By adamg on Tue., 7/16/2013 - 1:11 pm
The City Hall to Go Truck will be at 460 West Broadway in South Boston between 4 and 7 p.m., with workers handing out free bottles of cold water - and listening to you dispute your parking tickets and pay your excise and property taxes.
At 5, there's a free ice-cream party at the Mildred Avenue Community Center, 1 Mildred Ave. in Mattapan, featuring the Boston Police Department ice-cream truck stocked with lots of Hoodsie cups.
At 6, the truck toodles over to Gertrude Howes Park, 33 Fairland St., Roxbury, to hand out more Hoodsies to people taking free chess lessons under the park's shade trees.
All city spray areas are open until 8 p.m.
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By anon
Tue, 07/16/2013 - 1:14pm
how do you think they pay for it? Only thing free from the Government is Bullshit.
This is just what Obama
By TheVanJones
Tue, 07/16/2013 - 1:40pm
This is just what Obama wants. It starts with the ice cream and the next thing you know we are up to our ears in debt.
OMG FREE ICE CREAM!!
By Scratchie
Tue, 07/16/2013 - 1:52pm
HE'S HISTORY'S GREATEST MONSTER!!1!1!!
Hey...
By synky
Tue, 07/16/2013 - 2:28pm
What about Beacon Hill?
Naw.
By roadman
Tue, 07/16/2013 - 3:02pm
Ice cream trucks aren't historically accurate for the 18th century.
Whew good thing..
By Sarcastic Sam
Tue, 07/16/2013 - 3:56pm
..BMWs and Touregs are historically accurate, so long as they have Beacon Hill neighborhood parking permits.
That's not free either
By Bea W
Wed, 07/17/2013 - 2:25pm
Government bullshit is directly funded by tax dollars. I wouldn't mind if government diverted some of the BS funds to distributing Hoodsie Cups at places like TSA checkpoints or on disabled MBTA trains. Mixing that bullshit with a delicious refreshing Hoodsie cup might make it a bit easier to swallow.
What about
By anon
Tue, 07/16/2013 - 1:18pm
Roslindale, West Roxbury, C-town, HP and JP.
You jest?
By anon
Tue, 07/16/2013 - 1:49pm
Those 'rich' folk can afford their own water and ice cream.
And what about Allston/Brighton? Never mind, those neighborhoods are completely ignored by the city. Go right next door to 'rich' Brookline and there's all kinds of social services. I guess you can sneak over the border as an illegal and pretend you're a citizen of Brookline.
And check out ALL the 'community' centers, health clinics, food pantries, etc., in 2 or 3 Boston neighborhoods, then see how many there are in say Hyde Park. Who says living in a 'poor' neighborhood doesn't have it's rewards.
Hyde Park?
By adamg
Tue, 07/16/2013 - 2:59pm
You mean Hyde Park with the MDC pool? Hyde Park with the community center? Hyde Park with the brand-new library addition? Oh, and Hyde Park with the frickin' city-owned golf course?
Or is there some other Hyde Park I don't know about?
Seriously, you people need to up your game a bit and come up with a better example than the mayor's own neighborhood for an example of how all you poor well-off people are being ripped off by actual poor people.
Hey, who are you calling "you
By ZedThou
Tue, 07/16/2013 - 3:07pm
Hey, who are you calling "you people?!"
Oh that one.
By Boston_res
Tue, 07/16/2013 - 3:10pm
He meant "you homo sapiens.". Better?
No no...
By John-W
Tue, 07/16/2013 - 4:02pm
...I'm pretty sure he meant "you, homo." Now that's better.
(And dontcha rile 'em much more or he's liable to get all 1975 on your ass and call you a "gaylord.")
Roslindale
By anon
Tue, 07/16/2013 - 3:07pm
No High school, No Police Station, No rapid transit a shit hole community center and one of the smallest library's in the city. Mmmm i wonder what Consavlo's been doing all those years....
Roslindale has Purple Line service to Needham and South Station
By Stephen of Roxbury
Tue, 07/16/2013 - 9:29pm
Roslindale Village. Perhaps Bellevue is in Roslindale.
How could i forget
By anon
Tue, 07/16/2013 - 3:14pm
No Youth programs, No Youth sports (Except Baseball but the couch was arrested)our parade sucks now (everyone has their own opinion why, No Ice Rink, No Gym, JP has over run the Arnold Arboretum, and No Tennis Courts. That all i could think of right now!
