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Hi Peter,
I'm not sure I understand what you are saying - sorry to be so dense but maybe if you re-phrased it I would get it. I think I'm aware of the Port Authority connection...Tx!
Maybe it's just that I'm not a native speaker. Bottom line, in the same area, near to the bus terminal, we find three DIFFERENT kinds of sex business:
1.) Skid row type: Girls standing on the street waiting for Johns. That was, what Jessica Taylor allegedly did. Not so good lighting conditions, some transvestites also on the road. So, my guess is, the Asian male was there too at some point and due to bad light, the killer noticed too late, got pretty enraged and bashed his head in (none of the usual dismemberment).
2.) Hotels by the hour: Those are frequented by the street girls but also by girls like MBB, who had for example a room at 46th Street in one of those. Difference is, that, despite the physical vicinity, the internet business and the street business are different. The internet escorts meet men, who had contacted them before. Kind of an appointment business.
The street girls however go there with men, they just met on the street. In almost every case, they are the ones, starting communication. That makes street girls an interesting target group for social awkward SKs because they don't have to start the talking, don't need to charm or convince anybody. Entirely different from internet escorts in that aspect.
3.) The club scene: Many years ago, police tried to break down the sex business in the area, especially the clubs. However, the clubs became just "private" and thus, the police lost legal leverage. A lot of those clubs exist still, some new ones came to them, and they are still private. Means, you need an invitation. Which of course, isn't too hard to get. The girls there are regulars. And since it'S the main meeting point of the sado-maso-scene, professionals in this special area of expertise will have contacts to the clubs (the other bigger concentration of those clubs appears to be in Brooklyn). This is irrelevant for three of the GB4, but one of them, I think, it was Megan Waterman, offered domination services as well, so chances are, she had contacts to exactly that scene. Point is, these clubs establish a business layer in itself that doesn't mingle with internet escorts nor street walking girls in the garden variety sex business.