Changelog

September 1 is when most Boston leases turn over, so the truck and the up-front cash now sit at the top of the page next to the T and the harbour tides, each showing its answer at a glance. Snow parking has come off the top until November.

The school-registration link had gone dead and now points at Boston Public Schools. The trash answer said a Monday holiday usually pushes collection back a day, which the City does not say — it now gives the real set-out rule and points at the new trash day lookup. The Storrowing answer named two of the three car-only parkways; Soldiers Field Road is back.

The tool listed Veterans Day as a day with no daytime sweeping. It is one of three City holidays — with Evacuation Day and Bunker Hill Day — on which sweeping runs as normal, so anyone who trusted it could have left a car out on 11 November and been towed. Thanksgiving and Christmas were missing, and 4 July was listed where the City observes the holiday on 3 July. The list now matches the City's own. The tow note also gave the general police line; it now gives the number the City publishes for finding your car, 617-343-4629.

Massachusetts law sets a minimum heat your landlord must provide — at least 68°F in the day and 64°F overnight through the heating season. The tool shows the minimum that applies right now, lets you check the temperature you measured, and walks through how to report it, with the numbers to call.

A colored-pencil drawing of sailboats and a rowing shell on the Charles, below the Back Bay rooftops, now heads the town page.

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.