketing of the Preferred Securities.

     Section 5.2. Early Exercise of Warrants; Exchange of Preferred Securities
and Repurchase of Debentures.

     A Holder of a Security may elect to exercise the Warrants which form a part
of such Security at any time in accordance with the terms of the Warrant
Agreement. Each Holder, other than an Electing Remarketing Holder, who desires
to exercise its Warrants shall, prior to any such exercise, separate the Warrant
and the Preferred Security components of the Security in accordance with Section
3.6. In no event may a Holder satisfy its obligation to pay the Exercise Price
by tendering Preferred Securities.

     Following the exercise of a Warrant on a day other than the Remarketing
Settlement Date, the Holder of the Security of which such Warrant formed a part
may require the Trust to exchange the Preferred Securities which formed the
other part of such Security for Debentures having an Accreted Value equal to the
Accreted Value of the Preferred Securities being exchanged and to require the
Company to repurchase such Debentures on the applicable Required Repurchase Date
which is no less than 180 days from such exercise date, as specified in the
Declaration.

     Section 5.3. Change of Control.

     Following a Change of Control, each Holder will have the right to (i)
require the Trust to distribute to such Holder, Debentures having an Accreted
Value equal to Accreted Value of the Preferred Securities components of such
Holder's Units in exchange for its Preferred Securities and (ii) cause the
Company to repurchase (a "Change of Control Repurchase Right") such Holder's
Debentures and redeem (a "Change of Control Redemption Right") such Holder's
Warrants at the amounts and on the dates specified in the Warrant Agreement, the
Declaration and the Indenture, as applicable.

     Upon receipt from the Company of written notice of a Change of Control (as
provided in the Declaration and the Warrant Agreement), the Unit Agent shall, as
soon as practicable thereafter, mail to the Holders of Units a notice of such
receipt, together with a copy of such notice of Change of Control. The date
specified in the notice from the Company will be the "Change of Control Notice
Date."

          (a) Warrants. To exercise the Change of Control Redemption Right, a
     Holder must deliver to the Unit Agent, prior to the 30th day following the
     Change of Control Notice Date, irrevocable written notice substantially in
     the form of Exhibit D hereto, of such Holder's election

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     to have Warrants redeemed on the date specified in the Warrant Agreement.
     The Unit Agent, based on such notices received by it, shall notify the
     Warrant Agent no later than the 30th day following the Change of Control
     Notice Date of the aggregate number of Warrants to be redeemed. An election
     to have Warrants redeemed shall also constitute an election to separate the
     related Units into their component parts and the Unit Agent, the Property
     Trustee and the Warrant Agent shall follow the procedures specified in
     Section 3.6.

          (b) Preferred Securities. To exercise the Change of Control Repurchase
     Right, a Holder who has not separated its Units pursuant to clause (a)
     above must deliver to the Unit Agent, no earlier than the 180th and no
     later than the 210th day following the Change of Control Notice Date,
     irrevocable written notice substantially in the form of Exhibit E hereto,
     of such Holder's election to have Preferred Securities components of its
     Units exchanged for an equivalent Accreted Value of Debentures and to have
     such Debentures repurchased on the date specified in the Indenture. The
     Unit Agent, based on such notices received by it, shall notify the Trust,
     the Company, the Property Trustee and the Exchange Agent, no later than the
     211th day following the Change of Control Notice Date of the aggregate
     number of Preferred Securities to be exchanged for Debentures by the Trust
     and to be repurchased by the Company. An election to exchange Preferred
     Securities for Debentures and to have such Debentures repurchased by the
     Company shall also constitute an election to separate the related Units
     into their component parts and the Unit Agent, the Exchange Agent and the
     Property Trustee shall follow the procedures specified in Section 3.6
     hereof (and Section 6.8 of the Declaration).

     Section 5.4. Certain Rights Following a Remarketing.

     Following a Remarketing Settlement Date and a Redemption or exercise of the
Warrants (including the delivery of all shares of Common Stock pursuant to the
exercise of a Warrant or the payment of the Warrant Value payable upon the
related Redemption and the payment of any amounts payable upon the related
Remarketing), a Unit shall thereafter represent the right to receive any excess
proceeds from the Remarketing, if any; provided, however, that in the case of a
"Failed Remarketing" under the Declaration, a Unit shall thereafter represent
the right to receive the Preferred Securities forming a part of such Unit,
containing the terms as provided in the Declaration (or if the Debentures have
been distributed upon liquidation of the Trust, the Debentures).

                                   ARTICLE VI

                                    Remedies

     Section 6.1. Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Payments and to
Purchase Common Stock.

     The Holder of any Security shall have all the rights provided to a holder
of Preferred Securities under the Declaration and to a holder of Warrants under
the Warrant Agreement, including the right to institute suit for the enforcement
of any such payments or obligations thereunder, and such rights shall not be
impaired except as provided in the Declaration and the Warrant Agreement.

     Section 6.2. Restoration of Rights and Remedies.

     If any Holder has instituted any proceeding to enforce any right or remedy
under this Unit Agreement and such proceeding has been discontinued or abandoned
for any reason, or has been determined adversely to such Holder, then and in
every such case, subject to any determination in such proceeding, the Company
and such Holder shall be restored severally and respectively to their former

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positions hereunder and thereafter all rights and remedies of such Holder shall
continue as though no such proceeding had been instituted.

     Section 6.3. Rights and Remedies Cumulative.

     Except as otherwise provided with respect to the replacement or payment of
mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Certificates in the last paragraph of
Section 3.11, no right or remedy herein conferred upon or reserved to the
Holders is intended to be exclusive of any other right or remedy, and every
right and remedy shall, to the extent permitted by law, be cumulative and in
addition to every other right and remedy given hereunder or now or hereafter
existing at law or in equity or otherwise. The assertion or employment of any
right or remedy hereunder, or otherwise, shall not prevent the concurrent
assertion or employment of any other appropriate right or remedy.

     Section 6.4. Delay or Omission Not Waiver.

     No delay or omission of any Holder to exercise any right or remedy upon
a default shall impair any such right or remedy or constitute a waiver of any
such right. Every right and remedy given by this Article or by law to the
Holders may be exercised from time to time, and as often as may be deemed
expedient, by such Holders.

     Section 6.5. Undertaking for Costs.

     All parties to this Unit Agreement agree, and each Holder of a Security, by
its acceptance of such Security shall be deemed to have agreed, that any court
may in its discretion require, in any suit for the enforcement of any right or
remedy under this Unit Agreement, or in any suit against the Unit Agent for any
action taken, suffered or omitted by it as Unit Agent, the filing by any party
litigant in such suit of an undertaking to pay the costs of such suit, and that
such court may in its discretion assess reasonable costs, including reasonable
attorneys' fees, against any party litigant in such suit, having due regard to
the merits and good faith of the claims or defenses made by such party litigant;
provided that the provisions of this Section shall not apply to any suit
instituted by the Company, to any suit instituted by the Unit Agent, to any suit
instituted by any Holder, or group of Holders, holding in the aggregate more
than 10% of the Outstanding Units, or to any suit instituted by any Holder for
the enforcement of distributions on any Preferred Securities on or after the
respective Payment Date therefor in respect of any Security held by such Holder,
or for enforcement of the right to purchase shares of Common Stock under the
Warrants constituting part of any Security held by such Holder.

     Section 6.6. Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws.

     The Company covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) that it
will not at any time insist upon, or plead, or in any manner whatsoever claim or
take the benefit or advantage of, any stay or extension law wherever enacted,
now or at any time hereafter in force, which may affect the covenants or the
performance of this Unit Agreement; and the Company (to the extent that it may
lawfully do so) hereby expressly waives all benefit or advantage of any such law
and covenants that it will not hinder, delay or impede the execution of any
power herein granted to the Unit Agent or the Holders, but will suffer and
permit the execution of every such power as though no such law had been enacted.

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                                  ARTICLE VII

                                 The Unit Agent

     Section 7.1. Certain Duties and Responsibilities.

     (a) The Unit Agent undertakes to perform, with respect to the Units, such
duties and only such duties as are specifically required to be performed by the
Unit Agent under this Unit Agreement, and no implied covenants or obligations
shall be read into this Unit Agreement against the Unit Agent; and

               (1) in the absence of bad faith on its part, the Unit Agent may
          conclusively rely and be fully protected in so relying, as to the
          truth of the statements and the correctness of the opinions expressed
          therein, upon certificates or opinions furnished to the Unit Agent and
          conforming to the requirements of this Unit Agreement but in the case
          of any certificates or opinions which by any provision hereof are
          specifically required to be furnished to the Unit Agent, the Unit
          Agent shall be under a duty to examine the same to determine whether
          or not they conform to the requirements of this Unit Agreement (but
          need not confirm or investigate the accuracy of mathematical
          calculations or other facts stated therein).

     (b) No provision of this Unit Agreement shall be construed to relieve the
Unit Agent from liability for its own grossly negligent action, its own grossly
negligent failure to act, or its own willful misconduct, except that

               (1) this Subsection shall not be construed to limit the effect of
          Subsection (a) of this Section;

               (2) the Unit Agent shall not be liable for any error of judgment
          made in good faith by a Responsible Officer;

               (3) no provision of this Unit Agreement shall require the Unit
          Agent to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur any personal
          financial liability in the performance of any of its duties hereunder,
          or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers, if adequate
          indemnity is not provided to it; and

               (4) no provision of this Unit Agreement shall require the Unit
          Agent to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur any personal
          financial liability in the performance of any of its duties hereunder,
          or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers, if it shall have
          reasonable grounds for believing that repayment of such funds or
          adequate indemnity against such risk or liability is not reasonably
          assured to it.

     (c) Whether or not therein expressly so provided, every provision of this
Unit Agreement relating to the conduct or affecting the liability of or
affording protection to the Unit Agent shall be subject to the provisions of
this Section.

     Section 7.2. Notice of Default.

     Within 30 days after the occurrence of any default by the Company hereunder
of which a Responsible Officer of the Unit Agent has actual knowledge, the Unit
Agent shall transmit by mail to the Company and the Holders of Units, as their
names and addresses appear in the Register, notice of such default hereunder,
unless such default shall have been cured or waived.

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     Section 7.3. Certain Rights of Unit Agent.

