There are smartphone applications that allow adults to locate the city's sleazy "room salon" bars and apps for couples to track each other's whereabouts.
Until five years ago, the block -- along Main Street, diagonally across from Sears and near North Broadway -- was a bustling area of delicatessens, nail salons, bars and other shops.
Lining the "main streets" are butchers, hair salons, bars, charcoal-sellers, and food vendors clouded in smoke as they char slabs of meat.
On the main deck is a salon and bar, and at the stern a hot tub.
(In fact, it was a hair salon). The bar has an old New York feel, too, but it is not entirely convincing.
One of them is Broad Channel, a narrow island in Jamaica Bay with cottages on stilts and a quaint business district that has a nail salon, a bar, a pizzeria, a deli and little else.
Deals are delivered based on a user's preferences and their proximity to various retail locations in such categories as restaurants, food and grocery, spa and salon services, bar and club, health and fitness, and women's and men's clothing.
The series, which follows the lives of a group of spray-tanned young men and women as they flit between beauty salon, wine bar and nightclub, returns to our screens for a third series next weekend, having picked up a Bafta award and spawned a succession of imitators.
In addition to several large Belle Epoque salons and bar, there are 20 rooms with lively wallpapers and flowered carpets, all with telephones and private baths.
