I've interviewed at places where the hiring manager would give your name to the front desk, and the front desk would ask for ID when you showed up and signed in. This never struck me as weird, maybe because the front desk checking your ID was standard practice in NYC by that point.
That's likely a building security practice, and the hiring manager never sees your id. That's a bit different from the hiring manager themselves asking for it before even being willing to talk to you. And building security is likely to let you through with a convincing story if you know what name they're looking for, after noting the name on your id for reference in case there's a problem.
At any rate, the article is right, this probably causes problems for some candidates (especially, but not exclusively, trans people). But if it's common practice in NYC it's likely most local candidates are used to navigating it. That's less likely elsewhere.
It's part of standard building security in numerous large cities.
There were a number of incidents in which attackers gained access to office towers with deadly effect. One that comes to mind is the 101 California shooting in San Francisco in 1993.