     Subject to the provisions of Section 7.1:

          (a) the Unit Agent may rely and shall be fully protected in acting or
     refraining from acting upon any resolution, certificate, statement,
     instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order,
     bond, debenture, note, other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or
     document believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or presented
     by an appropriate person;

          (b) any request or direction of the Company mentioned herein shall be
     sufficiently evidenced by an Officers' Certificate, Issuer Order or Issuer
     Request, and any resolution of the Board of Directors of the Company may be
     sufficiently evidenced by a Board Resolution;

          (c) whenever in the administration of this Unit Agreement the Unit
     Agent shall deem it desirable that a matter be proved or established prior
     to taking, suffering or omitting any action hereunder, the Unit Agent
     (unless other evidence be herein specifically prescribed) may, in the
     absence of bad faith on its part, require and rely upon an Officers'
     Certificate of the Company;

          (d) the Unit Agent may consult with counsel of its selection and the
     advice of such counsel or any Opinion of Counsel shall be full and complete
     authorization and protection in respect of any action taken, suffered or
     omitted by it hereunder in good faith and in reliance thereon;

          (e) the Unit Agent shall not be bound to make any investigation into
     the facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement,
     instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order,
     bond, debenture, note, other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or
     document, but the Unit Agent, in its sole discretion, may make reasonable
     further inquiry or investigation into such facts or matters as it may see
     fit, and, if the Unit Agent shall determine to make such further inquiry or
     investigation, it shall be given a reasonable opportunity to examine the
     books, records and premises of the Company, personally or by agent or
     attorney at the sole cost of the Company, and shall incur no personal
     liability or additional liability of any kind by reason of such inquiry or
     investigation;

          (f) the Unit Agent may execute any of the powers hereunder or perform
     any duties hereunder either directly or by or through agents or attorneys
     or an Affiliate and the Unit Agent shall not be personally responsible for
     any misconduct or negligence on the part of any agent or attorney or an
     Affiliate appointed with due care by it hereunder;

          (g) with respect to the calculation of the Accreted Value and the
     Warrant Value, the Unit Agent may conclusively rely upon the calculations
     thereof determined by the Calculation Agent;

          (h) the Unit Agent shall not be personally liable for any action
     taken, suffered, or omitted to be taken by it in good faith and reasonably
     believed by it to be authorized or within the discretion or rights or
     powers conferred upon it by this Unit Agreement;

          (i) the Unit Agent shall not be deemed to or have notice of any
     Default or Event of Default unless a Responsible Officer of the Unit Agent
     has actual knowledge thereof or has received a written notice that
     references the Units and this Unit Agreement;

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          (j) in the event that the Unit Agent is unable to decide between
     alternative courses of action permitted or required under this Agreement or
     any other document, or is unsure as to the application of any provision of
     this Agreement or any other document, or any such provision may be
     ambiguous as to its application or in conflict with any other applicable
     provision, permits any determination by the Unit Agent, or is silent or
     incomplete as to the course of action that the Unit Agent is required to
     take with respect to a particular set of facts, the Unit Agent may give
     notice (in such form as shall be appropriate under the circumstances) to
     the Company and/or to the Holders requesting instruction from any of them,
     and to the extent that the Unit Agent acts or refrains from acting in good
     faith in accordance with any such instruction received, the Unit Agent
     shall not be personally liable, on account of such action or inaction, to
     any Person, and if the Unit Agent shall not have received appropriate
     instruction within 10 days of such notice (or within such shorter period of
     time as reasonably may be specified in such notice or may be necessary
     under the circumstances) it may, but shall be under no duty to, take or
     refrain from taking action, and shall have no personal liability to any
     Person for such action or inaction; and

          (k) the rights, privileges, protections, immunities and benefits given
     to the Unit Agent, including, without limitation, its right to be
     indemnified, are extended to, and shall be enforceable by, the Unit Agent
     in each of its capacities hereunder, the Warrant Agent, the Property
     Trustee, the Guarantee Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, and to each agent,
     custodian and other Person employed to act hereunder.

     Section 7.4. Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Units.

     The recitals contained herein and in the Certificates shall be taken as the
statements of the Company, and the Unit Agent assumes no responsibility for
their accuracy. The Unit Agent makes no representations as to the validity or
sufficiency of either this Unit Agreement or of the Units.

     The Unit Agent shall not be accountable for the use or application by the
Company of Units or the proceeds thereof.

     Section 7.5. May Hold Units.

     Any Registrar or any other agent of the Company, or the Unit Agent and its
Affiliates, in their individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or
pledgee of Units and may otherwise deal with the Company or any other Person
with the same rights it would have if it were not Registrar or such other agent,
or the Unit Agent.

     Section 7.6. Money Held in Custody.

     Money held by the Unit Agent in custody hereunder need not be segregated
from the other funds except to the extent required by law or provided herein.
The Unit Agent shall be under no obligation to invest or pay interest on any
money received by it hereunder except as otherwise agreed in writing with the
Company.

     Section 7.7. Compensation and Reimbursement.

     The Company agrees:

               (1) to pay to the Unit Agent in its individual capacity from time
          to time such compensation as shall from time to time be agreed to in
          writing by the Company and the Unit Agent for all services rendered by
          it hereunder;

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               (2) except as otherwise expressly provided for herein, to
          reimburse the Unit Agent in its individual capacity upon its request
          for all reasonable expenses, disbursements and advances incurred or
          made by the Unit Agent (including the reasonable compensation and the
          expenses and disbursements of its agents and counsel), except any such
          expense, disbursement or advance as may be attributable to its gross
          negligence or bad faith; and

               (3) to indemnify the Unit Agent in its individual capacity and
          any predecessor Unit Agent for, and to defend and hold it harmless
          against, any loss, liability, claim, or expense (including reasonable
          fees of counsel), including taxes (other than taxes based upon,
          measured by or determined by the income of the Unit Agent) incurred
          without gross negligence or bad faith on its part, arising out of or
          in connection with this Agreement, the Securities, or the acceptance
          or administration of its duties hereunder, including the costs and
          expenses (including reasonable fees of counsel) of defending itself
          against any claim or liability in connection with the exercise or
          performance of any of its powers or duties hereunder.

     The Unit Agent shall have a lien prior to the Units as to all property and
funds held by it hereunder for any amount owing it or any predecessor Unit Agent
pursuant to this Section 7.7, except with respect to funds held in trust for the
benefit of the Holders of particular Units.

     The provisions of this Section shall survive the termination of this
Unit Agreement and the resignation or removal of the Unit Agent.

     Section 7.8. Corporate Agent Required; Eligibility.

     There shall at all times be an Agent hereunder which shall be an entity
organized and doing business under the laws of the United States of America, any
State thereof or the District of Columbia, authorized under such laws to
exercise corporate trust powers, having (or being a member of a bank holding
company having) a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000, subject
to supervision or examination by Federal or State authority and having a
Corporate Trust Office in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, if
there be such an entity in Wilmington, Delaware or the Borough of Manhattan, The
City of New York, qualified and eligible under this Article and willing to act
on reasonable terms. If such entity publishes reports of condition at least
annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of said supervising or
examining authority, then for the purposes of this Section, the combined capital
and surplus of such entity shall be deemed to be its combined capital and
surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition so published. If at
any time the Unit Agent shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the
provisions of this Section, it shall resign immediately in the manner and with
the effect hereinafter specified in this Article.

     Section 7.9. Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor.

     (a) No resignation or removal of the Unit Agent and no appointment of a
successor Unit Agent pursuant to this Article shall become effective until the
acceptance of appointment by the successor Unit Agent in accordance with the
applicable requirements of Section 7.10.

     (b) The Unit Agent may resign at any time by giving written notice thereof
to the Company 60 days prior to the effective date of such resignation. If the
instrument of acceptance by a successor Unit Agent required by Section 7.10
shall not have been delivered to the Unit Agent within 30 days after the giving
of such notice of resignation, the resigning Unit Agent (at the expense of the
Company) may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of
a successor Unit Agent.

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     (c) The Unit Agent may be removed at any time by Act of the Holders of a
majority in number of the Outstanding Units delivered to the Unit Agent and the
Company.

     (d) If at any time

               (1) the Unit Agent fails to comply with Section 310(b) of the
          TIA, as if the Unit Agent were an indenture trustee under an indenture
          qualified under the TIA, after written request therefor by the Company
          or by any Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security for at
          least six months, or

               (2) the Unit Agent shall cease to be eligible under Section 7.8
          and shall fail to resign after written request therefor by the Company
          or by any such Holder, or

               (3) the Unit Agent shall become incapable of acting or shall be
          adjudged a bankrupt or insolvent or a receiver of the Unit Agent or of
          its property shall be appointed or any public officer shall take
          charge or control of the Unit Agent or of its property or affairs for
          the purpose of rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation,

then, in any such case, (i) the Company by a Board Resolution may remove the
Unit Agent, or (ii) any Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security for
at least six months may, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated,
petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the removal of the Unit Agent
and the appointment of a successor Unit Agent.

     (e) If the Unit Agent shall resign, be removed or become incapable of
acting, or if a vacancy shall occur in the office of Unit Agent for any cause,
the Company, by a Board Resolution, shall promptly appoint a successor Unit
Agent and shall comply with the applicable requirements of Section 7.10. If no
successor Unit Agent shall have been so appointed by the Company and accepted
appointment in the manner required by Section 7.10, any Holder who has been a
bona fide Holder of a Security for at least six months may, on behalf of itself
and all others similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction
for the appointment of a successor Unit Agent.

     (f) the Company shall give, or shall cause such successor Unit Agent to
give, notice of each resignation and each removal of the Unit Agent and each
appointment of a successor Unit Agent by mailing written notice of such event by
first-class mail, postage prepaid, to all Holders as their names and addresses
appear in the applicable Register. Each notice shall include the name of the
successor Unit Agent and the address of its Corporate Trust Office.

     Section 7.10. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor.

     (a) In case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Unit Agent, every
such successor Unit Agent so appointed shall execute, acknowledge and deliver to
the Company and to the retiring Unit Agent an instrument accepting such
appointment, and thereupon the resignation or removal of the retiring Unit Agent
shall become effective and such successor Unit Agent, without any further act,
deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights, powers, agencies
and duties of the retiring Unit Agent; but, on the written request of the
Company or the successor Unit Agent, such retiring Unit Agent shall, upon
payment of its charges, execute and deliver an instrument transferring to such
successor Unit Agent all the rights, powers and trusts of the retiring Unit
Agent and shall duly assign, transfer and deliver to such successor Unit Agent
all property and money held by such retiring Unit Agent hereunder. If an
instrument of acceptance by a successor Unit Agent shall not have been delivered
to the Unit Agent within 30 days after the giving of notice of removal, the Unit
Agent being removed may petition, at the

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expense of the Company, any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment
of a successor Unit Agent.

