Exhibit 24.1

				POWER OF ATTORNEY

       KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose name appears
below nominates, constitutes and appoints Janna Manes and Lisa Goldstein, and
each of them (with full power to act alone) her true and lawful
attorney-in-fact and agent, for her and on her behalf and in her place and
stead in any and all capacities to execute and submit to the Securities and
Exchange Commission (the "SEC") a Form ID, including amendments thereto, and
any other documents necessary or appropriate to obtain codes and passwords
enabling the undersigned to make electronic filings with the SEC of reports
required by Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended
("the "Exchange Act"), Section 30(h) of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as
amended (the "1940 Act"), or any other applicable rule or regulation of the
SEC, and to execute any and all filings on Form 3 (Initial Statement of
Beneficial Ownership of Securities), Form 4 (Statement of Changes in
Beneficial Ownership of Securities) or Form 5 (Annual Statement of Changes in
Beneficial Ownership of Securities) pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Exchange
Act and Section 30(h) of the 1940 Act ("Form 3, Form 4 and Form 5 Filings")
with respect to changes of beneficial ownership of securities of the funds
listed on Schedule A (collectively, the "Funds"), and to file with the
Securities and Exchange Commission, The New York Stock Exchange and the Funds
such Form 3, Form 4 and Form 5 Filings, granting unto said attorney, full
power and authority to do and perform certain acts and things requisite and
necessary to be done in and about the premises as fully to all intents and
purposes as the undersigned herself might or could do.

       IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has hereunto set his or her hand
this 10th day of April 2017.

/s/ Natalya Zelensky
----------------------------
Name:  Natalya Zelensky
Title:  Counsel and Vice President, BNY Mellon



				SCHEDULE A

Dreyfus High Yield Strategies Fund
Dreyfus Muncipal Bond Infrastructure Fund, Inc.
Dreyfus Municipal Income, Inc.
Dreyfus Strategic Municipal Bond Fund, Inc.
Dreyfus Strategic Municipals, Inc.