ConnectOne Bank Wants To Give You $100 (And Free Coffee)

This post is brought to you by ConnectOne, a new local bank right off the Broadway R train stop. Thank you for supporting the businesses that support We Heart Astoria. -Mackenzi

Have you noticed that new bank perched on top of Astoria staple, Chicken Shack? Well, that’s ConnectOne, a local bank that offers full service personal and business banking. They’ve recently opened on Broadway, right off the R train at Steinway. In addition to having a rather awesome backstory (TL; DR a small business owner couldn’t find a bank that worked for him, so he opened one himself!) they have some really great opening specials WHA readers might want to know about.

To start, when you open a qualifying Simply Better checking account, Connect One will give you $100. It’s got all the good things you want: no monthly fees, payments through peer-to-peer payment service Zelle, easy online banking, and access to like 9,000 fee free ATMS. Oh, right… and that $100.

In addition, ConnectOne wants to give you, the lovely readers of We Heart Astoria, a free gift! Mention WHA when you stop into their branch today and get a nifty coffee tumbler and some coffee to go. In fact, anytime you stop in to work with your ConnectOne banker they’ll have coffee for you, how nice is that? (I will tell you Anna and I both eagerly downed our cups of coffee- new mom realness has that added side effect for me- TIRED ALL THE TIME, GIVE ME COFFEE.)