     (b) Upon request of any such successor Unit Agent, the Company shall
execute any and all instruments for more fully and certainly vesting in and
confirming to such successor Unit Agent all such rights, powers and agencies
referred to in paragraph (a) of this Section.

     (c) No successor Unit Agent shall accept its appointment unless at the time
of such acceptance such successor Unit Agent shall be qualified and eligible
under this Article.

     Section 7.11. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business.

     Any Person into which the Unit Agent may be merged or converted or
consolidated, or any Person resulting from any merger, conversion or
consolidation to which the Unit Agent shall be a party, or any Person succeeding
to all or substantially all the corporate trust business of the Unit Agent,
shall be the successor of the Unit Agent hereunder, provided such Person shall
be otherwise qualified and eligible under this Article, without the execution or
filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any of the parties hereto.
In case any Certificates shall have been authenticated, but not delivered, by
the Unit Agent then in office, any successor by merger, conversion or
consolidation or otherwise to such Unit Agent may adopt such authentication and
deliver the Certificates so authenticated with the same effect as if such
successor Unit Agent had itself authenticated such Units.

     Section 7.12. Preservation of Information; Communications to Holders.

     (a) The Unit Agent shall preserve, in as current a form as is reasonably
practicable, the names and addresses of Holders received by the Unit Agent in
its capacity as Registrar.

     (b) If three or more Holders (herein referred to as "applicants") apply in
writing to the Unit Agent, and furnish to the Unit Agent reasonable proof that
each such applicant has owned a Security for a period of at least six months
preceding the date of such application, and such application states that the
applicants desire to communicate with other Holders with respect to their rights
under this Unit Agreement or under the Units and is accompanied by a copy of the
form of proxy or other communication which such applicants propose to transmit,
then the Unit Agent shall mail to all the Holders copies of the form of proxy or
other communication which is specified in such request, with reasonable
promptness after a tender to the Unit Agent of the materials to be mailed and of
payment, or provision for the payment, of the reasonable expenses of such
mailing.

     Section 7.13. No Obligations of Unit Agent.

     The Unit Agent assumes no obligations and shall not be subject to any
personal liability under this Unit Agreement in respect of the obligations of
the Holder of any Security hereunder. The Company agrees, and each Holder of a
Certificate, by his acceptance thereof, shall be deemed to have agreed that the
Unit Agent shall have no personal liability in respect of its authentication of
Certificates. Anything in this Unit Agreement to the contrary notwithstanding,
in no event shall the Unit Agent or its officers, employees or agents be liable
under this Unit Agreement to any third party for indirect, special, punitive, or
consequential loss or damage of any kind whatsoever, including lost profits,
whether or not the likelihood of such loss or damage was known to the Unit
Agent, incurred without any act or deed that is found to be attributable to
gross negligence or willful misconduct on the part of the Unit Agent.

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     Section 7.14. Tax Compliance.

     (a) The Company will comply with all applicable certification, information
reporting and withholding (including "backup" withholding) requirements imposed
by applicable tax laws, regulations or administrative practice with respect to
(i) any payments made with respect to the Units or (ii) the issuance, delivery,
holding, transfer, redemption or exercise of rights under the Units. Such
compliance shall include, without limitation, the preparation and timely filing
of required returns and the timely payment of all amounts required to be
withheld to the appropriate taxing authority or its designated agent.

     (b) The Unit Agent shall comply in accordance with the terms hereof with
any written direction received from the Company with respect to the execution or
certification of any required documentation and the application of such
requirements described in Section 7.14(a) to particular payments or Holders or
in other particular circumstances, and may for purposes of this Unit Agreement
conclusively rely on any such direction in accordance with the provisions of
Section 7.3(a) hereof.

     (c) The Unit Agent upon specific written direction from the Company shall
maintain records documenting compliance with such requirements described in
Section 7.14(a), and shall make such records available, on written request, to
the Company or its authorized representative within a reasonable period of time
after receipt of such request.

                                  ARTICLE VIII

                             Supplemental Agreements

     Section 8.1. Supplemental Agreements Without Consent of Holders.

     Without the consent of any Holders or any other party hereto, the Company
and the Unit Agent, at any time and from time to time, may enter into one or
more agreements supplemental hereto, in form satisfactory to the Company and the
Unit Agent, for any of the following purposes:

               (1) to evidence the succession of another Person to the Company,
          and the assumption by any such successor of the covenants of the
          Company herein and in the Certificates; or

               (2) to add to the covenants of the Company for the benefit of the
          Holders, or to surrender any right or power herein conferred upon the
          Company; or

               (3) to evidence and provide for the acceptance of appointment
          hereunder by a successor Unit Agent; or

               (4) to cure any ambiguity, to cure, correct or supplement any
          provisions herein which may be inconsistent with any other provisions
          herein, or to make any other provisions with respect to such matters
          or questions arising under this Unit Agreement that the Company and
          the Unit Agent may deem necessary or desirable, provided such action
          shall not adversely affect the interests of the Holders.

     Section 8.2. Supplemental Agreements With Consent of Holders; Other
Fiduciaries.

     With the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in number of
the Outstanding Units voting together as one class, by Act of said Holders
delivered to the Company and the Unit Agent, the Company, when authorized by a
Board Resolution, the Trust and the Unit Agent may enter into an

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agreement or agreements supplemental hereto for the purpose of modifying in any
manner the provisions of this Unit Agreement or the rights of the Holders in
respect of the Units; provided, however, that, except as contemplated herein,
no such supplemental agreement shall, without the unanimous consent of the
Holders of each Outstanding Security affected thereby,

               (1) materially and adversely affect such Holder's rights under a
          Security; or

               (2) reduce the percentage of the Outstanding Units the consent of
          whose Holders is required for any such supplemental agreement;

provided, that any modification of the Declaration or Warrant Agreement in
accordance with the terms thereof shall be binding on the rights of the Holders
under this Unit Agreement without the need for any further consent.

     It shall not be necessary for any Act of Holders under this Section to
approve the particular form of any proposed supplemental agreement, but it shall
be sufficient if such Act shall approve the substance thereof.

     No agreement supplemental hereto shall modify in any way any of the rights
or obligations of the Unit Agent, the Property Trustee, the Indenture Trustee,
the Warrant Agent or the Remarketing Agent without such Person's consent.

     The Company may, but shall not be obligated to, fix a record date for the
purpose of determining the Persons entitled to consent to any indenture
supplemental hereto. If a record date is fixed, the Holders on such record date,
or their duly designated proxies, and only such Persons, shall be entitled to
consent to such supplemental indenture, whether or not such Holders remain
Holders after such record date; provided, that unless such consent shall have
become effective by virtue of the requisite percentage having been obtained
prior to the date which is 90 days after such record date, any such consent
previously given shall automatically and without further action by any Holder be
canceled and of no further effect.

     Section 8.3. Execution of Supplemental Agreements.

     In executing, or accepting the additional agencies created by, any
supplemental agreement permitted by this Article or the modifications thereby of
the agencies created by this Unit Agreement, the Unit Agent shall be entitled to
receive, and (subject to Section 7.1) shall be fully protected in relying upon,
an Opinion of Counsel stating that the execution of such supplemental agreement
is authorized or permitted by this Unit Agreement. The Agent may, but shall not
be obligated to, enter into any such supplemental agreement which affects the
Unit Agent's own rights, duties or immunities under this Unit Agreement or
otherwise.

     Section 8.4. Effect of Supplemental Agreements.

     Upon the execution of any supplemental agreement under this Article, this
Unit Agreement shall be modified in accordance therewith, and such supplemental
agreement shall form a part of this Unit Agreement for all purposes; and every
Holder of Certificates theretofore or thereafter authenticated, executed on
behalf of the Holders and delivered hereunder, shall be bound thereby.

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     Section 8.5. Reference to Supplemental Agreements.

     Certificates authenticated and delivered after the execution of any
supplemental agreement pursuant to this Article may, and shall if required by
the Unit Agent, bear a notation in form approved by the Unit Agent as to any
matter provided for in such supplemental agreement. If the Company shall so
determine, new Certificates so modified as to conform, in the opinion of the
Unit Agent and the Company, to any such supplemental agreement may be prepared
and executed by the Company and, upon Issuer Order and subject to Section 1.2,
authenticated and delivered by the Unit Agent in exchange for Certificates
representing Outstanding Units.

                                   ARTICLE IX

                    Consolidation, Merger, Sale or Conveyance

     Section 9.1. Covenant Not to Merge, Consolidate, Sell or Convey Property
Except Under Certain Conditions.

     The Company covenants that it will not merge or consolidate with any other
Person or sell, assign, transfer, lease or convey all or substantially all of
its properties and assets to any Person or group of affiliated Persons in one
transaction or a series of related transactions, unless (i) either the Company
shall be the continuing corporation, or the successor (if other than the
Company) shall be a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the
United States of America or a State thereof or the District of Columbia and such
corporation shall expressly assume all the obligations of the Company under this
Unit Agreement by one or more supplemental agreements in form reasonably
satisfactory to the Unit Agent, executed and delivered to the Unit Agent by such
corporation, and (ii) the Company or such successor corporation, as the case may
be, shall not, immediately after such merger or consolidation, or such sale,
assignment, transfer, lease or conveyance, be in default in the performance of
any covenant or condition hereunder or under any of the Units (including the
component parts thereof).

     Section 9.2. Rights and Duties of Successor Corporation.

     In case of any such consolidation, merger, sale, assignment, transfer,
lease or conveyance and upon any such assumption by a successor corporation in
accordance with Section 9.1, such successor corporation shall succeed to and be
substituted for the Company with the same effect as if it had been named herein
as the Company. Such successor corporation thereupon may cause to be signed, and
may issue either in its own name or in the name of the Company, any or all of
the Certificates evidencing Units issuable hereunder which theretofore shall not
have been signed by the Company and delivered to the Unit Agent; and, upon the
Issuer Order of such successor corporation, instead of the Company, and subject
to all the terms, conditions and limitations in this Unit Agreement prescribed,
the Unit Agent shall authenticate and deliver any Certificates which previously
shall have been signed and delivered by the officers of the Company to the Unit
Agent for authentication, and any Certificate evidencing Units which such
successor corporation thereafter shall cause to be signed and delivered to the
Unit Agent for that purpose. All the Certificates issued shall in all respects
have the same legal rank and benefit under this Unit Agreement as the
Certificates theretofore or thereafter issued in accordance with the terms of
this Unit Agreement as though all of such Certificates had been issued at the
date of the execution hereof.

