Changelog

Pick your rental truck or enter its height to see whether it can drive Storrow Drive, Soldiers Field Road or Memorial Drive (it can't — they're cars only), and the truck-legal way around. Timed for the September 1 move.

Search your street to see how often it's swept, which side and block, and the next scheduled sweeping day, straight from the City's open schedule. Move your car the night before, not after the tow.

A new tool lists the highest predicted high tides for Boston Harbor over the next six weeks — the dates to watch — and says, from live NOAA predictions, how close the highest one comes to NOAA's minor coastal-flood stage. On a calm day the tide alone stops a little short; it's wind, rain and storm surge piling on top that put water on Long Wharf, Morrissey Boulevard, East Boston and the Seaport. These are predictions, not a flood warning: the page points to the National Weather Service and the City for that.

Plain answers to what people ask when they're new to Boston — the September 1 move, 'don't get Storrowed', trash and street-cleaning days, the T, the school lottery, and 311.

What to do with your car when the city declares a snow emergency — the parking ban, the discounted resident garages, and the space-saver rules for your neighbourhood (including where they're banned).

Add up first month, last month, the security deposit and any broker fee to see the cash you need before you get the keys. It reflects the 2025 law that stops a landlord from making you pay the fee for a broker they hired.