North Fork Bancorporation Declares Its Regular Quarterly Dividend

North Fork Bancorporation, Inc. (NYSE:NFB) announced
that its Board of Directors declared its regular quarterly dividend of
$.22 cents per common stock. The dividend will be payable November 15,
2005, to shareholders of record at the close of business on October
28, 2005.
   North Fork is a regional bank holding company headquartered in New
York with approximately $60 billion in assets conducting commercial
and retail banking from 360 branch locations in the Tri-State area
with a complementary national mortgage banking business.