NEW YORK - On Saturday just past noon, Leonard Shoulders strolled up to a bus stop in the Belmont neighbourhood of the Bronx. A handful of people stood around, waiting for their rides or looking down at their phones - an unremarkable scene.
For about 30 minutes, Shoulders remained in the vault as firefighters tried to pull him out of the hole. Videos of the scene show him eventually being wheeled away on a stretcher by emergency workers. He suffered injuries to his head and arm, White said. The episode brought together two sources of perpetual anxiety for many New York City pedestrians: the general danger posed by malfunctioning infrastructure and the city's robust rat population.
More on this topic As news of Shoulders's plight spread this week, many people on social media found the bizarre and terrifying episode to be an almost poetic representation of the severe hardships posed by the year 2020. Andrew Rudansky, a spokesman for the Department of Buildings, said inspectors found that a portion of the sidewalk had collapsed into a vault below, which was"in a state of disrepair." He said inspectors were trying to figure out who owned the vault to determine who should be legally responsible for its maintenance.
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