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COPYRIGHT 2001 Daily News
Byline: Eric Herman
May 21--Manhattan may be an island, but its housing costs have a ripple effect.
Take Astoria, for example. For the past several years, the historically Greek and Italian middle-class neighborhood in Queens has seen an influx of Manhattanites -- from gym-bag-toting yuppies to kids with pierced eyebrows -- who have come in search of cheaper housing.
Now, Astoria's housing market is a kind of echo of Manhattan's -- after months of rising, its rents and real estate prices have peaked, or are at least in a holding pattern, according to real estate brokers. At...
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