‘NYC is literally falling apart’
The Big Apple’s got some major “wormholes.”
Veteran social media superstar Casey Neistat has New Yorkers quaking in their boots after sharing jaw-dropping video of a city sidewalk crumbling underfoot like something out of a disaster movie.
In the groundbreaking footage, captioned “gotta watch out on New York City sidewalks,” Neistat can be seen strolling along the pavement when he happens upon a crack in the cement.
The influencer — he has 12.6 million subscribers on YouTube and nearly 1 million followers on TikTok — dips an exploratory toe into the sidewalk crevice, whereupon the crater caves in like an “Indiana Jones” booby trap, unveiling a capacious chasm.
More specifically, the phenomenon is officially what would be considered a “a cave-in” — a k a “collapse in the pavement into a deep empty space without a solid bottom” (not to be confused with a pothole, which is a shallow hole or crack in the sidewalk), per NYC 311.
Neistat, 42, then pokes his camera into the cavern, revealing that it goes down several feet and even contains pipes, as if he found a secret entrance to the kingdom of Gotham’s infamous “mole people.”
The Post has reached out to NYC Department of Transportation officials, who are responsible for the city’s infrastructure, for comment about the veracity of this viral sensation, which has scared up over 17 million views in less than 24 hours.
Meanwhile, TikTokers were quick to take potshots at the gaping hole in the sidewalk, with many viewers quipping that Neistat had found “Old York.”
“You could probably rent that out for 600 bucks,” joked another in reference to the Big Apple’s sky-high real estate prices.
Another commenter snarked, “Don’t let NYC land lords see this. They’ll be advertising a 1 bed studio with a skylight for $3K/mo.”
Some Samaritans suggested that Neistat should’ve purposefully fallen into the hole — and then sued New York City.
“Bro out here wasting injury lawsuits,” scoffed one commenter, while another exclaimed, “I would have fell in there and sued for a trillion.”
Others saw the porous pavement as a symptom of urban decay.
“New York City is literally falling apart and no one is doing anything about it,” lamented pundit Ian Miles Cheong on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, along with a repost of the vid that has since amassed over 845,000 views.
Unfortunately, NYC’s Swiss cheese sidewalks are not a new phenomenon with the metropolis receiving 35 reports of cave-ins since 2019.
Last month, freaky footage showed a hole in a Manhattan sidewalk that had grown large enough that New Yorkers could look down and see subway trains running right underneath their feet.
Unfortunately, stepping on one of these cracks could very well break someone’s back.
In 2020, a 33-year-old man barely escaped serious injury when a sinkhole opened up on a Bronx sidewalk, causing him to plunge 15 feet, police said.
Gothamites can report cave-ins by going to the 311 page, and are instructed by the agency to call 911 if it’s an unprotected street opening that could cause injury or death.
If the cave-in is next to a catch basin, commonly referred to as storm drains or sewer grates, New Yorkers should file the report on the Catch Basin Complaint page, while any cave-ins with water leaks should be posted to the Water Leak on Street or Sidewalk page.
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