NYC boosts number of appointment slots for residential ID card after surge in demand
New York City is releasing hundreds of additional appointments for residents wanting to sign up for a municipal ID card after months of complaints thatthat 7,100 appointments will open up every Friday afternoon, up from the 6,800 the agency used to release. City officials are also looking to open a new IDNYC enrollment center in the Bronx, afterOnly one enrollment center remains in the Bronx, which had as many as 10 locations in 2017.
“Generally there’s still appointments left,” DSS Commissioner Molly Wasow Park told the City Council. “Whether it's a couple of dozen or a couple of hundred.”surged amid new arrivals who rely on the identification cards to show police or employers and enter their children’s school buildings.
On Monday, members of the City Council also offered up their offices to host additional pop-up enrollment sites for the program.
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