     In case of any such consolidation, merger, sale, assignment, transfer,
lease or conveyance such change in phraseology and form (but not in substance)
may be made in the Certificates evidencing Units thereafter to be issued as may
be appropriate.

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     Section 9.3. Opinion of Counsel Given to Agent.

     The Agent, subject to Sections 7.1 and 7.3, shall be entitled to receive an
Opinion of Counsel as conclusive evidence that any such consolidation, merger,
sale, assignment, transfer, lease or conveyance, and any such assumption,
complies with the provisions of this Article and that all conditions precedent
to the consummation of any such consolidation, merger, sale, assignment,
transfer, lease or conveyance and assumption have been met.

                                   ARTICLE X

                                    Covenants

     Section 10.1. Performance Under Agreements.

     The Company covenants and agrees for the benefit of the Holders from time
to time of the Units that it will duly and punctually perform its obligations
under the Warrant Agreement and the Declaration, as applicable, in accordance
with the terms thereof and this Unit Agreement.

     Section 10.2. Maintenance of Office or Agency.

     The Company will maintain in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York
an office or agency where Certificates may be presented or surrendered for
registration of transfer or exchange, separation or re-establishment of a
Security and where notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of the
Units and this Unit Agreement may be served. The Company will give prompt
written notice to the Unit Agent of the location, and any change in the
location, of such office or agency. If at any time the Company shall fail to
maintain any such required office or agency or shall fail to furnish the Unit
Agent with the address thereof, such presentations, surrenders, notices and
demands may be made or served at the Corporate Trust Office, and the Company
hereby appoints the Unit Agent as its agent to receive all such presentations,
surrenders, notices and demands.

     The Company may also from time to time designate one or more other offices
or agencies where Certificates may be presented or surrendered for any or all
such purposes and may from time to time rescind such designations; provided,
however, that no such designation or rescission shall in any manner relieve the
Company of its obligation to maintain an office or agency in the Borough of
Manhattan, The City of New York for such purposes. The Company will give prompt
written notice to the Unit Agent of any such designation or rescission and of
any change in the location of any such other office or agency. The Company
hereby designates as the place of payment for the Units the Corporate Trust
Office and appoints the Unit Agent at its Corporate Trust Office as paying agent
in such city.

     Section 10.3. Statements of Officers of the Company as to Compliance.

     The Company will deliver to the Unit Agent, within 120 days after the end
of each fiscal year of the Company (which as of the date hereof is December 31)
ending after the date hereof, an Officers' Certificate (one of the signers of
which shall be the principal executive officer, principal financial officer or
principal accounting officer of the Company), stating whether or not to the best
knowledge of the signers thereof the Company is in default in the performance
and observance of any of the terms, provisions and conditions hereof, and if the
Company shall be in default, specifying all such defaults and the nature and
status thereof of which they may have knowledge.

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     Section 10.4. ERISA.

     Each Holder from time to time of a Security which is a Plan hereby and by
its acceptance of such Security represents that its acquisition of the Security
and the holding of the same satisfies the applicable fiduciary requirements of
ERISA and that it is entitled to exemption relief from the prohibited
transaction provisions of ERISA and the Code in accordance with one or more
prohibited transaction exemptions or otherwise will not result in a nonexempt
prohibited transaction.

     Section 10.5. Statement by Officers as to Default.

     The Company shall deliver to the Unit Agent, as soon as possible and in any
event within five days after the Company becomes aware of the occurrence of any
Event of Default or an event which, with notice or the lapse of time or both,
would constitute an Event of Default, an Officers' Certificate setting forth the
details of such Event of Default or default and the action which the Company
proposes to take with respect thereto.

     Section 10.6. Calculation of Original Issue Discount.

     The Company shall provide to the Unit Agent on a timely basis such
information as the Unit Agent requires to enable the Unit Agent to prepare and
file any form required to be submitted by the Company with the Internal Revenue
Service and Holders of Units relating to original discount, including, without
limitation, Form 1099-OID or any successor form.

                                   ARTICLE XI

                        Representations of the Unit Agent

     Section 11.1. Representations and Warranties of the Unit Agent.

     The initial Agent represents and warrants to the Trust and to the Company
at the date of this Unit Agreement, and each successor Unit Agent represents and
warrants to the Trust and the Company at the time of the successor Unit Agent's
acceptance of its appointment as Agent, that:

          (a) the Unit Agent is a banking corporation duly organized, validly
     existing and in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its
     organization, with trust powers and authority to execute and deliver, and
     to carry out and perform its obligations under the terms of, this Unit
     Agreement;

          (b) the Unit Agent satisfies the requirements set forth in Section
     7.8;

          (c) the execution, delivery and performance by the Unit Agent of this
     Unit Agreement has been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action
     on the part of the Unit Agent; this Unit Agreement has been duly executed
     and delivered by the Unit Agent and constitutes a legal, valid and binding
     obligation of the Unit Agent enforceable against it in accordance with its
     terms, subject to applicable bankruptcy, reorganization, moratorium,
     insolvency and other similar laws affecting creditors' rights generally and
     to general principles of equity and the discretion of the court (regardless
     of whether the enforcement of such remedies is considered in a proceeding
     in equity or at law);

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          (d) the execution, delivery and performance of this Unit Agreement by
     the Unit Agent does not conflict with, or constitute a breach of, the
     charter or by-laws of the Unit Agent; and

          (e) no consent, approval or authorization of, or registration with or
     notice to, any State of Delaware or federal banking authority that has not
     been obtained, made, or given is required for the execution, delivery or
     performance by the Unit Agent of this Unit Agreement.

                                  ARTICLE XII

                   The Warrant Agent and The Property Trustee

     Section 12.1. Certain Duties and Responsibilities.

     The Warrant Agent and the Property Trustee (each, a "Party",
together, the "Parties") each undertakes to perform, with respect to this Unit
Agreement, such duties and only such duties as are specifically required to be
performed by it in this Unit Agreement, and no implied covenants or obligations
shall be read into this Unit Agreement against any Party. The provisions
regarding the appointment, removal, resignation, vacancies, meetings, delegation
of power and merger, conversion, consolidation or succession to business
applicable to such Party and rights, benefits, privileges, and immunities of
such Party under the Declaration or Warrant Agreement, as to which such Person
is a party, shall apply to the performance of such Person's duties and
obligations hereunder.

     Without limiting the foregoing,

          (a) In the absence of bad faith or negligence on its part, any Party
     may conclusively rely, as to the truth of the statements and the
     correctness of the opinions expressed therein, upon certificates or
     opinions furnished to such Party and conforming to the requirements of this
     Unit Agreement but in the case of any certificates or opinions which by any
     provision hereof are specifically required to be furnished to a Party, such
     Party shall be under a duty to examine the same to determine whether or not
     they conform to the requirements of this Unit Agreement.

          (b) No provision of this Unit Agreement shall be construed to relieve
     any Party from liability for its own negligent action, its own negligent
     failure to act, or its own willful misconduct, except that

               (1) this Subsection shall not be construed to limit the effect of
          Subsection (a) of this Section;

               (2) no Party shall be liable for any error of judgment made in
          good faith it, unless it shall be proved that such Party was negligent
          in ascertaining the pertinent facts; and

               (3) no provision of this Unit Agreement shall require any Party
          to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur any financial
          liability in the performance of any of its duties hereunder, or in the
          exercise of any of its rights or powers, if adequate indemnity is not
          provided to it.

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          (c) Whether or not therein expressly so provided, every provision of
     this Unit Agreement relating to the conduct or affecting the liability of
     or affording protection to the Parties shall be subject to the provisions
     of this Section;

          (d) Any Party may rely and shall be fully protected in acting or
     refraining from acting upon any resolution, certificate, statement,
     instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order,
     bond, debenture, note, other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or
     document believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or presented
     by an appropriate Person;

          (e) Any request or direction of the Company mentioned herein shall be
     sufficiently evidenced by an Officers' Certificate, Issuer Order or Issuer
     Request, and any resolution of the Board of Directors of the Company may be
     sufficiently evidenced by a Board Resolution;

          (f) Whenever in the administration of this Unit Agreement any Party
     shall deem it desirable that a matter be proved or established prior to
     taking, suffering or omitting any action hereunder, such Party (unless
     other evidence be herein specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of
     bad faith on its part, require and rely upon an Officers' Certificate of
     the Company;

          (g) Any Party may consult with counsel of its selection and the advice
     of such counsel or any Opinion of Counsel shall be full and complete
     authorization and protection in respect of any action taken, suffered or
     omitted by it hereunder in good faith and in reliance thereon;

          (h) No Party shall be bound to make any investigation into the facts
     or matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument,
     opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond,
     debenture, note, other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or document,
     but any Party, in its sole discretion, may make reasonable further inquiry
     or investigation into such facts or matters as it may see fit, and, if such
     Party shall determine to make such further inquiry or investigation, it
     shall be given a reasonable opportunity to examine the books, records and
     premises of the Company, personally or by agent or attorney at the sole
     cost of the Company and shall incur no personal liability or additional
     liability of any kind by reason of such inquiry or investigation;

          (i) Any Party may execute any of the powers hereunder or perform any
     duties hereunder either directly or by or through agents or attorneys or an
     Affiliate and no Party shall be personally responsible for any misconduct
     or negligence on the part of any agent or attorney or an Affiliate
     appointed with due care by it hereunder;

          (j) No Party shall be personally liable for any action taken,
     suffered, or omitted to be taken by it in good faith and reasonably
     believed by it to be authorized or within the discretion or rights or
     powers conferred upon it by this Unit Agreement;

          (k) No Party shall be deemed to or have notice of any default or event
     of default unless an officer in the corporate trust department of such
     Party has actual knowledge thereof or has received a written notice that
     references the Units and this Unit Agreement;

          (l) The rights, privileges, protections, immunities and benefits given
     to each Party, including, without limitation, its right to be indemnified,
     are extended to, and shall be enforceable by, such Party in each of its
     capacities hereunder, and to each agent, custodian and other Person
     employed to act hereunder;

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          (m) The recitals contained herein and in the Certificates shall be
     taken as the statements of the Company, and no Party assumes any
     responsibility for their accuracy. No Party makes any representations as to
     the validity or sufficiency of either this Unit Agreement or of the Units;

          (n) Any Party in its individual or any other capacity, may become the
     owner or pledgee of Units and may otherwise deal with the Company or any
     other Person with the same rights it would have if it were not a Party;

          (o) The Company agrees to pay each Party such compensation, and to
     reimburse each Party for such expenses, as shall be provided from time to
     time in the Declaration and the Warrant Agreement to which such Party is a
     signatory;

          (p) The provisions of this Section shall survive the termination of
     this Unit Agreement and the resignation or removal of a Party;

          (q) No Party shall be accountable for the use or application by the
     Company of Units or the proceeds thereof; and

          (r) In the event that a Party is unable to decide between alternative
     courses of action permitted or required under this Agreement or any other
     document, or is unsure as to the application of any provision of this
     Agreement or any other document, or any such provision may be ambiguous as
     to its application or in conflict with any other applicable provision,
     permits any determination by a Party, or is silent or incomplete as to the
     course of action that a Party is required to take with respect to a
     particular set of facts, a Party may give notice (in such form as shall be
     appropriate under the circumstances) to the Company and/or to the Holders
     requesting instruction from any of them, and to the extent that a Party
     acts or refrains from acting in good faith in accordance with any such
     instruction received, a Party shall not be personally liable, on account of
     such action or inaction, to any Person, and if a Party shall not have
     received appropriate instruction within 10 days of such notice (or within
     such shorter period of time as reasonably may be specified in such notice
     or may be necessary under the circumstances) it may, but shall be under no
     duty to, take or refrain from taking action, and shall have no personal
     liability to any Person for such action or inaction.

