New York's neo-communist mayor Zohran Mamdani's new budget raises a disquieting question: Is Mamdani putting America's foremost city in irreversible decline.

It's a stretch of the Big Apple where laws don't seem to exist. Squatters living in more than a dozen trailers and RVs -- and even a decommissioned ambulance -- have turned a Bronx street into a filthy nightmare, with illegal generators and propane tanks lining the sidewalk and waste from chemical toilets dumped right into the street.