Your timing had to be really bad. I was walking through the area at noon and at 3pm yesterday with a monger buddy, who I haven't seen since precovid, and the whole crew was out (obviously except those inside entertaining customers). In fact the pleated skirted girl came running up to me when she saw me. She was wearing a beige/light brown skirt outfit. Her stage name (nom de horizontale ?) is Anna (on her business card she gave me once).
In fact I was walking down 40th rd showing him how that road, that had been closed down to the establishments of ill repute a couple of years ago, was being repopulated. We were standing in front of a nondescript doorway, a girl was bringing a customer inside and then Lucy, that we both "knew" for years, came out, gave us a big hello and chatted with us for a couple of minutes.