“It’s changed so much,” says Jude Tallichet, a sculptor of modest renown who moved to Ridgewood some twenty-five years ago. Tallichet had been among the first wave of artists to find themselves suddenly located in this quiet, corner neighborhood, just outside northern Brooklyn. Rent prices had gotten her “kicked out of Williamsburg,” she says. On a recent weekend, Tallichet could be found standing on a nondescript corner of the steadily gentrifying neighborhood, outside a recently-opened bakery, constantly adjusting a collection of papier-mâché rats, rat-sized. Her muse remained New York, New York.