New City Municipal IDs to Include Free Zoo Admissions, More

New Yorkers looking to get a municipal identification card will also get free memberships to 33 city cultural institutions.

Mayor Bill de Blasio says the incentive will be good for one year.

It will also give carriers access to special events and discounts to museum shops.

The IDs were designed for the city’s 500,000 undocumented immigrants.

New York is not the only city to offer freebies to those who get the municipal IDs.

San Francisco offers discounts at the city’s golf courses, museums and participating restaurants.

In New Haven, ID cards are set to be reloadable for downtown parking and shopping.

The city’s new municipal ID program is scheduled to launch in January 2015.

List of Participating Institutions

Bronx

Bronx County Historical Society

Bronx Museum of the Arts

New York Botanical Garden

Wave Hill

Wildlife Conservation Society (includes Bronx Zoo, New York Aquarium, Central Park Zoo, Queens Zoo, and Prospect Park Zoo)

Brooklyn

Brooklyn Academy of Music

Brooklyn Botanic Garden

Brooklyn Children’s Museum

Brooklyn Museum

Manhattan

American Museum of Natural History

Carnegie Hall

New York City Ballet

El Museo del Barrio

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc.

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Museum of Jewish Heritage

Museum of the City of New York

New York City Center

Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival

Studio Museum in Harlem

Queens

Flushing Town Hall

Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning

Museum of the Moving Image

New York Hall of Science

MoMA PS1

Queens Botanical Garden

Queens Museum

Queens Theatre

Staten Island

Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden

Staten Island Children’s Museum

Staten Island Historical Society

Staten Island Museum

Staten Island Zoological Society

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