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     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Unit Agreement to
be duly executed as of the day and year first above written.

                                        NEW YORK COMMUNITY BANCORP, INC.

                                        By:
                                            ------------------------------------
                                            Name:
                                            Title:

                                        WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY, not in its
                                        individual capacity, but solely as Agent

                                        By:
                                            ------------------------------------
                                            Name:
                                            Title:

                                        WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY, not in its
                                        individual capacity, but solely as
                                        Warrant Agent

                                        By:
                                            ------------------------------------
                                            Name:
                                            Title:

                                        WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY, not in its
                                        individual capacity, but solely as
                                        Property Trustee

                                        By:
                                            ------------------------------------
                                            Name:
                                            Title:

                                        NEW YORK COMMUNITY CAPITAL TRUST V

                                        By:
                                            ------------------------------------
                                            Name:
                                            Title:

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                                                                       EXHIBIT A

                               FACE OF CERTIFICATE

     [THIS CERTIFICATE IS A GLOBAL UNIT WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE UNIT AGREEMENT
HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST
COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION (THE "DEPOSITARY"), OR A NOMINEE OF THE
DEPOSITARY. THIS CERTIFICATE IS EXCHANGEABLE FOR CERTIFICATES REGISTERED IN THE
NAME OF A PERSON OTHER THAN THE DEPOSITARY OR ITS NOMINEE ONLY IN THE LIMITED
CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE UNIT AGREEMENT AND NO TRANSFER OF THIS
CERTIFICATE (OTHER THAN A TRANSFER OF THIS CERTIFICATE AS A WHOLE BY THE
DEPOSITARY TO A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY OR BY A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY TO
THE DEPOSITARY OR ANOTHER NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY) MAY BE REGISTERED EXCEPT IN
LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES.

     UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE
DEPOSITARY OR ITS NOMINEE FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND
ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR SUCH OTHER
NAME AS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITARY OR ITS
NOMINEE (AND ANY PAYMENT HEREON IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS
IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITARY OR ITS NOMINEE),
ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY
PERSON IS WRONGFUL SINCE THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN
INTEREST HEREIN.]

     THE CONSTITUENT COMPONENTS OF THIS UNIT MUST BE SEPARATED PRIOR TO TRANSFER
(EXCEPT AS PART OF A UNIT) AS PROVIDED IN THE UNIT AGREEMENT.

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Certificate No.: CUSIP No.:64944P 30 7
Number of Securities:5,500,000

                        NEW YORK COMMUNITY BANCORP, INC.
                       NEW YORK COMMUNITY CAPITAL TRUST V
                                  Unit Security

     This Certificate certifies that Cede & Co. is the registered Holder of the
number of Units set forth above. Each Security consists of (i) beneficial
ownership by the Holder of one Preferred Security (the "Preferred Security") of
New York Community Capital Trust V, a Delaware statutory trust (the "Trust"),
having a stated liquidation amount of $50, the form of which is attached as
Annex A hereto and (ii) the rights and obligations of the Holder under one
Warrant to purchase shares of common stock of New York Community Bancorp Inc., a
Delaware corporation (the "Company"), the form of which is attached as Annex B
hereto. All capitalized terms used herein which are defined in the Unit
Agreement (as defined on the reverse hereof) have the meanings set forth
therein.

     Distributions on any Preferred Security forming part of a Security
evidenced hereby, which are payable quarterly in arrears on February 1, May 1,
August 1, and November 1 of each year, commencing on February 1, 2003 (a
"Payment Date"), shall, subject to receipt thereof by the Unit Agent, be paid to
the Person in whose name this Certificate (or a Predecessor Certificate) is
registered at the close of business on the Record Date for such Payment Date,
except that the proceeds of a Remarketing will be paid to the Warrant Agent in
satisfaction of each Electing Remarketing Holder's obligations to pay the
Exercise Price of Warrants constituting a part of this Security.

     Distributions on the Preferred Securities will be payable at an office of
the Unit Agent or, at the option of the Company, by check mailed to the address
of the Person entitled thereto as such address appears on the Register.

     Reference is hereby made to the further provisions set forth on the reverse
hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as
if set forth at this place.

     Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by the
Unit Agent by manual signature, this Certificate shall not be entitled to any
benefit under the Unit Agreement, the Warrant Agreement or the Declaration or be
valid or obligatory for any purpose.

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     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have caused this Certificate to be duly
executed.

                                        NEW YORK COMMUNITY BANCORP, INC.

                                        By:
                                            ------------------------------------
                                            Name:
                                            Title:

                                        NEW YORK COMMUNITY CAPITAL TRUST V

                                        By:
                                            ------------------------------------
                                            Name:
                                            Title:  Administrative Trustee

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                      AGENT'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

     This is one of the Certificates referred to in the within mentioned Unit
Agreement.

Dated:                                  WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY, not in its
                                        individual capacity, but solely as Agent

                                        By:
                                            ------------------------------------
                                            Authorized Signatory

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                        (FORM OF REVERSE OF CERTIFICATE)

     Each Security evidenced hereby is governed by a Unit Agreement, dated as of
___________, 2002 (as may be amended or supplemented from time to time, the
"Unit Agreement"), among New York Community Bancorp, Inc. ("the Company"),
Wilmington Trust Company, as unit agent (including its successors thereunder,
the "Agent"), Wilmington Trust Company, as Warrant Agent, and Wilmington Trust
Company, as Property Trustee, to which Agreement reference is hereby made for a
description of the respective rights, limitations of rights, obligations, duties
and immunities thereunder of the Unit Agent, the Company, and the Holders and of
the terms upon which the Certificates are, and are to be, executed and
delivered. Pursuant to the Unit Agreement, the rights, limitations or rights,
obligations, duties and immunities of the Unit Agent, the Company, and the
Holders, and the Certificates include the rights, obligations, duties and
immunities set forth in the Warrant Agreement and the Declaration, to which
reference is further made for a description thereof.

     Each Security evidenced hereby consists of (i) beneficial ownership by the
Holder of one Preferred Security of New York Community Capital Trust V having a
stated liquidation amount of $50, the form of which is attached as Annex A
hereto and (ii) the rights and obligations of the Holder under one Warrant to
purchase shares of common stock of the Company, the form of which is attached as
Annex B hereto.

     The Company may, under the circumstances described in the Declaration,
cause a Remarketing of the outstanding Preferred Securities which form a part of
this Security. In connection therewith, the Company will, as described in the
Warrant Agreement, redeem all Warrants which form a part of this Security.

     In no event may a Holder pay the Exercise Price of a Warrant by tendering a
Preferred Security. In accordance with the terms of the Declaration and the Unit
Agreement, the Holder of this Certificate may pay the Exercise Price for the
shares of Common Stock purchased pursuant to each Warrant constituting a part of
this Security by applying the proceeds of a remarketing of the related Preferred
Securities.

     A Holder of a Security who does not affirmatively elect NOT to participate
in a Remarketing on or prior to 5:00 p.m. New York City time on the Business Day
immediately preceding the Remarketing Date, will be deemed to have consented to
participation in such Remarketing. A Holder of a Security who does not
affirmatively elect on or prior to 5:00 p.m. on the Business Day preceding a
Remarketing Settlement Date to exercise the Warrants related to such Security
will be deemed to have consented to a redemption of such Warrants on the
Remarketing Settlement Date. A Remarketing sale will be made by the Remarketing
Agent pursuant to the terms of the Remarketing Agreement on the Remarketing
Date.

     A holder may exercise the Warrants which form a part of the Units evidenced
by this Certificate at any time upon compliance with the procedures specified in
the Warrant Agreement. A Holder of a Security evidenced by this Certificate who
elects to exercise Warrants prior to the Remarketing Settlement Date shall have
the right to require the Trust to exchange the related Preferred Securities for
Debentures having an Accreted Value equal to the Accreted Value of such
Preferred Securities and to require the Company to repurchase such Debentures on
the next Required Repurchase Date which is no less than 180 days after the
applicable exercise date.

     Upon receipt of written notice of any meeting at which holders of Preferred
Securities are entitled to vote or upon the solicitation of consents, waivers or
proxies of holders of Preferred Securities, the Unit Agent shall, as soon as
practicable thereafter, mail to the Holders a notice (a) containing such
information as is contained in the notice or solicitation, (b) stating that each
Holder on the record date set by the Unit

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Agent therefor (which, to the extent possible, shall be the same date as the
record date for determining the holders of Preferred Securities entitled to
vote) shall be entitled to instruct the Unit Agent in writing as to the exercise
of the voting rights pertaining to the Preferred Securities constituting a part
of such Holder's Security and (c) stating the manner in which such written
instructions may be given. Upon the written request of the Holders as of such
record date, the Unit Agent shall endeavor insofar as practicable to vote or
cause to be voted, in accordance with the instructions set forth in such
requests, the maximum number of Preferred Securities as to which any particular
written voting instructions are received. In the absence of specific written
instructions from the Holder of a Security, the Unit Agent shall abstain from
voting the Preferred Security evidenced by such Security.

