EXHIBIT 16.3

                   NUVEEN NEW YORK MUNICIPAL VALUE FUND, INC.

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                               POWER OF ATTORNEY
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KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned, a director of the above
referenced organization, hereby constitutes and appoints RICHARD J. FRANKE,
TIMOTHY R. SCHWERTFEGER, JAMES J. WESOLOWSKI, LARRY W. MARTIN, GIFFORD R.
Z1MMERMAN and MORRISON C. WARREN, and each of them (with full power to each of
them to act alone) his true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, for him on
his behalf and in his name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign,
execute and affix his seal thereto and file one or more Registration Statements
on Form N-14, under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the Investment
Company Act of 1940, as amended, including any amendment or amendments thereto,
with all exhibits, and any and all other documents required to be filed with any
regulatory authority, federal or state, relating to the reorganization, without
limitation, granting unto said attorneys, and each of them, full power and
authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary
to be done in and about the premises in order to effectuate the same as fully to
all intents and purposes as he might or could do if personally present, hereby
ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of
them, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned director of the above-referenced
organization has hereunto set his hand this 10th day of August, 1995.


                                    /s/ Lawrence H. Brown
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                                    Lawrence H. Brown


STATE OF ILLINOIS  )
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COUNTY OF COOK     )

On this 10th day of August, 1995, personally appeared before me, a Notary Public
in and for said County and State, the person named above who is known to me to
be the person whose name and signature is affixed to the foregoing Power of
Attorney and who acknowledged the same to be his voluntary act and deed for the
intent and purposes therein set forth.


(SEAL)                              /s/  
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