Spot-on, Ivy (as usual ).

As a New Yorker, I'll just add a bit of geography to the mix. When the market was actually on Fulton Street in Lower Manhattan, I don't really recall many prostitutes in the area. But like Ivy said, the market moved up to the Bronx some years ago, after Giuliani threw the wiseguys out.

When the market moved to the Bronx, they chose Hunts Point as a location, which has always been infested with the most low-rent hookers you've ever seen. And I can't imagine those skeevy crackheads even having pimps, let alone mob connections.