New York credit unions were back to business-as-usual Wednesday, fully staffed after a numbing two-day blizzard shut down operations across a wide swath of the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic.
The $1.55 billion Municipal Credit Union in Manhattan said only three out of its 16 branches were closed during the height of the Dec. 26-27 storm, and that was because snowfall blocked roadways, preventing employees and members from getting to CU facilities.
"We directed staff from those closed branches to go to our other facilities," a spokesman said. About 40% of back office employees managed to get into the CU's headquarters and another 60% made it to the branches.
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