I survived 6 years on the Ave. Married now with two beautiful kids, dogs, live by the ocean and have a business. Even drive a fancy truck. Miracles happen when you want it bad enough. Bless all those still out there. Whenever I'm in Boston I always drive down the Ave for a "remember when " and I see the same faces... sad times. The city is essentially enabling and creating all of it. Closing long Island was deplorable.
How did you do it … It seems like everyone’s deteriorating down there Robbing & beating each other Is it true if a normal dude like me walked down there, they would try to rob of jump me? Like is it that bad …
@@georgebuonopane6601 just get sick and tired of living that way. Individual has to make a decision to get out of there. For me finding out that my liver was shutting down and being kept in the hospital for 9 weeks was what I needed to get out of there. It gave me time off the Ave for my body to heal in my mind to get right and from there it was one foot in front of the other. Definitely a struggle but got easier as each day passed. There's just more people there now the situation hasn't changed I've seen people stabbed Beatdown robbed shot at you name it and I've seen it but by-and-large a regular person could walk around there and not really be in any danger. You might have people ask you for money or cigarettes but I really don't think any physical harm would come to you. I still go down there whenever I'm in the city just to check it out and have a remember when moment and have never been assaulted or approached. They will buy in large leave you alone it's when you start dealing with them that your risk goes up but just being a passerby I think you're fine.
@@georgebuonopane6601 his family is rich and his mom works for the carpenters union... They have been paying his way out of trouble every time he gets arrested
This is heartbreaking. My niece was struggling here for some time before being pulled out and convinced this wasn't how things should be. I have no idea what the solution is but affording them basic shelter and life necessities would be a good start. They're human beings, our relatives, our neighbors, let's find a solution.
Build all the shelters you want. They don't want to be in the shelters because you can't shoot up in the shelter. Build new high security "hospitals" where they are forced to go and get clean for a year. Then if they can stay clean and employed for a year we can talk about housing assistance.
@@HowardRoark-jo7ik you don’t have a clue what drug addiction does to a person, socialism enforced on them won’t solve a damn thing. It’s more than just doing drugs, these people are trying to survive, most likely hustling to get money for the drugs AND other stuff like food, drinks, phone bills, etc. and maintaining basic life. Housing is the first thing that needs established, having a roof over your head is the very first security a person needs, then get them on a program for treatment, like methadone maintenance/Suboxone program. Once the drug addiction is under control then the very next step is gainful employment and continuation of mental health treatment. They need room and board and a facility to go too with professional healthcare, that’s for damn sure.
@UC9WL8bvKxtmZag8C4Qge61w WOAH did you just say PHONE BILLS?! Jesus Christ you do not understand what it means to be homeless there. What company do you think is partnering with homeless people that have no credit? These people ONLY want to shoot up. That's it. Go ahead. Ask them I have. They don't want housing as like it was mentioned you can't shoot up there. They want the freedom to be that piece of shit you see. That's why I'm my opinion you treat them with the same hostility they treat us. Get violent and force them out. The only reason they stay is because we're s liberal bastion who will coddle them. The moment we start coming in with pepper spray, bats, non Lethal rounds, tasers then they'll leave. They'll get it and fuck off somewhere else. I don't give a shit if they die in the woods as long as they're not a issue for us.
The issue is these people aren’t local, they come from all over the country because they hear the city of Boston gives out free drugs. They will continue to come as long as free drugs are provided.
Everyone’s coming to Boston for the “great health care” for people with addiction/addictions and unfortunately do not accept the help or can’t get the help they really need due to high demand at the moment and remain to use.I don’t know how it got so bad so fast.Thank you for making this video and sharing what’s going on out here. God Bless The Mile & everyone walking in it or through it and God Bless America XOXO
some of us truly do want the help but the clinics are at capacity, the shelters are dangerous and youre liable to get robbed or stabbed in them. the state paints us all as villians and evildoers when thats only some of us. some of us want to get better bug we're trapped down here
Ur .Ying, ignorant of real truth... THERE IS NO AVAILABLE MH BEDS NO MENTAL HEALTH BEDS, NO SHELTER BEDS AVAILABLE,, BCUZ UR ILLEGAL ALIENS STOLE THEM ALL.... ALL MH BED INPAIENT HOSPITAL ACRROSS THE STATE HAVE SHUT DOWN,,,, WAKE UP.... THEY DEDPERATELY WANT AND NEED HELP.. THEY DO ASK FOR HELP... THERES NO WHERE TO GO.... NO AVAILABILITY.....
