Emigrant Savings Bank is the oldest savings bank in New York City and the largest privately owned bank in the country. As of December 2007, Emigrant has 35 branches located in the New York metro area and has assets of $14.3 billion. It also offers an account called Dollar Savings Direct, which offers a relatively high floating interest rate but requires a $1,000 minimum deposit.
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“Let those talk of poverty and hard times who will in the towns and cities; cannot the emigrant who can pay his fare to New York or Boston pay five dollars more to get here ... and be as rich as he pleases, where land virtually costs nothing, and houses only the labor of building, and he may begin life as Adam did? If he will still remember the distinction of poor and rich, let him bespeak him a narrower house forthwith.”
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