Have not been around for 15 years but affirmative, there are some street guys around, not like 30 years ago,
However, Russians and Chinese own like all the businesses on 86th Street, 18th Ave is alive last I heard........
I owned a few places on 86th both in Bay Ridge and Bath Beach from 1975 to 1990, then came the murder, death, betrayal and lies.
Then and only then I jetted, after 80 months downtime from the Eastern District of NY. @ Various BOP facilities.