NYC bank ATMs no longer home for the homeless: banks locking doors

Banks all around the Big Apple will be locking out ATM users and the homeless at night in order to stop the homeless from sleeping in the vestibules that also serve as toilets. While this will obviously be an inconvenience for people with jobs who care to use an ATM after hours, it will also require the homeless sleep elsewhere, such as subways and shelters.

Branches for Chase, City National Bank and Citizens have been surreptitiously locking their doors even to customers who have a bank card as early as 10 PM or 11 PM and reopening them early morning, according to The New York Post.

Bank branch employees told The Post that ATM lobbies have become refuges for the homeless who sleep in these small spaces overnight and often use the space as toilets, leaving their feces behind and creating a stinky safety hazard for employees and customers who are afraid to enter the lobbies lest they slip or get mugged.

“A lot of stuff happens at night,” said an ATM technician who did not want to be identified because he’s not authorized to speak to the media. 

Bank of America did not respond for comment as they were engaged in cleaning away a mess left the previous night before they finalized their decision.

Citizens acknowledged the disruption to its service, citing “safety issues.” Surprisingly, they never mentioned the ambience issue as well.

“Like a number of other banks, we have temporarily closed some ATM vestibules overnight at certain New York City branch locations where we have seen repeat activity that could present a potentially dangerous situation for our customers or colleagues,” spokeswoman, Eleni Garbis said in a statement.

A spokesman for Chase, Jerry Dubrowski, said the situation is “fluid” and that the bank is “constantly evaluating the environment in a community.” His definition of "fluid" was not made clear but one can only imagine what Jerry meant.

Some Chase branches may close for a period of time and then reopen for full 24-hour access again, he said, adding that the limited hours apply to a minority of Chase branches in the city.

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Some banks have hired security guards to sit inside the vestibules in the early evening hours, Matt Roberts, president of the 17th Precinct Community Council, and adding that some homeless people have bank cards and can let themselves into the lobbies, but they rarely make withdrawals, only deposits.

Now with New York's illegal immigrant sanctuary city policy, the homeless problem may run amok if they run out of 5-Star hotels to house the illegals and they may end up seeking other places to crash and dump.

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AOC refuses to meet with job-providing bank CEOs

AOC [Antifa's Official Congresswoman] (D and former bartender-NY) refuses to meet with the top executives from the big banks. It's typical that New York politicians meet to discuss issues as these banks provide hundreds of thousands of jobs to the local residents, ranging from bank tellers to investment bankers. These banks are responsible for contributing billions of dollars to the local economy, something that AOC doesn't seem to care much about based on how she scared Amazon from the city, which would have also provided about 25,000 high-paying jobs.

The banks executives in question, have been trying to meet with AOC since she took office in January.

Since the financial collapse in 2008 that led to the Great Recession with its economic suffering, many New York City progressive politicians, such as Comrade Bill de Blasio, have viewed banks as the enemy, and their CEOs  at odds with them over tax policies.

The difference with AOC, however, is that she totally refuses to meet with them and this may be due less to the fact that she's a flaming socialist, and more to the fact that she's a flaming simpleton when it comes to the subject she majored in at college--economics.

She is probably concerned about not making a fool of herself yet again and would rather retain that mysterious, Bob Dylan-ish patina of pseudo-intellect, especially when she wears her glasses and says the word 'and' in two syllables.

“AOC is running a social movement against big money and the banks,” Democratic political consultant Hank Sheinkopf said. “She got away with chasing Amazon out of New York, and she isn’t afraid of JPMorgan and Citigroup, no matter how many people they employ in her district.”

Yes, give her enough power and time, and she will push out all big banks, big business and jobs out of the city meanwhile gaining total control of the toilet paper supply.

“The banks are the city’s biggest employers and it’s just idiotic that she won’t meet with us,” said a senior banking executive who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he or she is afraid of Antifa's violence.

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