homeless

How many times do we have to tell you? News boxes are not backpack lockers

adamg — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 16:27:38 +0000

So just knock it off.

Our own John Keith tweets:

I have breakthrough news for the BPD: many newspaper machines have backpacks in them.

Abby Conway adds:

Seriously. the ones in Dewey Square are filled with signs and belongings of the homeless in the area.

Thanksgiving hunger

adamg — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 04:54:50 +0000

Matthew I. reports he happened to have his camera with him on the way to Starbucks this morning when he spotted this man on Mass. Ave. in the Back Bay:

Gave this guy a couple bucks. Took his photo from across the street on the way back.

Copyright Matthew I. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.

Nurse learns ambulances can only drive so fast

adamg — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 15:23:20 +0000

The shelter resident had a serious medical problem - he was suicidal. But a shelter nurse told him to tell 911 he was having a heart attack because that would make the ambulance get there faster. The responding paramedics had a problem with that.

Homeless sleeping in Copley Square

adamg — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 12:29:01 +0000

Dave Daniels takes some photos.

LiveJournal as social-services network

adamg — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 19:32:01 +0000

Can Davis Square LiveJournal get woman into homeless shelter?

Of mice and crazy men

adamg — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:31:39 +0000

Ezra found himself yesterday dealing with conundrums involving both.

Down and out in Harvard Square

adamg — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 14:35:43 +0000

He is 57, has a BS from a local college, has a wife and son. And now he sleeps in the entrance to the Harvard Coop. On the Street is a blog by a man who says he became homeless when he lost his job and he kept coming down with serious infections that require hospitalization:

For me the hardest part of being on the streets is trying to pass the time during the day when the shelter is closed. Where I am staying now closes at 8 AM and reopens at 7. On a day like today when the weather is good it isn't a problem but this being winter you never know.

Today for example I killed an hour at Starbucks having a cup of coffee and reading the Globe. Now I am using a public computer at Harvard to check e-mail and post to the blog, and later will go to the Cambridge Library where I can sign up for another hour on the net.

Au Bon Pain in Harvard Sq is a favorite gathering spot for people on the streets. The management there is kind to the homeless and does let people stay there to keep warm during the day. ...

Rise and shine, sleepyhead

adamg — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 00:05:36 +0000

Carpundit doesn't mind homeless people sleeping in ATMs - as long as they're gone in the morning, unlike the guy he found in one around 10 a.m. this past Sunday:

... By ten on a Sunday, most industrious bums are begging in front of the Dunkin' Donuts or scrounging for cardboard to make their excuse signs for holding up traffic. Does Boston have adequate shelter for these people on the bitter winter nights? No? Could we at least rent some vans and drive them to Cambridge, where they actively seek bums?

Sleeping outside the Coop

adamg — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 14:13:49 +0000

Aaron Swartz chronicles sleeping outside the Coop recently (why? Because he could, basically):

... Around 11:30 it was getting pretty empty and the musician began packing up his stuff. I didn't last much longer, so I laid my sleeping bag out along the side of the Coop and climbed inside. There were about five or six people on the other side, all tiled in nicely with each other, all in a different sort of gear. ...

Homeless observations

adamg — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 11:59:00 +0000

Evan describes the various homeless people he's seen of late, including the guy who sleeps on the steps of his building.

Back Bay alley napping

adamg — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 13:06:46 +0000

KingVitaman photographs a homeless man sleeping in a Back Bay alley:

The irony here is that this alley runs parallel to two of the richest, most popular, well-traveled streets in Boston.

The ultimate answer to Big Dig problems

adamg — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 13:11:27 +0000

Carpundit comes up with a plan to solve the tunnel problems, create jobs, house the homeless AND clean up the Back Bay all at once.

The Giant Homeless Slumber Sleeping Party

adamg — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 14:35:07 +0000

That's what Jen Stewart calls the Boston Common these days:

... Now that the weather's warm, it becomes much more apparent just how many homeless people are sleeping on the Common. I feel like I'm walking through the world's biggest slumber party every morning. And not a happy, carefree, giggling 12 year old girl slumber party, either. Are they sleeping somewhere else during the cold months, or have we suddenly had a big influx of people with nowhere to go? ...

Farm Aid big on the streets of Boston

adamg — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 00:39:22 +0000

Jesse Kanson-Benanav wonders:

Has anyone else noticed all the homeless people around town wearing Farm Aid 2005 t-shirts? ...

Homeless paper: Herald wrong about the Stomper

adamg — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 12:55:03 +0000

Spare Change News, the newspaper by and for homeless people, says the Herald erred in making a connection between "the Stomper" (the allegedly violent homeless guy with a predeliction for stomping other homeless people) and the recent death of a homeless man in Downtown Crossing. Mark reposts Spare Change News's article (and gets a comment from a Herald editor dismissing the Spare Change News report):

HERALD SPREADS FALSE PANIC AMONG HOMELESS PEOPLE
Dennis Connolly didn't kill Steven Neiber, witnesses tell SCN ...

Earlier: The two-newspaper town

My standard newspaper disclosure.