Not to make excuses for this guy's racial assumptions, but WTF would he need a state-issued ID?
AFAIK New York isn't a police state that requires you to have state-issued papers in order to make business transactions. This is a cycling forum, so you should realize better than most of the population that carrying a driver's license isn't mandatory if you're not driving, and likewise nobody is required to get a state ID card if they don't drive. Where exactly do you work so the New Yorkers in the list can avoid doing business there?
"State issued idea?" with malapropisms like that, it's no wonder he assumed that English was a second language for you.