u/Light_Yagami72

Apparently they can run out of pre-order inventory.

Hello, fellow finance and tech bros.

I understand that in these tiring times and challenging economic conditions, many of us have unfortunately been forced to live paycheck to paycheck. Some of us have even had to dip into our savings accounts. Truly difficult times. Anyway, I just checked the offers section on my American Express Platinum Card, and apparently my American Express Platinum Card is subsidizing 66% of my next 5 rides.

I wish the American Express Platinum Card would subsidize 100% of my rides, but I understand that even the American Express Platinum Card has limits. A man can only dream. I would highly recommend all of you check the offers section on your American Express Platinum Card. You might be surprised by what your American Express Platinum Card is willing to subsidize for you during these difficult economic times.

God bless the American Express Platinum Card.

TC: $550k

I pulled Citi Bike's live station feed, every station, every dock dropped each one into its actual borough (point-in-polygon on the city's official boundaries) and lined it up against 2020 population. Here's who actually has Citi Bike.

Borough Docks Docks per 10k % of docks % of people

Manhattan 31,927 188 45% 19%

Brooklyn 20,138 74 28% 31%

Queens 11,223 47 16% 27%

Bronx 7,792 53 11% 17%

Staten Island 0 0 0% 6%

So, the headline: Manhattan has 45% of every Citi Bike dock in the city but only 19% of the people 2.3x its fair share. A Manhattan resident gets 188 docks per 10,000 people; a Queens resident gets 47. Four times the access for the same membership.

Manhattan alone (1.7M people) has more docks — 31,927 — than Queens and the Bronx combined (19,015 docks, 3.9M people).

And Staten Island, half a million people, has zero. Not "a few." Zero.

"But Manhattan's denser, so obviously" — I checked, and density doesn't explain it. Manhattan is about twice as dense as the Bronx (74k vs 35k people/sq mi), but it has seven times the dock density (1,398 vs 185 docks/sq mi).

The Bronx is actually denser than Queens and still gets fewer docks per person than Brooklyn. If Citi Bike tracked where people actually live, Queens and the Bronx would have roughly double what they've got. It doesn't track density — it tracks the rollout map, which went Manhattan and brownstone Brooklyn first and worked outward.

To be fair: it's expanding — the Bronx only got real coverage recently, and more is planned. But right now, this is the map. The most central, most-Manhattan blocks are swimming in docks; the outer boroughs, where most New Yorkers actually live, get the leftovers.

So what: Citi Bike moves well over 100,000 rides a day — it's basically public transit now. But it's distributed like a luxury amenity. "Bike share for New York" is really bike share for the third of New York that already had the best transit to begin with.

Sources: Citi Bike's public GBFS station feed (live dock counts), 2020 Census borough populations, and NYC's official borough boundary polygons. Happy to share the numbers or break it down by neighborhood if anyone wants. NYC Intel

Source: "This decline comes on the heels of strong post-pandemic gains, which saw the city's overall population swell by 70,000 in 2023 and 163,000 in 2024, mostly driven by an influx of migrants and asylum seekers. As tighter federal and local immigration policies went into effect in 2025, international in-migration plunged by 70% while domestic out-migration escalated, reversing past growth. Overall, New York City lost 114,000 more residents to other U.S. cities than it gained last year. This is an uptick from the 94,000 net loss from domestic moves recorded in 2024"

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My refund is on hold because “we couldn’t process your refund because the name and Social Security number (SSN) or Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN) on my tax return don’t match your records.”

I called the number provided, and the representative asked me to fax some information about three weeks ago. I did, but the status still hasn’t changed. Now, whenever I try calling again, I can’t seem to reach a human at all because the line disconnects due to high call volume.

What am I even supposed to do? I have a full-time job, so I can’t spend all day on the phone trying to speak with someone. I’m also not confident that simply waiting will solve the issue, because the representative I spoke with three weeks ago didn’t seem very confident either. Their solution was basically, “Send a fax saying your name is XYZ to number 123.” That was it, they didn’t ask for proof of identity or anything.

What are my options?

For context: There is a mismatch, because I used my legal name on the tax return but my legal name is truncated on the SS card because it's too long. I paper filled because im a non resident alien and the software I used did not allow me to e file. There are also no account transcript for 2025 on irs.gov, only wage statements.