December 27,2016
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, during the past years there has been a noticeable decline in the reliability of cash machines ie ATM machines for Bank of America customers in Northern New Jersey. While the Ridgewood CBD Branch often has outages, both Oradell and Pamaus are also plagued by frequent downtime.
For the purposes of this article, the Ridgewood blog has defined frequent as at least twice a week.
While bank customers who commute to New York City have a plethora of cash machines available, New Jersey customers are not so lucky. The unlucky Bank of America customer could end up being forced to drive all the way to Hillsdale from Ridgewood due to the fact that the few local cash machines are all down at the same time. Or they are forced to use a different institution’s ATM and suffer higher fees.
Some readers have suggested that this is a blatant attempt by the bank to force debit card purchases in order to better monitor customer movements, while others say cost cutting is to blame.
Out of order cash machines are an extremely rare event in New York City but have become all to common for north jersey residents.
