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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001193125-16-505387
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	CORRESP
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		1
FILED AS OF DATE:		20160315

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			NEW YORK COMMUNITY BANCORP INC
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000910073
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	SAVINGS INSTITUTIONS, NOT FEDERALLY CHARTERED [6036]
		IRS NUMBER:				061377322
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			DE
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		CORRESP

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		615 MERRICK AVE
		CITY:			WESTBURY
		STATE:			NY
		ZIP:			11590
		BUSINESS PHONE:		7183596400

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		615 MERRICK AVE
		CITY:			WESTBURY
		STATE:			NY
		ZIP:			11590

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	QUEENS COUNTY BANCORP INC
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	19930802
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">[New York Community Bancorp, Inc. Letterhead] </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">March 15, 2016 </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><U>Via EDGAR </U></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">100 F
Street, NE, </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:8%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Division of Corporation Finance, </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:13%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Washington, D.C. 20549. </P> <P STYLE="font-size:12pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD WIDTH="13%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left">Attention:</TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top">Era Anagnosti </TD></TR></TABLE>
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<TD WIDTH="13%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top">Christopher Dunham </TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="font-size:18pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD WIDTH="5%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left">Re:</TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top">New York Community Bancorp, Inc. <U> </U></TD></TR></TABLE>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><U>Registration Statement on Form S-4 (Reg. No.&nbsp;333-208649)</U> </TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Ladies and Gentlemen: </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:8%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">New York Community Bancorp, Inc. (&#147;<U>NYCB</U>&#148;) hereby requests that the effectiveness under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended,
of the above-captioned Registration Statement on Form S-4, as amended, be accelerated to 4:00 pm Eastern time on March&nbsp;16, 2016, or as soon thereafter as practicable. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:8%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">In connection with the foregoing request for acceleration of effectiveness, NYCB hereby acknowledges the following: </P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top">should the Securities and Exchange Commission (the &#147;<U>Commission</U>&#148;) or the staff of the Commission, acting pursuant to delegated authority, declare the filing effective, it does not foreclose the
Commission from taking any action with respect to the filing; </TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="font-size:6pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top">the action of the Commission or the staff of the Commission, acting pursuant to delegated authority, in declaring the filing effective, does not relieve NYCB from its full responsibility for the adequacy and accuracy of
the disclosure in the filing; and </TD></TR></TABLE>

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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top">NYCB may not assert this declaration of effectiveness as a defense in any proceeding initiated by the Commission or any person under the federal securities laws of the United States. </TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:8%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Please contact Jared M. Fishman of Sullivan&nbsp;&amp; Cromwell LLP, at (212)&nbsp;558-1689 or Katherine A. McGavin of Sullivan&nbsp;&amp;
Cromwell LLP at (212)&nbsp;558-4956 with any questions you may have concerning this request. In addition, please notify Mr.&nbsp;Fishman or Mrs.&nbsp;McGavin when this request for acceleration has been granted. </P>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:1pt; border-bottom:1px solid #000000; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">/s/ R. Patrick Quinn, Esq.</P></TD></TR>
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