Domingos DaRosa makes a point.
In the year since city police and public-works crews cleared out a growing encampment of homeless people and drug users on Atkinson Street, Mass and Cass has seen a significant decrease in crime and quality-of-life problems, officials from Boston's police and public-health departments told city councilors at a hearing by the council's committee on public safety and criminal justice. Read more.
A man who ran a prostitution-and-cocaine tent at Mass and Cass pleaded guilty today to several federal counts that, if a judge agrees, will send him away for 15 years - followed by five more years of probation, the US Attorney's office reports. Read more.
Boston Police report arresting a woman they say stabbed a man outside the city shelter at 112 Southampton St. around 11:30 p.m. on Sunday. Read more.
A man was stabbed in the chest shortly before 4:25 p.m. at Mass and Cass. He walked into the McDonald's at 870 Massachusetts Ave., where staffers called 911. Not long after BPD officers arrived, the homicide unit was called in, due to the severity of his injuries.
Updated rendering showing cafe.
The Zoning Board of Appeal yesterday approved plans by Mario Signore to change his proposed three-story cannabis factory at 100 Hampden St. to include a ground-floor marijuana store and a separate cafe. Read more.
A Suffolk Superior Court jury today convicted Mary Fox, 42, of second-degree murder for the stabbing death of Michael Dezrick in Clifford Playground near Massachusetts Avenue and Shirley Street on Aug. 3, 2020, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
Boston Police report arresting the man they say robbed smoke shops in the Fenway and the Back Bay earlier this week. Read more.
WCVB reports on the fatal crash around 3 a.m. at Massachusetts Avenue and Albany Street. The driver remained on scene, WCVB reports.
A Suffolk Superior Court jury yesterday convicted an Everett man for involuntary manslaughter in the beating and stabbing murder of Ricardo Garcia at Allerton and Peirson streets on Aug. 8, 2021, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
Boston Police report arresting a man they say was packing both a gun loaded with ten bullets and "five plastic bags of what they believed to be crack cocaine" outside 941 Massachusetts Ave. shortly before 8 p.m. on Saturday. Read more.
A Suffolk Superior Court jury today convicted a man of first-degree murder for fatally stabbing Ricardo Garcia after Garcia tried to protect his girlfriend from the man and a couple of his pals in the Mass and Cass area on Aug. 8, 2021, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
Mayor Wu said today the number of people in tents or tarps at Mass and Cass has dropped from 50 to 14, the State House News Service reports. Wu last week announced another attempt to move people out of the area and into temporary housing or treatment.
ISD inspectors will fan out across Mass and Cass today posting notices that the city will start removing all "tents, tarps and other temporary structures" in the area on Nov. 1, Mayor Wu announced today - adding the state has approved Boston's plans to rebuild the Long Island bridge and that the city is now looking for a project-management company to oversee the work, for which the city has already set aside $81 million. Read more.
A disgruntled Boston City Council today approved a measure that will make it easier for police to sweep Mass and Cass and remove tents, with several councilors saying they doubt the measure will mean a long-term fix. Read more.
Boston Police report a man was stabbed in the back and shoulder at the city shelter at 112 Southampton St. around 9:40 p.m. on Saturday. Read more.
Boston Police report a man was stabbed outside of the Southampton Street shelter around 3:30 a.m. Read more.
The Boston Public Health Commission reports power went out at its Woods-Mullen Shelter on Massachusetts Avenue near Boston Medical Center around 3 a.m. and remains out as of this evening. Read more.
Erin Murphy calls for immediate emergency declaration.
Councilor Erin Murphy (at large) today urged her colleagues to tell the Boston Public Health Commission it should declare a formal state of emergency exists at Mass and Cass. Read more.
The Globe reports City Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson (Roxbury) had her phone taken during a mugging near Atkinson Street Saturday night as she walked around to get some first-hand Mass and Cass knowledge in advance of considering the mayor's proposal to make it easier to remove tents and other shelters there.
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