NYC begins a Municipal ID program
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It seems no one has yet had the courage to tell advocates for veterans "the reason we have not created a way to designate veteran status on the Municipal ID is that if they have what is required to prove their Veteran status they can likely achieve alternate ID.
http://gothamgazette.com/index.php/government/5508-military-veteran-designation-on-municipal-ids-delayed -
I just checked next available appointments in Brooklyn. We're talking June.
Maybe time to throw in a few more resources?
My main incentive for getting this card is to get free memberships at so many different cultural institutions. I know these freebies are only good the first year. But is the first year 2015, or the first year that the cardholder holds the card?
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So you absolutely have to have an appointment? I agree with the comment above ^^ I'd want to take full advantage of the freebies and not have to wait till june or july etc..
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This is definitely completely legible and usable.
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@mamacita, I am really not sure. I stopped by the library at Grand Army Plaza on Saturday, and there was a long line and a sign that announced that there were no more walk-in appointments for that day. Which leads me to believe that they do take walk-ins, at least to a certain degree. But when I went online it just said to make an appointment. Confused.
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No more walk-ins.The card is valid for a year from from when you first use it, not the start of the calendar year.
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If the majority of the cards are secured by middle class folks who seek museum discounts, the cost saving goals discussed above will not be achieved.
As a result, the city should create a system to prioritze getting ID to persons most likely to cost the city money should they remain without ID.
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... if you can get it...
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Yup. Today's NYT:"As recently as Thursday, the earliest appointment available anywhere in the city was on May 18. On Friday, though, the city added 70,000 new appointment slots before June 30, including some as early as Feb. 9.Critics have likened the program’s bumpy start to the fraught rollout of the health-insurance exchange website created under the Affordable Care Act, a comparison that city officials, including Mr. de Blasio, a Democrat, have rebutted.Still, the problems have frustrated many prospective applicants and even some of the city’s collaborators in the effort."
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And, caused the city to desperately seek additional staff to process all of the applicants:
https://a127-jobs.nyc.gov/jobsearch.html?keyword=Enrollment
(The jobs are listed under HRA after you click the above) -
I still say if the city wanted lines and frustration they really did the right thing in having HRA handle the situation. If they didn't want this outcome, what in the heck were they thinking?
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While HRA does excel at not being prepared for the number of people who want its services, this may actually be a case under estimating demand.
I agree, one can't actually claim "surprise" with regard to the number people who seek food stamps and other forms of assistance for their families. Such demand is not new. -
One month later, the city is still struggling to meet demand, and opens new enrollment center.
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One month later, the city is still struggling to meet demand, and opens new enrollment center.
I was able to get an April 7th appointment in Manhattan. Had to book it in early February. -
I kinda gave up.
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I would love to know what portion of the IDs that have so far been issued, were actually issued to persons who needed a solid ID.
My fear is that many of the appointments are being secured by middle class folks who seek the ID as result of its museum discounts, as opposed to folks who need an ID to provide their identity. -
Here is a more than I ever wanted to know about the program's achievements and shortcomings to date: http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20150402/BLOGS04/150409975
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I applied for my ID last week. Most of the people around me at the Water Street location had foreign documents with them and they were clearly not Russian oligarchs.
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I suspect they were not wealthy Chinese oligarchs either. They have other ways of getting solid ID.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelcole/2014/05/13/wealthy-chinese-accounted-for-80-of-u-s-investor-visas-in-2013/
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The city has finally caught up with demand for the ID: One can now get an appointment within hours or days. They have created one reservation system for all of the locations.
https://idnyc.appointment-plus.com
Hopefully they will not fall behind again, and will be able to do more outreach to populations that cost the city lots of $ when they do not have ID.
If we can blame the mayor, I suspect Bloomberg would have fixed this much sooner and allotted far more resources.
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Just made my appointment. Its free and offers free membership to some great institutions for all of 2015, so why not?
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Done with my appointment. I had an 11:20 AM appointment, but wasn't out of there until 12:40 PM, so be warned that you're not necessarily in for a brief stay. Also, a few of the staff members seem to be very rude, which, while amusing to witness, was a sad display of customer service.
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I found it odd that they don't issue them on site; They mail it to you 4-6 weeks later.
Mine should arrive in a few weeks.
Doesn't the DMV give you ID the same day? -
I agree. They certainly have the capability to do so.I'm not sure what the DMV does generally. I know that, for drivers licenses at least, when I was turning in my out of state license for a NY license, they gave me a paper license until my permanent, plastic license came in the mail a few weeks later.
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I think that it has to do with the verification of identity and documents. They scan all the documentation you submit, and then they have to do a back-end processing to make sure that tourists from Florida aren't trying to get the ID for their trips to the Bronx Zoo and the Museum of Natural History.
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That makes sense. And most of the people in line with me didn't seem to be citizens as they had foreign passports, which makes identity verification even tougher. Still, for folks like me with a NYS ID (I'm only getting the IDNYC for the free memberships that come with it), I hope the process is much shorter!
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I definitely got my ID within a week of going to the appointment (I applied with a NY state ID).
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There is hope, then (not holding my breath, though)!
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Starting Monday parents must now go in person with a calid ID to be enrolled in the online portal. Through this parents can see state test scores, reports, attendance, etc.
until this past January parents simply needed their child's ID number and could log in. Now they need to come in with an ID to create an account. Terrible idea that will decrease parental usage. But definitely makes me glad these IDs exist.
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