I am only seeing ad in Atlanta, not NY.
I have his profile saved to my "buddy list" and it goes from expired to active kind of regularly.
I seem to recall him tweeting a while back that he was trying escorting - but that may have been some other form of social media. So at the time, it seemed legit.
I have sent short texts expressing interest about getting together several times when it was active and have never gotten response.
Area code for phone number is an Atlanta area code.