At one Bronx library, dozens daily are applying for city-issued identification cards in order to work locally after crossing the U.S. border 2,000 miles away.
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Posted inDepartment of Correction, Homelessness, IDNYC, Jails, Rikers Island
Recently Jailed New Yorkers Struggle When Dumped on Street With No ID
Leaving Rikers Island, many former detainees can’t rent apartments or get jobs — because the city lost their ID.
Posted inHealth
IDNYC Drug Discounts Cancelled for Addictive Opioid Medications
Sign up for “THE CITY Scoop,” our daily newsletter where we send you stories like this first thing in the morning. The free discount prescription drug benefit attached to the city’s IDNYC cards no longer covers many common opioid medications, under a change approved by a city panel this week. The measure to remove the […]
Posted inGovernment
City’s IDNYC Smart Card Chip Plan Slammed as Security Risk
Sign up for “THE CITY Scoop,” our daily newsletter where we send you stories like this first thing in the morning. Pushback against adding a banking chip to new IDNYC cards intensified Thursday, with a demand from immigration, civil liberties and consumer groups to scrap the effort and introduction of a City Council bill to […]