Bank of America in Troy, NY, rewards program: review

By Pablo Diaz · I left BoA after years as a customer. Read the full story →

Bank of America keeps 1 branch in Troy, Rensselaer County, 26th of the 61 NY cities in this guide, out of 251 statewide. NY consumers have filed 12,190 CFPB complaints against it, 2,465 of them since January 2025. One customer's experience, mine, set beside what the bank measurably looks like in Troy.

Bank of America's footprint in Troy

Bank of America has 1 branch on file with the FDIC in Troy in Rensselaer County. That is 0.4% of the 251 BoA branches across NY, spread over 20 NY counties in total, and it ranks Troy 26th of the 61 NY cities covered in this guide.

At a single location, in-person options here are thin, and a branch that will not resolve something leaves you with a written escalation rather than a second counter to try. The nearest alternatives in this guide are Albany (4 branches), Schenectady (2 branches), Saratoga Springs (1 branch).

Source: FDIC BankFind: Bank of America, N.A. (certificate 3510)

Branch counts are Bank of America locations on file with the FDIC (certificate 3510) under each city label; New York City and its boroughs are counted by FDIC county. Postal city labels do not always match municipal boundaries, so treat a zero as "none on file under this city label".

How long Bank of America has been in Troy

Every Bank of America office on file in Troy carries the same FDIC establishment year, 1959. The single branch here entered the FDIC record in that year, which usually marks a single acquisition or a single build-out rather than a footprint grown over decades. The oldest sits at 59 3rd St.

The whole Troy footprint sits inside ZIP 12180. Queues, staffing and how much a manager will authorise are not uniform across Troy, so a refusal at 59 3rd St is that office's answer rather than the bank's; the next move is a written escalation, not another queue in Troy.

Practically, Troy's branches all entering the record between 1959 and 1959 points to consistent formats, so a poor counter experience at 59 3rd St is more likely to repeat at the next Troy location than to be one bad branch.

Source: FDIC BankFind, branch establishment records (certificate 3510)

Establishment dates are the FDIC's date of record for each banking office. That date follows the office through mergers and acquisitions, so an early date means a bank branch has operated at that address since then, not that Bank of America itself has been there that long.

What I observed (rewards program)

This is the section that moved my BoA experience from frustration to genuinely suspicious. In my experience, rewards I expected did not credit to my account. I set up auto-redeem AND manually requested redemptions on multiple occasions. Neither path produced a deposit I could see. I contacted support, followed every step, and from my perspective, nothing reached my account.

Rewards were also central to the CFPB's 2023 enforcement order, which cited Bank of America for withholding credit-card rewards. That is the public-record counterpart to what I describe above. A Troy customer who believes rewards did not credit has a documented precedent to reference in a complaint, and 12,190 NY filings already sitting in that database.

My full account, written exactly as I would describe it to a friend, is at /my-banking-story.

What NY customers report, and where Troy sits in it

Troy's 1 branch is 0.4% of the 251 Bank of America branches in NY, the 26th-largest share of the 61 NY cities in this guide. Against that footprint, NY consumers have filed 12,190 CFPB complaints against Bank of America, 4,454 since January 2023, 2,465 since January 2025, or about 49 lifetime filings for every branch the bank runs in the state.

"Checking or savings account" leads the NY file at 2,825, then "Mortgage" at 2,583; the most-reported issue is "Managing an account" at 1,681. None is tagged to Troy (the CFPB records by state), but a filing of your own, with dates and amounts attached, is what turns one account's problem into a pattern.

Whether 1 is a lot depends on what it sits beside: the nearest NY footprints in this guide are Tonawanda with 1 and White Plains with 1.

The file carries no ZIP or city field, so what locates a Troy filing is what you type into it. The Troy branches on the FDIC record are 59 3rd St; name the one you banked at, with its ZIP (12180), in the narrative box.

Source: CFPB Consumer Complaint Database: Bank of America (NY filings)

What the public record shows

• CFPB 2023 enforcement order, $250M total , junk fees, withheld credit-card rewards, fake accounts.
• CFPB 2022 enforcement, $225M , botched unemployment-benefits handling.
• CFPB 2014, $727M in relief , deceptive credit-card add-on practices.
• DOJ RMBS settlement (2014), $16.65 billion , at the time the largest civil settlement with a single entity in U.S. history.
• CFPB Consumer Complaint Database, Bank of America , public, searchable, tens of thousands of complaints.
• BBB profile: Bank of America , public ratings + customer reviews.

Escalating from Troy, in order

Each step produces the evidence the next one expects, so the order matters more than the volume. From Troy, with 1 branch to work with, it runs like this:

1. Do not count on branch escalation. Troy has only 1 branch, so if that one location does not resolve it, move straight to writing; the nearest alternatives in this guide are Albany (4 branches), Schenectady (2 branches).
2. Get it in writing with the bank first: a secure message is dated and quotable, a phone call is not. Name the office in it (59 3rd St is the oldest on the FDIC record in Troy); "my branch" is not a reference anyone can look up.
3. File with the CFPB at consumerfinance.gov/complaint, free, public, answered on the record, and it joins 12,190 filings already logged from NY.
4. File in parallel with New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS), which supervises banks operating in Troy and carries weight a federal queue does not.
5. Chasing a dormant balance rather than a dispute? Different office: NY Office of the State Comptroller, Unclaimed Funds.

Sources: New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) · NY Office of the State Comptroller, Unclaimed Funds · CFPB: file a complaint

If your experience has been similar in Troy

1. File a CFPB complaint. consumerfinance.gov/complaint , free, public, and tends to get a response on the record.
2. File a parallel state complaint. New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS), file a consumer complaint , state regulators carry weight in their own jurisdictions.
3. File a BBB complaint. BBB Bank of America profile.
4. Compare alternatives side-by-side. Review Mercury, RHO, Novo, Relay, Bluevine, Brex, and Found on their real public pricing before you move.
5. Open a new account before closing the old one. 60-90-day buffer.
6. Migrate inflows first, outflows second.

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