New York, 1998 — not the “Seinfeld/Friends” version.

The last video stores cling to life. The last pay phones stand as landmarks in the shadows of The World Trade Center. It’s still a “Warriors” city, even though Giuliani still has the credibility to claim it isn’t. And the Russian mob is totally a thing, no matter what he says.

The Mets are in the playoff hunt. But Left Coaster Hank Thompson, who used to play a little ball himself, is pulling hard for his Giants.

Welcome to the world of “Caught Stealing,” as remembered and scripted by Charlie Huston (TV’s “Powers,” “All Signs of Death”) and recreated by director Darren Aronofsky, taking his shot at a “White Boy Rick”( which he produced), rather than another “The Whale,” “Black Swan” or “Pi.”

Austin Butler “Elvis”) is our leading man, a young bartender at Pauls (sic) Bar, a nearly-all-night watering hole in the lower Lower East Side, but someone who once had a Big League career dangling in front of him.

His Momma (a hilarious one-scene cameo by an Oscar winner) named him for a country music star of the distant past — Hank Thompson. The paramedic Yvonne (Zoë Kravitz) is ready to call him “boyfriend,” even if he’s happy to join the lingering barflies for one more shot at “last call.”

Yvonne’s looking for “a guy who faces” his problems. Because “If you away from what you’re afraid of, then it owns you.” Hank’s nightmares tell us what he’s afraid of and what he’s not facing, and that alcohol’s a part of that.

And then his disreputable, mohawked punk Brit neighbor (gonzo ex-Doctor Who Matt Smith) leaves him in charge of caring for his cat whilst he flies home to his “just had a stroke” Dad. Hank’s world is about to turn upside down, and not just because Bud the cat’s “a biter.”

Heedlessly violent Russian mobsters (Yuri Kolokolnikov, Nikita Kukushkin) turn up and beat him so badly he loses a kidney.

The callous cop (Regina King) who investigates the assault accuses him of “being mixed up in” “something” and warns him about these Hasidic siblings (Liev Schreiber and Vincent D’Onofrio) who are even worse “monsters.”

Hank has the wherewithal to blurt out “I don’t know anything” maybe once to everybody who is on his case. As the bodies and complications pile up, he’s got to face his problems, those his wanker-neighbor dropped on him and try to limit the “collateral damage” that all this mayhem creates.

“Caught Stealing” is an action comedy that’s equal parts bleak and hilarious. Our hero’s journey is to escape victimhood and own his past and accept the impossibility of justice from Giuliani’s New York and NYPD and the Russians and the Ultra-Orthodox, who love their “bubbe” (Carol Kane) but kill without compunction.

Aronofsky’s set-piece chases and brawls are funny and frustrating, as Hank’s trap — the one he was dropped into by that drug dealing 40ish punk limey — seems inescapable. His only solace might be that pennant race that his Mom updates him on whenever he checks in, keeping her in the dark the whole time.

The set-ups are foreshadowed and perfectly executed. He played ball. Somebody give him a bat. The Russians stole his Giants’ hat? Wait’ll they chase him into Shea Stadium. He loves his momma? Good thing to bring up when Lipa (Schreiber) and Shmully (D’Onofrio) catch up to him.

Butler’s job is to credibly blurt “I can HANDLE it,” when “No, you can’t” is closer to the truth. He must take a beating and suggest just enough smarts to get Hank through all this, and he handles that with a dopey (Giants fan, after all) elan. Smith, the Russians, King, Bad Bunny (as a Puerto Rican mobster), D’Onofrio and Schneider, Kane and an unrecognizable Griffin Dunne, playing the aged ex-hippy drunk Paul, owner of “Pauls Bar,” score the laughs.

Dunne’s presence in all this suggests the homage that Aronofsky wanted to mimic, Dunne’s hilarious New York in the ’80s all-nighter, “After Hours.”

The characters may be tropes and “types,” but they’re funny. The mid-gentrification milieu of Alphabet City gives the picture grit. And Butler is our Everyoutsider, a New Yorker for 11 years still unable to shake his past, barely able to survive everything Gotham has to throw at him

Aronofsky ensures that Butler and his merry band of miscreant castmates make “Caught Stealing” a frenetic and fun farewell to summer, if a very bloody one.

But seriously, f— the Giants.

Rating: R, graphic violence, drug abuse, nudity, profanity

Cast: Austin Butler, Regina King, Zoë Kravitz, Matt Smith, Griffin Dunne, Bad Bunny, Yuri Kolokolnikov, Nikita Kukushkin, Carol Kane, Vincent D’Onofrio and Liev Schreiber

Credits: Directed by Darren Aronofsky, scripted by Charlie Huston, based on his novel. A Sony/Columbia release.

Running time: 1:47