If one story perfectly symbolizes New York City’s decline into moonbattery under leftist misrule, this could be it.

[Leonard] Shoulders was waiting for a bus on 3rd Avenue in the Bronx on Saturday across from Saint Barnabas Hospital at the moment the sidewalk caved in.

According to his mother, Cindy White,

“He was just standing and the sidewalk just — It was like a suction. Like a sinkhole. He just went down.”

He fell almost a dozen feet, concrete debris raining down on his head. He broke and arm and a leg. Then came the horror.

“He was like, ‘Ma, the rats down there were ridiculous.’ He was like, ‘they were like so big.’ He was scared to yell out because he thought they were gonna go in his mouth,” she said.

Comrade Bill de Blasio welcomes you to New York.

On a tip from Bluto.