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                                                                   EXHIBIT 5 (b)

                                   Specimen

              Certificate                                Number of
                Number                                    Shares
                  1                                    680 Series A
                                                       680 Series B

                                   Van Kampen
                 Trust for Investment Grade New York Municipals
                  Organized as a Massachusetts Business Trust
                            Auction Preferred Shares
                         $25,000 Liquidation Preference

                                                            Cusip No.

         This certifies that Cede & Co. is the owner of six hundred eighty
Series A and six hundred eighty Series B fully paid and non-assessable preferred
shares of beneficial interest, par value $.01 per shares, liquidation preference
$25,000 per share, designated Auction Preferred Shares, of Van Kampen Trust for
Investment Grade New York Municipals (the "Fund") transferable only on the books
of the Fund by the holder hereof in person by Attorney upon surrender of this
Certificate properly endorsed. This Certificate is not valid unless
countersigned by the registrar and transfer agent.

         In witness whereof the said Fund has caused this Certificate to be
signed by its duly authorized officer and its corporate seal to be hereunto
affixed this XX day of XXXX, A.D. XXXX.

   Merrill Lynch, Pierce,
Fenner & Smith Incorporated                       Van Kampen
    As Registrar and            Trust for Investment Grade New York Municipals
     Transfer Agent

(illegible signature)      (illegible signature)     (illegible signature)
--------------------       --------------------      --------------------
Authorized Signature            President             Assistant Secretary

         TRANSFER OF THE SHARES REPRESENTED BY THIS CERTIFICATE IS SUBJECT TO
THE RESTRICTIONS SPECIFIED IN THE CERTIFICATE OF VOTE OF THE FUND AND IN THE
MASTER PURCHASER'S LETTER, COPIES OF WHICH ARE FILED WITH THE SECRETARY OF THE
FUND.

         THE FUND WILL FURNISH WITHOUT CHARGE TO EACH SHAREHOLDER WHO SO
REQUESTS THE POWERS, DESIGNATIONS, PREFERENCES AND RELATIVE, PARTICIPATING,
OPTIONAL OR

OTHER SPECIAL RIGHTS OF EACH CLASS OF SHARES OR SERIES THEREOF WHICH IT IS
AUTHORIZED TO ISSUE AND THE QUALIFICATIONS, LIMITATIONS OR RESTRICTIONS OF SUCH
PREFERENCES AND/OR RIGHTS. SUCH REQUEST SHOULD BE ADDRESSED TO THE SECRETARY OF
THE FUND.

         NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THIS CERTIFICATE REPRESENTING THE
REMARKETED PREFERRED SHARES, AND THE OBLIGATIONS ARISING OUT OF THE ISSUANCE
AND SALE OF THE REMARKETED PREFERRED SHARES, ARE NOT BINDING UPON ANY OF THE
TRUSTEES, OFFICERS OR SHAREHOLDERS INDIVIDUALLY BUT ARE BINDING ONLY UPON THE
ASSETS AND PROPERTY OF THE FUND.

         For value received, ______________ does hereby sell, assign and
transfer unto __________________ shares of the Auction Preferred Shares,
represented by the within Certificate, and does hereby irrevocably constitute
and appoint _______________ Attorney to transfer the said shares of beneficial
interest on the books of the within named Fund with full power of substitution
in the premises.

Dated: ___________, 19

In presence of

_____________________________________    __________________________________

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