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By Herbert Lash NEW YORK (Reuters) – The Dutch, it is said, bought Manhattan Island in 1626 from its native American inhabitants for about $24 in trade goods. Half a millennium later, that sum wouldn’t buy a square foot of office space in New York City’s trendiest real estate market, the area below 34th Street known as Midtown South. Fueled by an influx of workers from the Internet economy and