     Upon the liquidation of the Trust, a principal amount of the Debentures
constituting the assets of the Trust and underlying the Preferred Securities
equal to the aggregate Accreted Value of the Preferred Securities shall be
delivered to the Unit Agent in exchange for, and for delivery against surrender
of, the Preferred Securities. Thereafter, the Holders shall have such rights and
obligations with respect to the Debentures as the Holders had in respect of the
Preferred Securities and any reference herein to the Preferred Securities shall
be deemed to be a reference to the Debentures.

     The Certificates are issuable only in registered form and only in
denominations of a single Security and any integral multiple thereof. The
transfer of any Certificate will be registered and Certificates may be exchanged
as provided in the Unit Agreement. The Registrar may require a Holder, among
other things, to furnish appropriate endorsements and transfer documents under
the Unit Agreement. No service charge shall be required for any such
registration of transfer or exchange, but the Company and the Unit Agent may
require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental
charge payable in connection therewith. A Security shall be separable into its
components, and Units may be recreated as provided in the Unit Agreement;
provided, however, this Certificate shall not represent more than 5,500,000
Units. All such adjustments to the equivalent aggregate amount of this
Certificate shall be duly recorded by placing an appropriate notation on the
Schedule attached hereto.

     The Holder of this Certificate, by its acceptance hereof, expressly
withholds any consent to the assumption (i.e., affirmance) of the Warrant
Agreement or the Warrants by the Company or its trustee in the event that the
Company becomes the subject of a case under the Bankruptcy Code.

     The Holder of this Certificate, by its acceptance hereof, expressly agrees
to be bound by the terms and provisions of the Unit Agreement, the Warrant
Agreement and the Declaration.

     Subject to certain exceptions, the provisions of the Unit Agreement may be
amended with the consent of the Holders of a majority in number of the Units.

     The Company, the Unit Agent and its Affiliates and any agent of the Company
or the Unit Agent may treat the Holder in whose name this Certificate is
registered as the owner of the Security evidenced hereby for the purpose of
receiving payments of distributions payable quarterly on the Preferred
Securities and for all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not any payments in
respect thereof be overdue and notwithstanding any notice to the contrary, and
neither the Company, the Unit Agent nor any such agent shall be affected by
notice to the contrary.

     The Warrants shall not, prior to the exercise thereof, entitle the Holder
to any of the rights of a holder of shares of Common Stock.

     A copy of the Unit Agreement, the Warrant Agreement, the Declaration, the
Resale Registration Rights Agreement and all exhibits to each such agreement is
available for inspection upon written request and reasonable advance notice to
the Unit Agent at an office of the Unit Agent.

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     This Security shall be governed by the laws of the State of New York,
without regard to principles of conflicts of law.

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                                  ABBREVIATIONS

     The following abbreviations, when used in the inscription on the face of
this instrument, shall be construed as though they were written out in full
according to applicable laws or regulations:

TEN COM-                          as tenants in common
UNIF GIFT MIN ACT-                      ------------Custodian------------
                                                                          (cust)
                                                                         (minor)

                                  Under Uniform Gifts to Minors Act of
                                  ----------------------------------------------
TEN ENT-                          as tenants by the entireties
JT TEN-                           as joint tenants with right of survivorship
                                  and not as tenants in common

     Additional abbreviations may also be used though not in the above list.

     FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sell(s), assign(s) and
transfer(s) unto

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               (Please insert Social Security or Taxpayer I.D. or
                     other Identifying Number of Assignee)

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  (Please Print or Type Name and Address Including Postal Zip Code of Assignee)

the within Certificates and all rights thereunder, hereby irrevocably
constituting and appointing attorney to transfer said Certificates on the books
of [Name of Company] with full power of substitution in the premises.

                                        -------------------------------------
Dated:                                  Signature

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                                        NOTICE: The signature to this assignment
                                        must correspond with the name as it
                                        appears upon the face of the within
                                        Certificates in every particular,
                                        without alteration or enlargement or any
                                        change whatsoever.

Signature Guarantee:

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                     [TO BE ATTACHED TO GLOBAL CERTIFICATES]

            SCHEDULE OF INCREASES OR DECREASES IN GLOBAL CERTIFICATE

        This Global Unit shall represent 5,500,000 Units unless otherwise
                                indicated below.

                  The following increases or decreases in this
                          Global Unit have been made:

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                         Number of Units
                      Amount of decrease in   Amount of increase in    evidenced by this
                         Number of Units        Number of Units       Global Unit following       Signature of
                        evidenced by the         evidenced by the             such            authorized officer of
        Date               Global Unit             Global Unit         decrease or increase           Agent
-------------------   ---------------------   ---------------------   ---------------------   ---------------------
        <S>           <C>                     <C>                     <C>                     <C>
</TABLE>

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                                                                         ANNEX A

                    [FORM OF PREFERRED SECURITY CERTIFICATE]

     This Preferred Security is a Global Preferred Security within the meaning
of the Declaration hereinafter referred to and is registered in the name of The
Depository Trust Company, a New York corporation (the "Clearing Agency"), or a
nominee of the Clearing Agency. This Preferred Security is exchangeable for
Preferred Securities registered in the name of a person other than the Clearing
Agency or its nominee only in the limited circumstances described in the
Declaration, and no transfer of this Preferred Security (other than a transfer
of this Preferred Security as a whole by the Clearing Agency to a nominee of the
Clearing Agency or by a nominee of the Clearing Agency to the Clearing Agency or
another nominee of the Clearing Agency) may be registered except in limited
circumstances. Unless this certificate is presented by an authorized
representative of the Clearing Agency to New York Community Capital Trust V or
its agent for registration of transfer, exchange or payment, and any certificate
issued is registered in the name of Cede & Co. or such other name as requested
by an authorized representative of the Clearing Agency (and any payment hereon
is made to Cede & Co. or to such other entity as is requested by an authorized
representative of the Clearing Agency), and except as otherwise provided in the
Declaration, ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY
OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL since the registered owner hereof, Cede & Co., has
an interest herein.(1)

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(1)  Insert in Global Preferred Securities only.

                   CERTIFICATE EVIDENCING PREFERRED SECURITIES

                                       of

                       NEW YORK COMMUNITY CAPITAL TRUST V

                             6% Preferred Securities

             (stated liquidation amount $50 per Preferred Security)

Certificate No.:                        Number of Preferred Securities 5,500,000
                                                          CUSIP No.: 64944P 20 8

     New York Community Capital Trust V, a statutory business trust created
under the laws of the State of Delaware (the "Trust"), hereby certifies that
(the "Holder") is the registered owner of preferred securities of the Trust
representing undivided beneficial ownership interests in the assets of the Trust
designated the Preferred Securities (stated liquidation amount $50 per Preferred
Security) (the "Preferred Securities"). The Preferred Securities are
transferable on the books and records of the Trust, in person or by a duly
authorized attorney, upon surrender of this certificate duly endorsed and in
proper form for transfer as provided in the Declaration. The designation,
rights, privileges, restrictions, preferences and other terms and provisions of
the Preferred Securities represented hereby are issued and

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shall in all respects be subject to the provisions of the Amended and Restated
Declaration of Trust of the Trust, dated as of ___________, 2002 (as the same
may be amended from time to time (the "Declaration"), among New York Community
Bancorp, Inc., as Sponsor, Joseph R. Ficalora, Robert Wann and Thomas R.
Cangemi, as Administrative Trustees, Wilmington Trust Company, as Property
Trustee, and Wilmington Trust Company, as Delaware Trustee. Capitalized terms
used but not defined herein shall have the meaning given them in the
Declaration. The Holder is entitled to the benefits of the Guarantee Agreement,
dated as of ___________, 2002, between New York Community Bancorp, Inc., as
Guarantor and Wilmington Trust Company, as Guarantee Trustee, in respect of the
Preferred Securities. The Sponsor will provide a copy of the Declaration, the
Guarantee Agreement and the Indenture (including any supplemental indenture) to
a Holder without charge upon written request to the Sponsor at its principal
place of business.

     Upon receipt of this certificate, the Holder is bound by the Declaration
and is entitled to the benefits thereunder.

     By acceptance, the Holder agrees to treat, for United States federal income
tax purposes, the Debentures as indebtedness and the Preferred Securities as
evidence of undivided indirect beneficial ownership interests in the Debentures.

     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Trust has executed this certificate this      day
                                                                      ----
of          , 2002.
   ---------

                                        NEW YORK COMMUNITY CAPITAL TRUST V

                                        By:
                                            ------------------------------------
                                            Name:
                                            Administrative Trustee

PROPERTY TRUSTEE'S CERTIFICATE OF
AUTHENTICATION

This is one of the Preferred Securities referred
to in the within-mentioned Declaration.

Dated:          , 2002
       ---------

WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY, as Property Trustee

By:
    --------------------------------
          Authorized Signatory

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                                   ASSIGNMENT

FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned assigns and transfers this Preferred
Security Certificate to:

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                    (Insert address and zip code of assignee)

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        (Insert assignee's social security or tax identification number)

and irrevocably appoints agent to transfer this Preferred Security Certificate
on the books and records of the Trust. The agent may substitute another to act
for him.

Date:
     ----------------------

Signature:
          ----------------------------------
(Sign exactly as your name appears on the Preferred Security Certificate)

Signature Guarantee*:

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*   Signature must be guaranteed by an "eligible guarantor institution" that is
    a bank, stockbroker, savings and loan association or credit union meeting
    the requirements of the Registrar, which requirements include membership or
    participation in the Units Transfer Agents Medallion Program ("STAMP") or
    such other "signature guarantee program" as may be determined by the
    Registrar in addition to, or in substitution for, STAMP, all in accordance
    with the Units Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

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                      SCHEDULE OF INCREASES OR DECREASES IN

                           GLOBAL PREFERRED SECURITY/2/

     This Global Preferred Security shall represent 0 Preferred Securities
unless otherwise indicated below.

     The following increases or decreases in this Global Preferred Security have
been made:

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                Number of Preferred
                                                                  Units evidenced
                  Amount of decrease in  Amount of increase in        by this
                   Number of Preferred    Number of Preferred     Global Preferred
                     Units evidenced        Units evidenced      Security following       Signature of
                     by this Global          by this Global             such          authorized officer of
      Date         Preferred Security      Preferred Security   decrease or increase          Agent
----------------  ---------------------  ---------------------  --------------------  ---------------------
      <S>         <C>                    <C>                    <C>                   <C>
</TABLE>

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2.   Insert in Global Preferred Securities only.

