The saga of whether Greece will get booted from the eurozone is providing one of the market’s greatest cliff-hangers in quite some time. Yet it’s a drama many residents of Astoria, Queens, feel they can easily afford to miss.

“Is Greece better off without the euro? How should I know? Is it a big deal the banks there are closed? Beats me,” said a gentlemen who said his name was Anthony when approached by a Crain’s reporter outside Lefkos Pirgos, a café that took care of Astoria’s superstrong coffee and baklava needs for 40 delicious years until closing in April.

A highly unscientific survey of people passing by the café revealed that five were in favor of Greece leaving the euro and four were against it. None thought the bank closings portended anything good, but none claimed to know anyone affected. One person who approached the reporter said he had no opinion on the matter but wanted to make sure no illegal soliciting was going on.

If the denizens of Astoria, the heart of Hellenic culture in a borough where 40,000 people claim Greek ancestry seemed a little blasé about Greece’s crisis--or just didn’t want to talk about it--they could take comfort in the fact that U.S. equity investors seem curiously unmoved as well.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell by 2%, which is certainly a significant move but one the market has seen plenty of times before. For instance, the Dow industrials fell by 1.9% back on January 5. The yield on the benchmark U.S. 10-year bond fell by its most since last October, as worried investors snapped up ultrasafe securities, but then again the bonds have yielded considerably less at various points this year. And the euro, which might be expected to weaken amid all the turmoil on the continent, actually strengthened against the U.S. dollar.

Greece’s economic problems began five years ago and have already taken a considerable toll on the nation. Many young people have fled the country, and in 2013, exactly 1,526 Greeks obtained permanent-resident status (that is to say, green cards) in the U.S., according to the Department of Homeland Security. That represented a 50% increase from 2010 levels and, of course, doesn’t include people who moved here without jumping through all the hoops needed to get a green card.

But the latest iteration of Greece’s long economic crisis doesn’t appear to have unleashed a fresh wave of migration, according to a person who answered the phone at Immigration Advocacy Services, an Astoria-based legal nonprofit.

Undeterred by his inability to gain meaningful insight into complex economic and political machinations a world away from people on the street, the Crain’s reporter headed into Gus Skoufis & Co., an accounting firm across the street from the former Lefkos Pirgos.

Has the fact that Greece’s banks are closed today and stand to be closed this week caused any distress? “You’re the second reporter to ask us that question today,” said one person in the shop. “I think the first one was from a TV station. Do you know her?” An employee behind the reception desk cheerfully offered: “We’re busy.”