North Fork Bancorporation Declares a 14% Increase in Its Regular Quarterly Dividend

Business Wire, Dec 13, 2005

MELVILLE, N.Y. -- North Fork Bancorporation, Inc. (NYSE:NFB) announced that its Board of Directors declared a 14% increase in its regular quarterly dividend to $.25 cents per common share. The dividend will be payable February 15, 2006, to shareholders of record at the close of business on January 27, 2006.

North Fork is a regional bank holding company headquartered in New York with approximately $60 billion in assets conducting commercial and retail banking from 362 branch locations in the Tri-State area with a complementary national mortgage banking business.