But you know the arc of New York City life: a working neighborhood is stable for decades, then gets disrupted (in this case by the demise of the Red Hook port, once the busiest in the world) and goes into decline, only to become a magnet for creative types — until they themselves are priced out by the gentrifiers who were attracted to the grit of the place (until they succeed in cleaning it up just enough, turning an empty warehouse into a Fairway or a restaurant with $14 cocktails, hiking the rents, and finding another place to repeat the cycle).