
A concerned citizen files a 311 complaint about old news boxes on Dartmouth Street outside Back Bay station.
This gets filled up with trash and looks like trash. I think there are at least two of them outside Back Bay station. Would be great to throw out and would be very simple.
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Curious how they know they are being filled with trash?
By fungwah
Thu, 12/08/2022 - 1:32pm
I'm imagining this person checking every day to see if there's a new Phoenix and being disappointed every time when it's just trash again.
Which publications still actively use street boxes?
By Ron Newman
Thu, 12/08/2022 - 2:37pm
I know that the Bay State Banner and Somerville Times still distribute this way. Which others?
What is the rent?
By Bob Leponge
Thu, 12/08/2022 - 6:46pm
How much are those publishers paying us for the use of our real estate to locate their distribution boxes? I don’t know what the rent ought to be, but I’m pretty sure $0.00 isn’t the right answer.
Rental fee
By Camberville
Fri, 12/09/2022 - 12:25am
They're probably paying the same amount as thousands of other residents who store their own metal boxes -- that are 100 times bigger -- on miles of public real estate.
And honestly, this is like the "excise tax on cyclists" argument. It's a solution in search of a problem, and would cost more in administrative costs than it would bring in.
This could be an old Boston Phoenix box that
By MC Slim JB
Fri, 12/09/2022 - 9:04am
has managed to hang around years after the publication folded. Those boxes were red.
Vision Times @Ron Newman. It
By Don't Panic
Mon, 12/12/2022 - 10:42pm
Vision Times @Ron Newman. It's a Falun Gong-affiliated Chinese language weekly newspaper. The copies in Forest Hills are in English.
Used to be called "The Epoch Times"
By Ron Newman
Tue, 12/13/2022 - 9:13am
Still a worthless rag.
Weekly Dig!
By Chris77
Fri, 12/09/2022 - 10:49am
Weekly Dig!
They haven't printed a paper edition since April
By Ron Newman
Fri, 12/09/2022 - 10:56am
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