JP has overrun the Arborteum?
By adamg
Tue, 07/16/2013 - 3:30pm
What the hell does that even mean? Are there angry 20somethings in skinny jeans and fedoras keeping you and your Rozzie-rat family from enjoying the Arbs?
Actually there are tennis courts in Roslindale. Granted, they're off Dale Street, which is like practically in Hyde Park or something, but yeah, I can see why you want to secede.
No
By anon
Tue, 07/16/2013 - 4:04pm
Just dog shit everywhere. And what do you mean by my "Rozzie-rat family", AHOLE!
Oh, right
By adamg
Tue, 07/16/2013 - 4:46pm
Because Roslindale dog owners are as responsible as JP dog owners aren't and always, always pick up after their pets and never, never let them run loose in the Arboretum.
Dale Street Courts are in Hyde Park
By Waquiot
Tue, 07/16/2013 - 4:05pm
I only say that because when one goes up Dale Street, one passes the boundary stone, and the courts are on the "H" side of the stone. Of course, I might have the wrong orientation for the stone, but I'm fairly certain it's Hyde Park.
Still, I have to go all the way to Mattapan to get free ice cream?!
If you're going by 1912 definitions, then, yes
By adamg
Tue, 07/16/2013 - 4:13pm
Otherwise, it's Roslindale. Things change. You can't even cross into Hyde Park from there anymore, at least not by car (or horse, I suppose).
Speaking as a "Rozzie Rat"
By Waquiot
Tue, 07/16/2013 - 4:26pm
(yes, I've heard the phrase)
I know someone who lives across the street from the courts. They call it Hyde Park. To be honest, I was amazed to see how North-South the boundary is in the area. Still, it's Hyde Park.
And yes, you can cross. Keep going down Sherrin Street to Austin. That'll take you about to Cleary Square.
Oh how I hope this turns into a boundary thread.
I bow to their definition
By adamg
Tue, 07/16/2013 - 4:49pm
Always go with the locals, I say!
Yeah, Sherrin to Austin (or for that matter, Dale to Poplar) would work, but try getting to Hyde Park High School from there!
And yeah, boundary lines are great. That particular marker is my favorite.
..."the Arbs?" Ha!
By Anon
Tue, 07/16/2013 - 4:05pm
..."the Arbs?" Ha!
Rozzie-Rat = Classism
By anon
Tue, 07/16/2013 - 4:09pm
That's uncalled for.
Let's face it; a handful off neighborhoods get the lion's share of goodies and services, mostly those closest to downtown and the 'inner' city. Some of these neighborhoods are so well known, they're almost like their own brand. Everyone else is semi-forgotten.
Classism?
By adamg
Tue, 07/16/2013 - 4:16pm
I admit it, I'm from away, so your ways frighten and confuse me. So what you're saying is that it's OK for people in Dorchester to call themselves Dot rats - and even tattoo the phrase on their backs - out of a sense of pride but that Roslindale residents who were actually born here are too refined for that?
In a city that doesn't have any neighborhood high schools, what difference does it make that Roslindale doesn't have one? At least the Back Bay and Beacon Hill have a legitimate gripe when it comes to elementary schools.
As for other city services, eh. It's not like we're surrounded by jagged mountain ranges that cut us off from the rest of the city (truth be told, where we are, it usually takes us less time to get to Cleary Square than Rozzie Square).
Stuff that really needs to be done locally is - our trash and recycling are picked up once a week, just like in the rest of the city - except those parts with rat infestations, where they get 2 or 3 pickups a week, but it's kind of nice living in a place where that's not an issue. You call 911 and somebody responds.
oh snap
By Doreian
Tue, 07/16/2013 - 3:26pm
love that for all the ignorance and bile that has been spewed on UHub comment sections, especially whenever a bike or race is mentioned, it took "free ice cream" to bring some snark out of Adam. Get that man a hoodsie, stat.
We actually have a bag of 'em in the freezer
By adamg
Tue, 07/16/2013 - 3:35pm
Maybe my mistake was in not posting every single time the city hands out water bottles or Hoodie cups. Maybe I should start doing that. I'll go completely insane and bore everybody, but, hey, it'll be worth it, no? :-).
