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Dime Community Bancshares, Inc. To Join Nasdaq Financial-100 Index Beginning March 6, 2002

Date 27/02/2002

Dime Community Bancshares, Inc. (Nasdaq:DCOM) of Brooklyn, New York, will become a component of the Nasdaq Financial-100 Index® effective at the beginning of trading Wednesday, March 6, 2002. Dime Community Bancshares, Inc. will replace The BISYS Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:BSYS), which is de-listing from The Nasdaq Stock Market®.

With a market capitalization of $503 million, Dime Community Bancshares is a unitary thrift holding company and the parent company of The Dime Savings Bank of Williamsburgh, Brooklyn, New York, which was founded in 1864. The Bank has eighteen branches located throughout Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx and Nassau County, New York, and provides financial services for consumers and businesses and loans for multi-family housing within its market areas.

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