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New York Post: Hundreds join massive line at NYC ATM to access unemployment benefits

New York Post, May 30, 2020: Hundreds join massive line at NYC ATM to access unemployment benefits

It’s an ATM to die for.

A conveyor belt of cash-strapped New Yorkers — most of them unemployed and some from as far as Queens — queue up every day at an ATM on East 22nd Street. They wait more than two hours on a block-long line, where there is little social distancing and plenty of frustration.

The weary individuals risk catching the coronavirus, in part, because the state issued them — and thousands of other city residents — debit cards for unemployment benefits through KeyBank, which has only a single branch and ATM in the entire city. The branch in Flatiron is closed due to COVID-19, but one ATM is open.

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