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Broken glass in the tot lot playground around the edges

All surrounding the Courtyard Marriott and their parking area is unshoveled and icy. This includes Florence Street, all along Pleasant Street, and in the front along Memorial Drive. It’s been this way since the last snowfall. Many pedestrians use this corridor coming from Trader Joe’s, and going to the traffic signal at the end of Pleasant Street.

Can you repair the gate at the community garden? It just hangs open and has no locking mechanism. The gardeners have taken to having a cable lock on the gate in desperation.

Thank you!

Please cut bushes by the community garden in Riverside Park down to the fence line. It helps with feeling safe while gardening and keeping an eye on kids playing on the hill outside the garden.

Water sprinkler in kids area stays on all the time.

I don’t know what to do. For weeks I find used toilet paper, liquor and beer bottles, used toiletry products in the community garden and down behind the Shell station at Riverside Park. The Multiservice Center number is a recording saying they’re closed. The person at the Dept of Health number says to call the Multiservice Center. In the meantime gardeners are being chased out of the garden by panhandlers or people trying to bathe themselves. We have called the Parks department, DPW, and the head of community gardens, but get no response. It seems outside what they can or want to do. The homeless’ lack of water and bathroom facilities needs to be addressed. People with substance or alcohol abuse problems can’t go to shelters so they are creating unsanitary conditions and making parks unusable. At a time we need parks to safely social distance, and gardens to grow food. It sounds like a city-wide issue but especially along the River - where do I turn?

Leaning badly. Also note tree planting depth of other newly planted tree a few wells down. Also possibly dead.

Tree has deep crack on one side, lots of missing bark on the other, and some branches did not leaf out this year. Pls send someone to evaluate its health and if it may be a hazard. Thank you.

Standing water by the fire hydrant. Possibly a pothole but is always filled with water and seems to be getting worse.

Very sharp piece of metal from sign on sidewalk. Sticking up about 6”, very jagged. Trip and fall hazard.

Newly planted okame cherry tree with gator bag is dead.

Sprinklers in the kids area are always on and don’t shut off. Seems like an incredible waste of water and sounds like it’s damaging other parts of the park like the tennis courts.

It was not like this last year; I went there and the sprinklers were on a timer.

City trash and recycle truck complaint: I just watched from my window as a recycle truck backed quickly into the intersection down Pleasant, nearly t-boning a car that had stopped properly on Allston but could not see a truck barreling down backwards. This is how a cyclist was killed on Putnam last year (not by a city truck, to be clear, but a large vehicle unexpectedly backing up rapidly). I see these city trash and recycle trucks fly down Pleasant weekly, where children are learning to ride their bikes and walking to school. Instruct your drivers/contractors in how to safely share these streets, or get these large deadly vehicles off residential streets. It’s terrifying.

Could you look at signal timing for this walk sign and lengthen it? Difficult to cross the entire stretch without getting stranded at the median while walking at a normal pace. Makes lots of pedestrians dart among cars who have the green arrow to merge into Mass Ave heading toward Porter. With children or moving more slowly can’t make it across in one movement. Thank you