Hoodie Cups?
By anon_nona
Tue, 07/16/2013 - 4:30pm
That's what you wrote. Available only in Mattapan in Roxbury? What about dirty Dot?
Hoodsie Cups
By adamg
Tue, 07/16/2013 - 5:15pm
Obviously, I left off the middle S for savings! Or because I can't type to save my life, your choice.
You'd have to ask BPD about the schedule, but, no, it's not limited to just Mattapan or Roxbury.
You people?
By anon
Tue, 07/16/2013 - 4:03pm
Well off?
OK, if you say so. I'm average middle class, am not rich or well off, live in the city but because most inner city neighborhoods are now unafforable unless you really are 'well off', or are legally considered 'poor' and get housing subsidies. Then there's the issue of crime. I lived in HP for 8 years. Further away from downtown Boston than all of Brookline, Cambridge, Newton, etc., and with more low income/working class people and FAR fewer well off people. For that I had the privilege of no express bus service downtown, no rapid transit stops, commuter rail [but until very recently @ Fairmount] considered zone 1, meaning it cost MUCH MORE than a subway. I now live in W. Roxbury, and it aint much better, just a few more 'well off' people.
Where's the neighborhood health clinic[s] in HP? And I like 98% of people don't play golf. The library addition is 13 years old now. What we're left with is a community center. There's zero question Dorchester, Roxbury, South Boston, C-town, East Boston have more resources and goodies thrown at them.
I'm not the kind of person you may think I am, and am absolutely not a troll or shill for anybody, any ideology, any organization, etc.
My apologies
By adamg
Tue, 07/16/2013 - 4:45pm
Didn't mean to lump you in with the sort of people who get bored at the Herald comment sections and come over here to bleat about Obama.
Yes, Hyde Park does have issues - look at the violence over by Wood Avenue. I didn't realize there wasn't a neighborhood health clinic. And you're right about the Fairmount line.
But it also has some strengths. It is solidly middle class. It doesn't have the drug problems of a South Boston or the violence of parts of Dorchester, Roxbury and Mattapan. Does it really need all the resources being thrown at those places?
What about
By anon
Tue, 07/16/2013 - 2:40pm
I was looking for Rosie also, I guess we don't really feel the heat... ah well, pssst!!
The Mayor's poor attempt
By anon
Tue, 07/16/2013 - 3:07pm
to make it up to the people of South Boston for taking parking out of the zoning process.
BPD ice cream truck to be in Dot-Roxbury. Racial profiling?
By O-FISH-L
Tue, 07/16/2013 - 6:01pm
So the BPD is sending a specialized unit, presumably to target young people in Dorchester and Roxbury in the middle of the heat wave? Where are the cries of racial profiling?
There are poor people all
By Boston_Bloke
Tue, 07/16/2013 - 7:41pm
There are poor people all over the city. Ask any social service agency, there are people "at risk for hunger" (their term, not mine) all over Boston.
Instead of focusing on public housing tenants in the neighborhoods most likely to riot, the city's priority should be the elderly, the physically and mentally disabled, who are unable to make it outside to get the complimentary cold water and ice cream.
They were giving out free ice cream in Roslindale today
By adamg
Tue, 07/16/2013 - 8:08pm
At the Flaherty Pool.
And you know who lives in Roslindale? Yes, white people! And poor people!
So O-Fishy can stop with his "jokes" about racial profiling. And other people can stop complaining about how unfairly the city treats poor Roslindale.
Oh, and the city was also giving out free bottles of water outside the BPL in Copley Square. Where rich people live!
Everybody wins!
So why didn't I link to those? Because I didn't see the city press release until those events had already started so I figured it didn't make any sense to mention them - and I obviously had no clue that UHub had become home to terminally cranky people who somehow would get so incredibly annoyed that the city was doing something nice like giving out little cups of ice cream (and, yes, to cranky people replying to all the other cranky people - raises hand).
City supplies free water, ice cream AND sunscreen in WRox
By adamg
Wed, 07/17/2013 - 12:44pm
12-1 at Hynes Field, at a splash/dance party in the spray area, no less.
Once again, I got the memo from City Hall too late to do anything good with it, like post it (since the memo I got came at 11:45 from the mayor's press office, which was more in the mode of letting photographers know where they could get a good beat-the-heat photo than alerting the public).
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