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<TYPE>EX-99.S
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<FILENAME>dex99s.txt
<DESCRIPTION>POWER OF ATTORNEY
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                                POWER OF ATTORNEY

     We, the undersigned Trustees and officers of PIMCO New York Municipal
Income Fund II (the "Trust"), hereby severally constitute and appoint each of
Stephen J. Treadway, Newton B. Schott, Jr., and Brian S. Shlissel, and each of
them singly, with full powers of substitution and resubstitution, our true and
lawful attorney, with full power to him to sign for us, and in our name and in
the capacities indicated below, any Registration Statement of the Trust on Form
N-2, all Pre-Effective Amendments to any such Registration Statement of the
Trust, any and all subsequent Post-Effective Amendments to said Registration
Statement, any and all supplements or other instruments in connection therewith,
and any subsequent Registration Statements for the same offering which may be
filed under Rule 462(b), and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and
other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange
Commission and the securities regulators of the appropriate states and
territories, and generally to do all such things in our name and on our behalf
in connection therewith as said attorney deems necessary or appropriate to
comply with the Securities Act of 1933, the Investment Company Act of 1940, all
related requirements of the Securities and Exchange Commission and of the
appropriate state and territorial regulators, granting unto said attorney full
power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite or
necessary to be done in connection therewith, as fully to all intents and
purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all
that said attorney lawfully could do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

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Name                                Capacity                  Date
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<S>                                <C>                       <C>


/s/ Stephen J. Treadway             President                      June 28, 2002
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Stephen J. Treadway


/s/ Paul Belica                     Trustee                        June 28, 2002
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Paul Belica


/s/ Robert E. Connor                Trustee                        June 28, 2002
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Robert E. Connor


/s/ John J. Dalessandro II          Trustee                        June 28, 2002
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John J. Dalessandro II


/s/ Hans Kertess                    Trustee                        June 28, 2002
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Hans Kertess


/s/ R. Peter Sullivan, III          Trustee                        June 28, 2002
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R. Peter Sullivan, III


/s/ Newton B. Schott, Jr.           Vice President and             June 28, 2002
----------------------------------  Secretary
Newton B. Schott, Jr.



/s/ Brian S. Shlissel               Treasurer and                  June 28, 2002
----------------------------------  Principal Financial and
Brian S. Shlissel                   Accounting Officer

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