Not only are there new guys putting out music who deserve an audience, there's a lot of legends who put out music too. It just doesn't get to our eyes or ears. I always come across older rappers who apparently put out an album in recent years and I just found out.
New York has needed alternative media to push local hip hop since the early 2010s and it never came around. Hip hop radio and publications in NY have always been aimed at a national audience. Akademiks and Budden are from NJ but don't push local artists. Budden doesn't push upcoming artists in general, so his platform is borderline irrelevant. Gillie & Wallo don't really push Philly artists either.
In the late 2000s, WorldStar was the alt media for NY rappers. Max, French, Tru-Life and even Maino, Uncle Murda, Mazaradi Fox, etc were part of that wave that coincided with DVDs, but WSHH became national-oriented pretty soon and eventually weirdo rappers. They're not putting locals on like that.