NEW YORK (AP) — New Yorkers who obtain the city’s upcoming municipal identification can get free access to some of its signature cultural institutions.
The municipal ID card is set to be unveiled January 1. It will become the nation’s largest program.
The card is aimed at those who do not currently have ID, like the estimated 500,000 illegal immigrants who call the city home.
But to prevent the card from being viewed as something only owned by those immigrants, the city is adding incentives so all New Yorkers will want one.
Mayor Bill de Blasio appeared at the Bronx Zoo on Thursday to announce that the card will provide a free one-year membership to 33 cultural institutions.
They include the zoo, the Brooklyn Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
