{"id":224857,"date":"2026-05-08T18:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T18:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/224857\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T18:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T18:30:07","slug":"news-12-bronx-majority-of-new-yorkers-now-hold-real-ids-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/224857\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Majority Of New Yorkers Now Hold Real Ids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">It has been one year since the federal government began requiring REAL IDs for domestic flights, and over half of eligible New Yorkers have obtained one. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">More than 8.6 million people in the state have a REAL ID, says the Department of Motor Vehicles.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Four million Enhanced Licenses and almost four million REAL ID licenses have been issued. Both comply with the federal REAL ID Act.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">You can still visit a DMV with the right paperwork to get your REAL ID. A passport can also stand in as your REAL ID.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It has been one year since the federal government began requiring REAL IDs for domestic flights, and over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224833,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-224857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}