Amendments to Bylaws Form 8 K

On August 29, 2024, the Board of Directors (the "Board") of New York Community Bancorp, Inc. (the "Company") adopted Amended and Restated Bylaws to add a new forum selection provision, as Article VII Section 6, which became effective immediately. The forum selection provision provides that unless the Company consents in writing to the selection of an alternative forum, the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware (or, if the Court of Chancery does not have jurisdiction, another state court located within the State of Delaware or, if no court located within the State of Delaware has jurisdiction, the federal district court for the State of Delaware) shall, to the fullest extent permitted by law, be the sole and exclusive forum for (i) any derivative action or proceeding brought on behalf of the Company, (ii) any action asserting a claim for breach of a fiduciary duty owed by any director, officer, employee, or stockholder of the Company to the Company or its stockholders, (iii) any action asserting a claim arising pursuant to any provision of the Delaware General Corporation Law, the Company's Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, the Amended and Restated Bylaws (in each case, as they may be amended from time to time) or as to which the Delaware General Corporation Law confers jurisdiction on the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware, or (iv) any action asserting a claim governed by the internal affairs doctrine[or any action asserting one or more "internal corporate claims," as defined in Section 115 of the Delaware General Corporation Law. The forum selection provision further provides that, unless the Company consents in writing to the selection of an alternative forum, the federal district courts of the United States of America shall be, to the fullest extent permitted by law, the sole and exclusive forum for any action asserting a claim arising under the Securities Act of 1933.

Additionally, effective as of August 29, 2024, the Board also approved the removal of a previous reference in Article II, Section 1 of the Bylaws to Alessandro P. DiNello serving as Executive Chair of the Company prior to April 1, 2024.

The foregoing summary is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Company's Amended and Restated Bylaws, a copy of which (marked to show changes from the prior version) is filed as an exhibit to this Current Report and incorporated herein by reference.