I wouldn't say New York has no interest in Philly in 1999 caprio got gambino and Genovese to kill ligambi, mazzone and borgesi in exchange for allowing New York to put there own poker machines in Philly. The 2010 meeting with ligambi scoops and the leadership of the gambino family alphonese truccherio John gambino etc shows New York still has interest. The whole meeting was about luchese and DeCavancte members moving in on Philly rackets. You also have scarfo junior according to the Feds and there informers scarfo had the backing of certain members of three of the five family's in New York in his attempt to retake the Philly mob.

But it's not the 80s either New York is not going to be sending down guys to kill merlino if he annoys them the commission from the 80s is dead there is no one to put a membership cap or choose the leaders the last known commission meeting was in 2000 and that's if you even consider that a commission meeting the Colombos were not there and most family's sent a high ranking member not there official leader. There might have been other meetings similar to this in recent times we don't know about but it's not anything like it was and I highly doubt Philly was what they were discussing they have bigger problems to deal with in New York.

New York does still have some influence especially with the North Jeresy crew with scoops and fazzini where they come across the five family's a lot but it is not like it was