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Crunchiness and containerization offer a retreat into aesthetics, as well as a rubric for manifesting safety and security in an insecure time.

As with so many other unionized industrial professions, the ranks of the stevedores have whittled from their early-20th-century heights, thanks to two major postwar developments: the “containerization” revolution, which optimized and sped up the packing and onloading of goods, and the rapid consolidation of the global shipping industry.

They found that before the introduction of vessel cargo containerization in the 1950s, the baseline volume in the channel was about 60 to 80 decibels — a relatively low hum compared to the cacophony heard today.

Department of Sanitation Commissioner Jessica Tisch offered the comment that showed what was really at stake: If containerization were increased, she asked, where would people park?

And maybe containerization is too much to ask.