September 9, 2024

Michael A. Shriner
President and Chief Executive Officer
BCB Bancorp, Inc.
104-110 Avenue C
Bayonne, NJ 07002

       Re: BCB Bancorp, Inc.
           Definitive Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A
           Filed March 15, 2024
           File No. 000-50275
Dear Michael A. Shriner:

      We have limited our review of your most recent definitive proxy statement
to those issues
we have addressed in our comments.

       Please respond to this letter by providing the requested information
and/or confirming that
you will revise your future proxy disclosures in accordance with the topics
discussed below. If
you do not believe a comment applies to your facts and circumstances, please
tell us why in your
response.

       After reviewing your response to this letter, we may have additional
comments.

Definitive Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A
Pay Versus Performance, page 37

1.     Please clarify the reference to the NASDAQ Composite Index in footnote
(4) to the pay
       versus performance table, given that we do not see any related data in
the table and Item
       402(v)(8) of Regulation S-K specifically permits smaller reporting
companies to exclude
       peer group disclosure. Also, we are unable to locate the referenced
table below the
       footnote, although we do see that you have included a graph showing the
NASDAQ
       Composite Index. If you choose to include information in your Item
402(v) of Regulation
       S-K disclosure beyond that which is required, please ensure that any
additional disclosure
       is "clearly identified as supplemental, not misleading, and not
presented with greater
       prominence than the required disclosure." See Pay Versus Performance,
Release No. 34-
       95607 (August 25, 2022) [87 FR 55134 (September 8, 2022)] at Section
II.F.3. Please
       also note that the peer group used to satisfy Item 402(v)(2)(iv) of
Regulation S-K must be
       the same peer group used by registrants pursuant to either Item
201(e)(1)(ii) or Item
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       402(b) of Regulation S-K.
2.     We note the graph on page 39 showing the relationship between
compensation actually
       paid to your PEO, the average compensation actually paid to your Non-PEO
NEOs and
       your cumulative total shareholder return. It appears, however, that you
have not provided
       a description of the relationship between compensation actually paid and
net income, as
       required by Item 402(v)(5)(ii) of Regulation S-K. In future filings,
please provide the
       required disclosure. Please note that it is not sufficient to state that
no relationship exists,
       even if a particular measure is not used in setting compensation.
3.     Please ensure that the descriptions and legends accompanying the
relationship disclosure
       on page 39 clearly describe the information that appears in the graph.
Specifically, the
       paragraph above the graph does not reference the supplemental total
shareholder return
       information for the S&P US BMI Banks Index or the NASDAQ Composite
Index. Also,
       if you choose to include information in your disclosure beyond that
which is required by
       Item 402(v) of Regulation S-K, please ensure that any such additional
disclosure is
       identified in accordance with the guidance set forth in comment 1 above.
        We remind you that the company and its management are responsible for
the accuracy
and adequacy of their disclosures, notwithstanding any review, comments, action
or absence of
action by the staff.

       Please contact Jennifer Gowetski at 202-551-3401 or Amanda Ravitz at
202-551-3412
with any questions.



                                                               Sincerely,

                                                               Division of
Corporation Finance
                                                               Disclosure
Review Program