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                                                                         ANNEX B

                          [FORM OF WARRANT CERTIFICATE]

THE WARRANTS REPRESENTED BY THIS CERTIFICATE WERE INITIALLY ISSUED AS PART OF AN
ISSUANCE OF UNITS, EACH OF WHICH CONSISTS OF A WARRANT TO PURCHASE 1.4036 SHARES
(SUBJECT TO ANTI-DILUTION ADJUSTMENTS) OF COMMON STOCK OF THE COMPANY AT THE
EXERCISE PRICE SET FORTH IN THE BELOW-REFERENCED WARRANT AGREEMENT AND A
PREFERRED SECURITY OF NEW YORK COMMUNITY CAPITAL TRUST V (THE "TRUST"). THE
WARRANTS AND THE PREFERRED SECURITIES MAY BE SEPARATED AND TRANSFERRED
SEPARATELY, AND RE-ATTACHED, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF THE UNIT
AGREEMENT.

[UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE
DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION ("DTC"), NEW YORK, NEW YORK, TO
THE COMPANY OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND
ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR SUCH OTHER
NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT
HEREON IS MADE TO CEDE & CO., OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN
AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR
VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED
OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.]

[TRANSFERS OF THIS GLOBAL SECURITY SHALL BE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS IN WHOLE, BUT
NOT IN PART, TO NOMINEES OF DTC OR TO A SUCCESSOR THEREOF OR SUCH SUCCESSOR'S
NOMINEE AND TRANSFERS OF PORTIONS OF THIS GLOBAL SECURITY SHALL BE LIMITED TO
TRANSFERS MADE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE RESTRICTIONS SET FORTH IN THE WARRANT
AGREEMENT.]

No. [ ]   -----------------------       Certificate for   ----------------------
                                        Warrants
                                                           CUSIP No. 649445 11 1

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                      WARRANTS TO PURCHASE COMMON STOCK OF
                        NEW YORK COMMUNITY BANCORP, INC.

     THIS CERTIFIES THAT       , or its registered assigns, is the registered
                         ------
holder of the number of Warrants set forth above (the "Warrants"). Each Warrant
entitles the holder thereof (the "Holder"), at its option and subject to the
provisions contained herein and in the Warrant Agreement referred to below, to
purchase from New York Community Bancorp, Inc., a Delaware corporation ("the
Company"), 1.4036 shares (subject to certain adjustments as set forth in the
Warrant Agreement) of common stock of the Company (the "Common Stock") at the
Exercise Price. This Warrant Certificate shall terminate and become void, and
the related Warrants shall expire, as of 5:00 p.m., New York time, on the
earlier of (i) May 7, 2051 or (ii) the date the Warrants are redeemed by the
Company pursuant to the terms of the Warrant Agreement, as described below (the
"Expiration Date"), or upon the earlier exercise hereof as to all the shares of
Common Stock subject hereto. The number of shares issuable upon exercise of the
Warrants shall be subject to adjustment from time to time as set forth in the
Warrant Agreement.

     This Warrant Certificate is issued under and in accordance with a Warrant
Agreement dated as of __________, 2002 (the "Warrant Agreement"), between the
Company and Wilmington Trust Company, as warrant agent (the "Warrant Agent,"
which term includes any successor Warrant Agent under the Warrant Agreement),
and is subject to the terms and provisions contained in the Warrant Agreement,
to all of which terms and provisions the Holder of this Warrant Certificate
consents by acceptance hereof. The Warrant Agreement is hereby incorporated
herein by reference and made a part hereof. Reference is hereby made to the
Warrant Agreement for a full statement of the respective rights, limitations of
rights, duties and obligations of the Company, the Warrant Agent and the Holders
of the Warrants. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the
meanings ascribed thereto in the Warrant Agreement. A copy of the Warrant
Agreement may be obtained for inspection by the Holder hereof upon written
request to the Warrant Agent at its address for notices specified in the Warrant
Agreement.

     Subject to redemption as described below, the Holder of this Warrant
Certificate shall have the right, prior to the Expiration Date, at such Holder's
option, to exercise the related Warrant and purchase the Exercise Amount
(subject to certain adjustments set forth in the Warrant Agreement) of Common
Stock at the Exercise Price, provided that the Exercise Conditions are met as of
such date. If the Warrant evidenced by this Warrant Certificate is not exercised
at or before 5:00 p.m., New York time, on its Expiration Date, such Warrant
shall become void, and all rights of the Holder of this Warrant Certificate
hereunder and under the Warrant Agreement shall cease. The Warrant or Warrants
evidenced by this Warrant Certificate may be exercised by giving notice to the
Warrant Agent no later than 5:00 p.m., New York time, on the Business Day
preceding the proposed date of exercise of such Warrants and completing the form
of election to purchase set forth on the reverse hereof, and delivering the
same, together with this Warrant Certificate (if this Warrant Certificate shall
then be held in definitive form), to the Warrant Agent no later than 5:00 p.m.,
New York time, on the date of such exercise, together with a Cash Payment
(unless, in accordance with the Warrant Agreement, a Remarketing Payment is to
be made). In no event may a Holder satisfy its obligation to pay the Exercise
Price by tendering Preferred Securities.

     On the date of exercise of the Warrant or Warrants evidenced by this
Warrant Certificate, the Company shall issue, and the Warrant Agent shall
deliver, to or upon the order of the Holder hereof, the Exercise Amount of
Common Stock to which such Holder is entitled, registered in such name or names
as may be directed by such Holder. The date on which this Warrant Certificate
and payment are received by the Warrant Agent as aforesaid shall be deemed to be
the date on which the related Warrant is exercised and the related Common Stock
is issued.

     Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Warrant Certificate or in
the Warrant Agreement, (i) no fractional shares of Common Stock shall be issued
by the Company upon the exercise of any

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Warrant, (ii) if more than one Warrant shall be exercised at the same time by
the same Holder, the number of shares of Common Stock issuable in connection
with such exercise shall be computed on the basis of the aggregate Exercise
Amount of the Warrants so exercised, and (iii) on the date a Holder exercises
such Holder's Warrant, the Company shall pay such Holder an amount in cash equal
to the then-current Market Price (multiplied by the related fraction) of Common
Stock for such fractional shares, computed to the nearest whole cent.

     If fewer than all of the Warrants evidenced by this Warrant Certificate are
exercised, the Company shall execute, and an authorized officer of the
Warrant Agent shall countersign and deliver, a new Warrant Certificate
evidencing the number of Warrants remaining unexercised.

     The "Exercise Conditions" require that, with respect to any Warrant on any
date on which such Warrant is or is proposed to be exercised by the Holder
thereof, such Warrant will not be exercisable unless, at the time of exercise
(i) in the case of a Holder who received Warrants in a transaction exempt from
registration requirements under the Units Act,

          (x) the sale of the shares upon exercise of the Warrants is exempt
     from the registration requirements of the Units Act and such shares of
     Common Stock shall bear the legend set forth in Section 2.02(f) of the
     Warrant Agreement and

          (y) the shares have been registered, qualified or are deemed to be
     exempt under the securities laws of the state of residence of the
     exercising holder of the Warrants;

or (ii) in the case of a Holder who received Warrants transferred pursuant to an
effective shelf registration statement,

          (x) a shelf registration statement covering the issuance of the Common
     Stock upon exercise of the Warrant is then in effect;

          (y) the shares have been registered, qualified or are deemed to be
     exempt under the securities laws of the state of residence of the
     exercising holder of the Warrants; and

          (z) a then current prospectus is delivered to exercising holders of
     the Warrants.

     As provided in the Warrant Agreement, the number of shares of Common Stock
issuable upon the exercise of the Warrants is subject to an anti-dilution
adjustment upon the happening of certain events. The Warrant Agreement also
provides for certain adjustments and/or distributions in the event of certain
events relating to a merger or combination of the Company, and similar events.

     Subject to satisfaction of the Exercise Conditions and certain other
conditions, the Company may elect to cause a remarketing of the Preferred
Securities and a contemporaneous redemption of the Warrants on the Redemption
Date, for cash, in an amount equal to the Warrant Value as of the Remarketing
Date, in accordance with the Warrant Agreement and related agreements.

     A Holder (i) may elect to exercise a Warrant in lieu of Redemption, if (A)
such Warrant is held pursuant to the Unit Agreement, and such Holder has opted
out of participating in the Remarketing, by notice given to the Warrant Agent
and the Unit Agent; or (B) such Warrant is not held pursuant to the Unit
Agreement, by notice given to the Warrant Agent, in each case prior to 5:00
p.m., New York time, on the Business Day prior to the related Redemption Date;
and (ii) as provided in the Unit Agreement, shall be deemed to have elected to
exercise such Warrant in lieu of Redemption, if such Warrant is held pursuant to
the Unit Agreement and such Holder has not opted out of participating in the
Remarketing. In

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the absence of an election to exercise a Warrant in lieu of a Redemption,
including a deemed election pursuant to clause (ii) of the preceding sentence, a
Holder will be deemed to have elected to have its Warrants redeemed on the
Redemption Date.

     If a Holder elects or is deemed to have elected to exercise a Warrant
pursuant to the preceding paragraph, then such Holder must tender the Exercise
Price for such Warrant as a Cash Payment, and must follow certain procedures set
forth in the Warrant Agreement; provided, however, that if (i) such Warrant is,
on the Remarketing Date, held pursuant to the Unit Agreement, (ii) such Holder
has not opted out of participating in the Remarketing, and (iii) a Successful
Remarketing shall have occurred, then the Exercise Price of such Warrant will be
deemed to have been paid by a Remarketing Payment, and the Remarketing Agent
will, in connection with such Remarketing Payment, apply the proceeds of the
Remarketing of the related Preferred Security in accordance with the terms of
the Remarketing Agreement and the Unit Agreement.

     Any Warrant so redeemed or exercised will, upon such redemption or
exercise, cease to be outstanding.

     If a Redemption cannot occur because of an inability, following the
Company's best efforts, to satisfy the Redemption Conditions, the Company will
promptly notify the Warrant Agent and each Holder (at its address specified in
the Warrant Register) thereof. Such event will not constitute a default under
the Warrant Agreement so long as the Company is not otherwise in violation
thereof; and the Company may, under such circumstances, subsequently seek to
remarket the Preferred Securities and contemporaneously redeem the Warrants.

     The Company will, contemporaneously with the giving of notice of
Remarketing, furnish notice of Redemption to the Warrant Agent, which will,
within two Business Days of receipt of such notice, furnish notice thereof to
the Holders of Definitive Warrants, and the Company will request, not later than
four nor more than 20 business days prior to the Remarketing Date, that DTC
notify its Participants holding Warrants of the Remarketing.

