NYC seeks emergency snow shovelers for blizzard, requires IDs not needed to vote

New York City connected Saturday enactment retired a telephone for exigency snowfall shovelers up of a almighty nor'easter weaponry cyclone, requiring workers to taxable aggregate forms of recognition — contrasting the city's predetermination argumentation for astir voters.

For the archetypal clip successful astir a decade, a blizzard informing was issued for New York City, with expected snowfall totaling 10 to 18 inches and upwind gusts up to 55 mph.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul declared a State of Emergency for New York City, and Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced outreach teams person been mobilized.

The New York City Department of Sanitation (DSNY) announced Saturday it is recruiting temporary, per diem shovelers to region snowfall and crystal from nationalist areas, including autobus stops, crosswalks, occurrence hydrants and measurement streets.

A idiosyncratic walks down a residential thoroughfare arsenic snowfall falls successful the Brooklyn borough of New York City. (Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images)

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While wage is generous, starting astatine $19.14 per hr and expanding to $28.71 per hr aft the archetypal 40 hours worked successful a week, workers indispensable conscionable a fig of requirements to beryllium eligible.

Shovelers indispensable beryllium astatine slightest 18 years old, capable to execute dense carnal labour and eligible to enactment successful the U.S., according to the department.

They indispensable besides bring 2 tiny 1.5-inch quadrate photos, 2 archetypal forms of ID and copies, on with a Social Security paper for registration, officials said.

Snow successful Prospect Park successful Brooklyn, N.Y.  (Theodore Parisienne/New York Daily News/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

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Unlike the strict exigency idiosyncratic guidelines, the New York City Board of Elections does not necessitate astir registered voters to bring an ID.

First-time voters are lone required to bring 1 of 3 documents including: driver’s licence number, non-driver ID fig oregon the past 4 digits of a Social Security number.

Those who did not supply ID erstwhile registering to ballot are besides capable to ballot by affidavit ballot.

A antheral sits connected a seat successful Central Park arsenic snowfall falls successful New York City. (Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images)

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The DSNY did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital's petition for comment.

FOX Weather's Hayley Vawter, Kieran Sullivan and Kevin Fitzgerald contributed to this report.