they would have to first know what they were looking for before they start looking, highway camera would have to catch his face at the angle that would allow comparison and then someone would have to notice similarly of faces, they won't check every car and driver that comes into new york for few days.  if i was him i would park my car in new jersey, commute by bicycle to manhattan, do the did, cycle back, get to the car and go home. maybe buy bicycle with cash and dump it in the river later, but if the parking isn't monitored i would risk bringing my bicycle and taking it home. he did a mistake of leaving the backpack, could've just put a inconspicuous rain cover over it.
White Supremacist