     The Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to pay all taxes,
assessments or other governmental charges in connection with the transfer or
exchange of the Warrant Certificates pursuant to the Warrant Agreement, but not
for any exchange or original issuance (not involving a transfer) with respect to
temporary Warrant Certificates, the exercise of the Warrants or the issuance of
the Common Stock.

     This Warrant Certificate may be exchanged at the office of the Warrant
Agent by presenting this Warrant Certificate properly endorsed with a request to
exchange this Warrant Certificate for other Warrant Certificates evidencing an
equal number of Warrants, in accordance with the Warrant Agreement.

     All shares of Common Stock issuable by the Company upon the exercise of the
Warrants shall, upon such issue, be duly and validly issued and fully paid and
non-assessable.

     The holder in whose name this Warrant Certificate is registered may be
deemed and treated by the Company and the Warrant Agent as the absolute owner of
this Warrant Certificate for all purposes whatsoever and neither the Company nor
the Warrant Agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

     Neither this Warrant Certificate, nor the Warrant evidenced hereby,
entitles the Holder hereof to any of the rights of a shareholder of the Company.

                                      A-17

<PAGE>

     This Warrant Certificate shall not be valid or obligatory for any purpose
until it shall have been countersigned by the Warrant Agent.

                                        NEW YORK COMMUNITY BANCORP, INC.

                                        By:
                                            ------------------------------------
                                            Name:
                                            Title:

DATED:

Countersigned:

---------------------------------------
WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY,
as Warrant Agent

By
  -------------------------------------
     Authorized Signatory

                                      A-18

<PAGE>

                    FORM OF ELECTION TO PURCHASE COMMON STOCK
                 (to be executed only upon exercise of Warrants)

                        NEW YORK COMMUNITY BANCORP, INC.

     The undersigned hereby irrevocably elects to exercise    Warrants at an
Exercise Price of $   per Warrant to acquire the Exercise Amount (as determined
pursuant to the Warrant Agreement) per Warrant of Common Stock of New York
Community Bancorp, Inc. on the terms and conditions specified within this
Warrant Certificate and the Warrant Agreement therein referred to, surrenders
this Warrant Certificate and all right, title and interest therein and directs
that the shares of Common Stock deliverable upon such exercise be registered or
placed in the name and at the address specified below and delivered thereto.

     The signature below must correspond with the name as written upon the face
of the within Warrant Certificate in every particular, without alteration or
enlargement or any change whatsoever, and must be guaranteed.

Date:
          -----------------
          ----------------------------------------------------------------------
          (Signature of Holder)

          ----------------------------------------------------------------------
          (Street Address)

          ----------------------------------------------------------------------
          (City)  (State)              (Zip Code)

          Signature Guaranteed by:

          ----------------------------------------------------------------------
          (Signature must be guaranteed by an eligible guarantor
          institution (banks, stock brokers, savings and loan
          associations and credit unions) with membership in an approved
          guarantee medallion program pursuant to Units and Exchange
          Commission Rule 17Ad-5)

     Common Stock to be issued to:

     Please insert social security or identifying number:

Name:
                             ---------------------------
Street Address:
                             ---------------------------
City, State and Zip Code:
                             ---------------------------

     Any unexercised Warrants represented by the Warrant Certificate to be
issued to:

     Please insert social security or identifying number:

Name:
                             ---------------------------
Street Address:
                             ---------------------------
City, State and Zip Code:
                             ---------------------------

                                      A-19

<PAGE>

                     [TO BE ATTACHED TO GLOBAL CERTIFICATES]
            SCHEDULE OF INCREASES OR DECREASES IN GLOBAL CERTIFICATE

     This Global Unit shall represent 0 Warrants unless otherwise indicated
below.

     The following increases or decreases in this Global Unit have been made:

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                      Number of Warrants
                      Amount of decrease in   Amount of increase in    evidenced by this
                       Number of Warrants       Number of Warrants    Global Unit following       Signature of
                        evidenced by the         evidenced by the             such            authorized officer of
        Date               Global Unit             Global Unit        decrease or increase           Agent
-------------------   ---------------------   ---------------------   ---------------------   ---------------------
        <S>           <C>                     <C>                     <C>                     <C>
</TABLE>

                                      A-20

<PAGE>

                                                                       EXHIBIT B

                      INSTRUCTION TO DISREGARD REMARKETING

Wilmington Trust Company, as Agent
1100 North Market Street
Wilmington, Delaware 19890

Attention:  Corporate Trust Administration

Re:            Bifurcated Option Note Unit Units (BONUSES) ("Units") of New York
     ---------
     Community Bancorp, Inc. and New York Community Capital Trust V

     The undersigned Holder hereby advises you that it has elected NOT to
participate in the Remarketing set forth below with respect to the corresponding
number of Preferred Securities that are a component of Units of which the
undersigned is the beneficial owner:

Remarketing Settlement

Date:
                                     -----------------------

Number of Preferred Securities
NOT to Remarket:
                                     -----------------------

     The notification to the Remarketing Agent to be sent by you on the Business
Day immediately preceding the above Remarketing Date shall NOT include the
aggregate number of Preferred Securities set forth above. Unless otherwise
defined herein, terms defined in the Unit Agreement dated ___________, 2002 with
New York Community Bancorp, Inc. and New York Community Capital Trust V are used
herein as defined therein. This notice is being delivered pursuant to Section
5.1 of the Unit Agreement relating to the Units.

Date:

--------------------------------------  ----------------------------------------
                                                       Signature

                                        Signature Guarantee:

                                        ----------------------------------------

Please print name and address of
Registered Holder:

--------------------------------------  ----------------------------------------
Name                                      Social Security or other Taxpayer
                                            Identification Number, if any

Address

--------------------------------------

--------------------------------------

--------------------------------------

                                       B-1

<PAGE>

                                                                       EXHIBIT C

                      NOTICE OF ELECTING REMARKETING HOLDER

Wilmington Trust Company, as Agent
1100 North Market Street
Wilmington, Delaware 19890

Attention:  Corporate Trust Administration

SALOMON SMITH BARNEY INC.

[Address]

Attention:

Re:           Bifurcated Option Note Unit Units (BONUSES) ("Units") of New York
     -------
     Community Bancorp, Inc. and New York Community Capital Trust V

     Reference is made to New York Community Bancorp, Inc.'s notice of
Redemption dated         , 20   notifying Holders of the Units of the redemption
                 --------    --
of the Warrants on         , 20  . This notice constitutes an election by the
                   --------    --
undersigned NOT to redeem the Warrants identified below. The undersigned hereby
advises you of its election to exercise the following number of Warrants which
constitute component parts of Units beneficially owned by the undersigned:

Number of Warrants to Be Exercised:
                                      ----------------------------

     Unless otherwise defined herein, terms defined in the Unit Agreement dated
___________, 2002 with New York Community Bancorp, Inc. and New York Community
Capital Trust V are used herein as defined therein. This notice is being
delivered pursuant to Section 5.1 of the Unit Agreement.

Date:
      --------------------------------  ----------------------------------------
                                                      Signature

                                        Signature Guarantee:
                                                             -------------------
Please print name and address of
Registered Holder:

--------------------------------------  ----------------------------------------
Name                                      Social Security or other Taxpayer
                                            Identification Number, if any

Address

--------------------------------------

--------------------------------------

--------------------------------------

                                       C-1

<PAGE>

                                                                       EXHIBIT D

                 NOTICE OF CHANGE OF CONTROL REDEMPTION ELECTION

Wilmington Trust Company, as Agent
1100 North Market Street
Wilmington, Delaware 19890

Attention:  Corporate Trust Administration

Re:         Bifurcated Option Note Unit Units (BONUSES) ("Units") of New York
     -------
     Community Bancorp, Inc. and New York Community Capital Trust V

     Reference is made to New York Community Bancorp, Inc.'s notice of a Change
of Control dated , 20 . The undersigned hereby advises you of its election to
have the following number of Warrants which constitute component parts of Units
beneficially owned by the undersigned redeemed as aforesaid:

Number of Warrants to Be Redeemed:
                                        ----------------------------------------

     Unless otherwise defined herein, terms defined in the Unit Agreement dated
___________, 2002 with New York Community Bancorp, Inc. and New York Community
Capital Trust V are used herein as defined therein. This notice is being
delivered pursuant to Section 5.3 of the Unit Agreement.

Date:
      --------------------------------  ----------------------------------------
                                                      Signature

                                        Signature Guarantee:

                                        ----------------------------------------
Please print name and address of
Registered Holder:

--------------------------------------  ----------------------------------------
               Name                        Social Security or other Taxpayer
                                             Identification Number, if any

Address

--------------------------------------

--------------------------------------

--------------------------------------

                                       D-1

<PAGE>

                                                                       EXHIBIT E

               NOTICE OF CHANGE OF CONTROL EXCHANGE AND REPURCHASE

Wilmington Trust Company, as Agent
1100 North Market Street
Wilmington, Delaware 19890

Attention:  Corporate Trust Administration

Re:          Bifurcated Option Note Unit Units (BONUSES) ("Units") of New York
     -------
     Community Bancorp, Inc. and New York Community Capital Trust V

     Reference is made to New York Community Bancorp, Inc.'s notice of a Change
of Control dated  , 20 . The undersigned Holder hereby advises you that it has
elected (i) to have the number of Preferred Securities set forth below exchanged
for an equivalent Accreted Value of Debentures and (ii) to have such Debentures
repurchased by New York Community Bancorp, Inc., or its successor, as provided
in the Unit Agreement, the Declaration and the Indenture:

Number of Preferred Securities to
Exchange:
                                        ----------------------------------------

Number of Debentures to Repurchase:
                                        ----------------------------------------

     Unless otherwise defined herein, terms defined in the Unit Agreement dated
___________, 2002 with New York Community Bancorp, Inc. and New York Community
Capital Trust V (the "Unit Agreement") are used herein as defined therein. This
notice is being delivered pursuant to Section 5.3 of the Unit Agreement.

Date:

--------------------------------------  ----------------------------------------
                                                       Signature

                                        Signature Guarantee:

                                        ----------------------------------------

Please print name and address of
Registered Holder:

--------------------------------------  ----------------------------------------
Name                                      Social Security or other Taxpayer
                                            Identification Number, if any

Address

--------------------------------------

--------------------------------------

--------------------------------------

                                       E-1

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