Astoria.
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Homes
in Astoria.

Astoria here means four neighborhood areas the city defines: Astoria north with Ditmars and Steinway, Old Astoria with Hallets Point, Astoria central, and Astoria east with north Woodside. Together they hold 77,852 homes in 15,563 buildings. Walk-up apartment buildings hold 49 percent of homes, elevator buildings a fifth, houses for one or two families 17 percent and condominiums 9 percent. Three in five homes are in prewar buildings, a stock that takes in the apartment buildings near Ditmars Boulevard and the row houses. The median home is in a building from 1931 and in a building of 3 floors. Buildings from 2000 or later, among them new ones along the waterfront facing Manhattan, hold one home in six, and buildings of 20 floors or more hold only 1.5 percent.

Two in three homes in Astoria are in walk-ups or houses, so the stair and the front door set the plan instead of a building office. Count the flights between the rug and the street, and say how wide the hall is and whether a turn is tight. At a two family house, tell us which floor the rug is on and which bell to ring. Some homes sit above shops, with a street door beside the storefront that is easy to miss, so describe it. In an elevator building, find out which entrance vendors use and enter it under Building access on the pickup tag.