NYC I.D.'s geared to undocumented immigrants offer free memberships to cultural institutions New York City is debuting new government ID cards that will do more for residents than offer a form of I.
Melissa Mark-Viverito has boosted a flagship program, which seeks to provide representation and identification to undocumented people, and she has helped to foster the NYC municipal ID program.
The New York City Council on Thursday approved the use of municipal identification cards for undocumented immigrants in a substantial victory for city immigrant rights groups. The program will extend city services to an estimated 500,000 immigrants, regardless of citizenship status, thereby expanding access to services for undocumented immigrants.
The Spanish-language rappers that make up the duo Calle 13 -- frontman René Pérez Joglar and his brother Eduardo Cabra -- will be honored in New York City Thursday for their social activism and commentary on injustice, inequality and Puerto Rican issues, BuzzFeed reported.
Stop-and-frisk is the long endured practice whereby police officers in New York City have stopped and questioned hundreds of thousands of pedestrians, particularly African-Americans and Latinos;The program functions as sanctioned racial profiling and permitted discrimination.
According to a poll released on Friday by Quinnipiac University, most New Yorkers agree that former New York City mayor Mike Bloomberg’s 12 years in office were “mainly a success,” despite the Inauguration Day barbs he received that most agree were inappropriate.
With Bill de Blasio taking the reins as New York City’s new mayor, a recent poll shows that the majority of New Yorkers are satisfied with the job he’s been doing since his inauguration and also feel optimistic about his future work in office.
For the first time in a decade, New York's mayor will not be present in the city's biggest event. The New Year's Eve party will be missing our new Mayor Bill de Blasio tonight due to a double booking. The Mayor-elect will actually be busy being sworned into office at a private ceremony at 12:01 a.m. at his Brooklyn home.
