Exhibit 4



              INCORPORATED UNDER THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE



No.________             ATLANTIC LIBERTY FINANCIAL CORP.         Shares_________


                          FULLY PAID AND NON-ASSESSABLE
                              PAR VALUE $0.10 EACH

                                                  THE SHARES REPRESENTED BY THIS
                                                    CERTIFICATE ARE SUBJECT TO
                                                  RESTRICTIONS, SEE REVERSE SIDE

THIS CERTIFIES that                                              is the owner of

                            SHARES OF COMMON STOCK OF

                        Atlantic Liberty Financial Corp.
                             a Delaware corporation

         The shares evidenced by this  certificate are transferable  only on the
books of Atlantic Liberty  Financial Corp. by the holder hereof, in person or by
attorney,  upon surrender of this  certificate  properly  endorsed.  The capital
stock evidenced hereby is not an account of an insurable type and is not insured
by the  Federal  Deposit  Insurance  Corporation  or any other  Federal or state
governmental agency.

         IN WITNESS WHEREOF,  Atlantic  Liberty  Financial Corp. has caused this
certificate to be executed,  by the facsimile  signatures of its duly authorized
officers and has caused a facsimile of its seal to be hereunto affixed.




By                                [SEAL]         By
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  WILLIAM M. GILFILLAN,                            BARRY M. DONOHUE,
  CORPORATE SECRETARY                              PRESIDENT AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE
                                                     OFFICER







      The Board of Directors of Atlantic Liberty Financial Corp. (the "Company")
is  authorized  by resolution  or  resolutions,  from time to time  adopted,  to
provide for the  issuance of more than one class of stock,  including  preferred
stock  in  series,  and  to fix  and  state  the  voting  powers,  designations,
preferences,  limitations and restrictions  thereof. The Company will furnish to
any shareholder upon request and without charge a full description of each class
of stock and any series thereof.

      The shares  evidenced  by this  Certificate  are  subject to a  limitation
contained in the  Certificate  of  Incorporation  to the effect that in no event
shall any record owner of any  outstanding  Common  Stock which is  beneficially
owned,  directly or indirectly,  by a person who beneficially  owns in excess of
10% of the  outstanding  shares of Common  Stock (the  "Limit")  be  entitled or
permitted to any vote in respect of shares held in excess of the Limit.

      The shares  represented by this Certificate may not be cumulatively  voted
on any matter. The Certificate of Incorporation requires the affirmative vote of
the  holders  of at least 80% of the  voting  stock of the  Corporation,  voting
together as a single class, to approve certain transactions and to amend certain
provisions of the Certificate of Incorporation.

      The following  abbreviations  when used in the  inscription on the face of
this  certificate,  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)
     TEN ENT - as tenants by the entireties
                                               Under Uniform Gifts to Minors Act
     JT TEN  - as joint tenants with right
               of survivorship and not as      _________________________________
               tenants in common                            (State)

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

For value received, ______________________ hereby sell, assign and transfer unto


PLEASE INSERT SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER OR OTHER IDENTIFYING NUMBER


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             (please print or typewrite name and address including
                          postal zip code of assignee)


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Shares of the Common Stock represented by the within Certificate,  and do hereby
irrevocably constitute and appoint_________________________Attorney to  transfer
the said shares on the books of the within named  corporation with full power of
substitution in the premises.

Dated, _____________________________

In the presence of                                Signature:


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NOTE:  THE SIGNATURE TO THIS  ASSIGNMENT  MUST  CORRESPOND  WITH THE NAME OF THE
STOCKHOLDER(S) AS WRITTEN UPON THE FACE OF THE CERTIFICATE, IN EVERY PARTICULAR,
WITHOUT ALTERATION OR ENLARGEMENT, OR ANY CHANGE WHATSOEVER.