POWER OF ATTORNEY

                                 WITH RESPECT TO

                  ALLSTATE LIFE OF NEW YORK SEPARATE ACCOUNT A
                                  (REGISTRANT)

                                       AND

                   ALLSTATE LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF NEW YORK
                                   (DEPOSITOR)

        Know all men by these presents that the undersigned director of Allstate
Life Insurance Company of New York constitutes and appoints Casey J. Sylla and
Michael J. Velotta, and each of them (with full power to each of them to act
alone) as her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of
substitution, for her in any and all capacities, to sign any registration
statements of Allstate Life Insurance Company of New York and its Allstate Life
of New York Separate Account A and any amendments thereto, and to file the same,
with exhibits and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities
and Exchange Commission or any other regulatory authority as may be necessary or
desirable, hereby ratifying and confirming all that each of said
attorney-in-fact and agent, or her substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or
cause to be done by virtue hereof.


January 15, 2003

/s/ PHYLLIS HILL SLATER
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      Phyllis Hill Slater
      Director