Sentences with phrase «municipal identification card»

With its passage, the city is now creating what will be the country's largest municipal identification card system.

«Over one million New Yorkers have helped make IDNYC the largest and most successful municipal identification card program in the nation.

She outlined the efforts of the City Council in the last year alone on the issue: passing legislation to stop cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and creating municipal identification cards among the highest - profile pieces of legislation passed on the issue.

The mayor also said he would issue municipal identification cards for nearly 500,000 undocumented New Yorkers during 2014.

The new IDNYC municipal identification card has been popular and comes with a year's free membership to dozens of cultural institutions, and $ 23 million was added to the art education budget for public schools last year after an audit by Comptroller Scott Stringer showed major disparities.

County Sen. Greg Ball, the chairman of the Senate Veterans, Homeland Security and Military Affairs Committee, against a New York City municipal identification card — a proposal that is backed by Mayor Bill de Blasio.

Mayor Bill de Blasio today rolled out the city's new municipal identification cards at the large library, where dozens of people lined up the get the form of I.D. that will be available to undocumented immigrants — as well as the homeless, the elderly, transgender people, and any other New Yorkers that might want to access some of the perks that come with signing up.

Mark - Viverito, on the other hand, has been one of the most outspoken supporters of a proposal to grant municipal identification cards to immigrants in New York City, which would allow them to access a number of city services, regardless of their immigration status.

«Under Mayor de Blasio, the New York City Council is voting to give municipal identification cards to hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants,» one talking point reads.

Just in time for Mayor Bill de Blasio's speech touting his first 100 days in office, the City Council plans to introduce a bill this week to allow municipal identification cards, multiple sources told Capital.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork / AP)-- New York City lawmakers are proposing a bill that would provide city residents living in all five boroughs with municipal identification cards.

De Blasio — who was introduced by former Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia's granddaughter, Katherine — also said municipal identification cards will be available to all residents this year regardless of their immigration status, «so that no daughter or son of our city goes without bank accounts, leases, library cards, simply because they lack identification.»

NYC Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito is taking one of the Council's major initiatives on the road with a trip to Ohio to meet with legislators and community groups looking to create their own version of the city's municipal identification card program.

NEW YORK — Mayor Bill de Blasio signed a law Thursday that paves the way for New York City to create municipal identification cards.

As mayor, Lhota plans to issue municipal identification cards.

«The people of The Bronx can now represent their borough and their city with great pride by signing up for the new IDNYC municipal identification card, which launches today.

In a move designed to help immigrants, the state is telling New York - chartered banks that the city municipal identification card is an acceptable form of verification for those looking to open bank accounts.

Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. signs up for his own «IDNYC» municipal identification card at the Bronx Library Center at its launch on Monday, January 12, 2015

The Council has funded attorneys for unaccompanied minor immigrants who have flooded New York City's federal courts, passed the municipal identification card program dubbed IDNYC, and has kicked Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers off of Rikers Island, where they had frequently issued detainer orders for undocumented immigrants who had served time accused of nonviolent crimes.

Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito led a delegation of her fellow council members in signing up for the new IDNYC program — and argued that the application site's problems are a positive, not negative, portent for the municipal identification card program.

Council members said they had learned from a protracted court fight on Staten Island over the release of personal information related to the municipal identification card program; the city prevailed in State Supreme Court, although the decision has been appealed.

And like Mayor Bill de Blasio, she urged undocumented immigrants to continue applying for the city's municipal identification card, a stance Mark - Viverito has shied away from.

He has also expanded paid sick leave and the living wage law, altered the policy for making marijuana possession arrests and laid the groundwork for a municipal identification card designed to serve undocumented immigrants.

She also noted that the city created IDNYC, a municipal identification card available to all New Yorkers regardless of immigration status and is accepted by the NYPD as valid identification.

City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito is taking one of the Council's major initiatives on the road with a trip to Ohio to meet with legislators and community groups looking to create their own version of New York City's municipal identification card program.

Instead, State Senator Adriano Espaillat visited the IDNYC Northern Manhattan Center on West 135th Street earlier this month to get carded — specifically, to apply for his municipal identification card, commonly known as the IDNYC card.

Municipal identification cards — I tried to get that through the previous administration and it really would not have happened without this mayor.»

During an «Immigrant Heritage Breakfast» at Gracie Mansion this morning, Mayor Bill de Blasio discussed his plan to issue municipal identification cards.

When asked directly whether she supports New York City's recent passage of a municipal identification card program, which Mark - Viverito and de Blasio made a joint priority earlier this year, Hochul simply said she thinks municipalities should individually handle that issue.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork / AP)-- Mayor Bill de Blasio on Thursday signed into law a plan to offer a municipal identification card to residents regardless of their immigration status.

Cardholders of the city's municipal identification card, known as IDNYC, will enjoy yet another full year in 2016 of incentives, benefits and free one - year memberships to a host of cultural organizations.

More recently, she joined Castorino in trying to prevent the city from purging records of IDNYC members, those holding the city's municipal identification card, a program launched under de Blasio that has targeted all New Yorkers, including undocumented immigrants.

«As a national model, we must maintain our upward momentum to end gender and racial inequality through public policy that celebrates our diversity,» Council Member Cumbo said at the rally, pointing to other city and state efforts like the municipal identification card program and a higher minimum wage.

Spring Bank accepts New York City's municipal identification card, though you might need to provide another form of identification to qualify for some loans.

Asked what would be the paradigmatic de Blasio cultural initiative on that scale, Finkelpearl said the IDNYC program, which created a municipal identification card for all city residents who wanted one, regardless of citizenship status, and permitted holders free membership at several city arts institutions.