Any old bars or restaurants still open that were around when the Westies were still operating? Any places that the old timers still go to?

Completely 100% gentrified with a yuppie and gay population . Zero left of old New York and the Irish are all long gone, cashed out on selling their old walk ups and moved out to the suburbs...

However, Rudy's is still there on 9th Ave. Even the old Blarney Rock on 47th was recently closed and they are gutting it out and putting in god knows what

Hells kitchen is now clinton. That hood is dead and gone.

There is no old dive bars still around?

It's mostly hipster craft beer hangouts, gay bars, and cheesy "chainish" type places now. There's a few Dive bars still holding out, but Hell's Kitchen is a perfect example of the changing demographics of NYC. Some of the old dive bars that are still around are like I mentioned before Rudy's, Smith's, Dave's Tavern, and the Bikini bar (called Best Bar NYC now) underneath the Port Authority are all still around...

This page on Forgotten-NY.com covers it. Rudy's and the Landmark Tavern. That's it:

http://forgotten-ny.com/2011/04/chelsea-clinton-manhattan/

Buddy leahea and jimmy coonan and Dom cefalu still have marine contracting construction company...that's about the closest you can get to anything resembling the westies in 2016

Are those dive strip bars still open on west side highway?

They're long gone and replaced by high end gentlemans clubs like the Hustler Club