The Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs (MOIA) and IDNYC, The New York Public Library, Council Member Annabel Palma, and Assembly member Marcos Crespo celebrated the opening of a new IDNYC pop-up enrollment center at Soundview Library on Tuesday, August 23 at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time.
The pop-up will run from August 23 to September 9, on Tuesday – Thursday from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., and on Friday and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Soundview Library is located on 660 Sound View Ave in the Bronx.
IDNYC is a free form of identification that is accepted for a variety of City services and benefits. 2016 benefits include free one-year memberships to 40 cultural institutions across the City. IDNYC’s benefits also include access to discounts on groceries, medicine, and the card is accepted as the primary form of identification for 12 bank and credit union branches across the City. IDNYC can be used at any public library in New York City. It can be easily integrated with any account at the New York, Brooklyn, and Queens Public Library Systems, and is the only card that is accepted across all three.
This month Mayor Bill de Blasio released the first comprehensive evaluation of IDNYC, New York City’s municipal identification program and the largest program of its kind in the country. The report confirms that IDNYC benefits every New York City resident, especially our most vulnerable communities.
More than half of IDNYC’s 863,464 unique cardholders now use the card as their primary form of identification and over three-quarters of immigrants surveyed reported that the card increases their sense of belonging to the city. 94 percent of survey respondents reported that the process of getting the card was either somewhat or very easy.
Today, all local residents can set up their appointment to apply for their IDNYC card by calling 311 in the language that they speak or online at nyc.gov/idnyc.
