Universal Hub311 complaint of the day: Cone saving a chair saving a space
https://www.universalhub.com/2026/311-complaint-day-cone-saving-chair-saving-space
Space-saver vigilante springs into action on East Cottage Street in Dorchester, politely for now
https://www.universalhub.com/2026/space-saver-vigilante-springs-action-east-cottage-street-dorchester
You could cut a rug on the streets of the South End and Bay Village
https://www.universalhub.com/2026/you-could-cut-rug-streets-south-end-and-bay-village
Meet the Shovel Man of Jeffries Point: He goes around clearing out parking spaces for everybody to use
https://www.universalhub.com/2026/meet-shovel-man-jeffries-point-he-goes-around-clearing-out-parking
Meet the Shovel Man of Jeffries Point: He goes around clearing out parking spaces for everybody to use
As Boston's 311 system fills up with complaints about space savers, including accounts of violence, Sam McGillis has been quietly going around East Boston's Jeffries Point with a snow shovel, chopping down and clearing away mounts of increasingly icy snow to create new curbside spaces for anyone to use. In the Jeffries Point Neighborhood Association forum on Facebook, he wrote yesterday (with photos): Read more.