Mayor de Blasio – it is a pleasure to welcome you once again to United Nations Headquarters. 

Today we join hands with our great host city for a very special initiative: by hosting a pop-up registration site for New York City’s new municipal identification card.

It is called idNYC, it is free, and soon I will have my very own idNYC. After more than eight years of calling New York home, I will finally be able to say that I am a New Yorker!

Mrs. Ban tells me that she wants an idNYC too! She must have heard that it can give you free one-year membership at many of the City's museums, zoos, concert halls, and gardens.

This is a great initiative. It is very practical and will benefit many young people and the diplomatic community living in New York in particular. I hope that our United Nations staff who need ID will register as I have just done.  I wish this scheme great success!

Thank you.