Mass. and Cass

A day after the Boston City Council approved a new Mass. and Cass ordinance, Mayor Michelle Wu provided an update on what the city is doing to help those living in tents transition from the troubled area. Starting Thursday, Wu said the Inspectional Services Department will post notices around the area to inform people about the prohibition of tents, tarps…

The Boston City Council has approved Mayor Michelle Wu’s proposal to give police the authority to clear encampments in the area known as Mass. and Cass, but many cast doubt on the city’s ability to help the people who are living in those tents once they’ve been cleared. City Councilor Ricardo Arroyo voted against his own version of the...

Included on Tuesday’s hearing agenda, which is scheduled for 2 p.m., is the discussion of a resolution calling for a state of emergency, and an order for a hearing to discuss the humanitarian crisis at the intersection.

Four Boston city councilors are urging public health officials to declare a state of emergency at the Mass. and Cass area of the city that has become synonymous with the substance abuse crisis plaguing the region. Councilors Erin Murphy, Frank Baker, Ed Flynn and Michael Flaherty signed the letter, asking that the Boston Public Health Commission take a vote to…

The Boston City Council quietly moved one of the most-talked-about issues in the city into its legislative process Wednesday with little discussion in the chamber, rejecting an attempt to immediately adopt the mayor’s strategy for addressing encampments in an area that’s at the center of the state’s opioid epidemic. The council sent an ordinance from Mayor Michelle Wu related...

Boston’s mayor discussed her plan to reopen the addiction recovery campus that once operated on Long Island in the Boston Harbor after visiting the facility Wednesday. Mayor Michelle Wu, along with Commissioner of Public Health and Executive Director of the Boston Public Health Commission Dr. Bisola Ojikutu, held a news conference to share the latest on the plan for the...

Despite repeated attempts to do something about the tents and trauma at Boston’s Mass. and Cass area, there seems to be no solution that’s working. “Give these people somewhere to stay so they can get off the streets,” said Gwendolyn Jones, who lives at a neighborhood shelter and knows how dangerous the area can be. “It’s really scary, they...

A person was stabbed Tuesday night in Boston’s troubled Mass. and Cass area, police said. The stabbing occurred around 9 p.m. on the 800 block of Massachusetts Avenue, according to the Boston Police Department. Authorities say the victim was hospitalized with life-threatening injuries. Police have not said whether any arrests have been made.

A day after Boston Mayor Michelle Wu warned the area around Melnea Cass Boulevard and Massachusetts Avenue had reached a “new level” of public safety concern, lawmakers who represent the district pushed for law enforcement to play an increased role in keeping it clear. Ten police officers are now working in the Mass. and Cass area 24 hours a day….

Despite efforts to clean up Boston’s troubled Mass. and Cass area, it is still rife with crime, and violence has spiked in recent weeks. Boston Mayor Michelle Wu said Wednesday that the situation has become dangerous enough that even outreach workers are not feeling comfortable anymore. Sue Sullivan, the executive director of the Newmarket Business Improvement District, which works...

A man was arrested after a foot chase in Boston on Monday morning. The chase took place in the Melnea Cass Boulevard and Massachusetts Avenue area around 7:50 a.m. Police said that the man, identified as 27-year-old Joseph W. Russell, ran from them and then tried to instigate an attack on the officers. An state police lieutenant was transported to…

The City of Boston plans on once again enforcing a tent-removal protocol on Monday in the homeless encampment near the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard, according to the Boston Globe. The city has allowed tents at the “Mass. and Cass” area over the winter, the Globe said, but officials have been letting people know that they’ll...

A man was charged in a hit-and-run crash that killed a man pushing a wheelchair in Boston last month, prosecutors said. Abner Jean-Baptiste, a 36-year-old from Roxbury, was charged Thursday with motor vehicle homicide by negligence and leaving the scene of a crash, the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office announced Friday. Investigators tracked the SUV that hit Michael E....

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu is once again calling for help from the state to handle persistent homelessness and substance use problems at the city’s “Mass and Cass” intersection. Wu and former Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker clashed on the issue of state support for the troubled area in the fall, and her latest call for help comes with Gov. Maura...

Terrance Rosario says he was working as a security guard at a nearby hotel when he saw a homeless man with a wheelchair get struck by a car in the Mass. and Cass area of Boston.