Pilgrims from the UK won't need to travel quite so far now, thanks to the soon-to-open London branch, which will be on Stoke Newington's Church Street.
The Brooklyn Heights branch, which will be rebuilt in the same spot, will have to close during the two or three years of construction, and residents have yet to be told where there will be an alternative place to find books and use computers.
That should help cut queues in other branches, which will be freed to concentrate on the most profitable clients.
The first two branches, which will be open seven days a week, are scheduled to open in the spring in Bloomfield and Fairfield, the company said in a news release.
A stock market flotation of the branches, which will be rebranded TSB on the high street by September, is expected next year.
The shadow board of the branch network, which will be known as Williams & Glyn's, does not contain any women although Davies has said this will be addressed.
For those who can, there's good news: the cost of first-class train tickets is going down on many branches this year, which will be welcome by the more than a quarter of MPs who charged first-class travel to the taxpayer in the past 12 months.
Now, people will have to walk 30 minutes to get to a branch of Itaú, which will be a big problem for the elderly.
In honour of its role in inspiring the books and the upcoming film, Selfridges have created a temporary Paddington Curiosity Shop in the Oxford Street branch, all profits from which will be donated to the NSPCC.
A month after launch, TVtrip has secured another round of financing from Benchmark's European Branch, Balderton, and Partech, which will be announced tomorrow.
SVB opened a full-blown commercial branch in London in June, which will be the European hub in its strategy to help companies reach global markets, and also plans to lend $100m to technology companies in Ireland over five years.