There is a jail, hospital, fire department, food bank, rehab clinic and a target within a 1/2 mile of this area. And unfortunately an elementary school.
Spent some memorable days and nights out there, but my best buddy spent years.. RIP Joey. Addiction and mental health issues in a nut shell. Very sad. I’m blessed to be out of that life currently as a recovering heroin addict
I got married there a couple years back, between two tents. The guy doing the ceremony nodded out and forgot his lines. I stepped on a dirty syringe and accidentally did a line of benzo dope and woke up in a ditch with my pockets inside out and my pants to my ankles. On top of it, I think i was bit by a squirrel or something cause my asshole hurt for awhile. The women i married was nice (met her the day before) until she started smoking crack that night and accusing me of sleeping with james brown. I tried telling her i was more of a franky beverly guy, but regardless.... she divorced me a week later for a skinny transvestite pimp with one leg named marsavion jergins. To make a long story short, this place gets a bad reputation for no reason!
How was he a joke? Im not even trying to argue with u im just curious. I dont pay much attention to politics anymore but i feel like most people i’ve heard talk about him seemed to like the guy. What has he done that u dont like.
For anybody thinking they didn’t know they had a tent city this is new a couple years ago there was no tents and everything allowed like this I am four years clean now but four years ago when I was down in that black hole it was nothing like this and if it had been like this I probably wouldn’t even of got clean it’s actually 10 times worse now there was times where people were lying on the cement next to the church but the cops will come and kick you out of the parking lot most of the time everybody was out there during the day and at night it would clear out but because of Covid it made it that this is OK now
Sadly I lived out there since 2013. Jail couldn't even stop me. I ended up having a beautiful family of my own few years ago an I'm clean but shit is still hard financially
No stimulus checks nor rent assistant nor reduction lot tax n military complex, bet tent and homeless towns and city would be double worse, all way up to city hall and politicians front yards. Hahahahah
Wow what’s crazy is that I was just there last week driving by and that gas station is abandoned now. Crazy to see the difference in only less than a year.
in the winter i know some people save up enough money to travel by bus or train somewhere like florida. most get a couple jackets and multiple layers of pants and survival of the fittest happens. its terrible, but things might change with the tent city because it popped up early summer or late fall. so people will try to stay in the tents when it gets cold but there will be a lot of deaths because people wont see or hear those overdosing in their tents if theyre alone. and there will probably be a few fires in the tents from people trying to stay warm with heaters or some homemade shit that will end up burning their tent down. few of the really mentally ill dudes in downtown sleep and lay on these vents that push up hot air from the train tunnels. you can ride the trains from one end of the line to the other from when they open to when they close if youre crafty enough. or just hang out in a station til somebody kicks you out. you gotta understand its like constant new people down there cause for every overdose someone else comes on down and takes up residence at the methadone inn. you WILL get robbed at the shelters and they kick both parties out (and usually ban both parties) in a fight, so if youre just trying to chill at the shelter and some mentally ill dude tries to attack you or you even catch somebody trying to rob you, youre back out on the street, usually with whoever is tryna kill/rob you. theres a delicate balance in maintaining a strong healthy junk habit, and theres not THAT many old people down there. loads of people come from the towns around Boston because its so easy to get drugs there. finding GOOD drugs is a harder feat. if i had to rate it like a restuarant, id give it a 5/10. might get stabbed or robbed, but the foods decent when the good chefs are at work. any time after 11 or 12pm youre out of luck though. they dont stay long.
@@archivespider yeah I know all too well.. I spent a good portion of last winter on the ave. I slept two buildings over from PATHS the place that gives out gizzies and crack pipes. I am clean and sober now thank god and living at a halfway house in Waltham. I'm too old for that shit I almost died out there. I went to my storage unit about a month ago and drove down South hampton st. & it was pretty scary. First person I saw was my ex girlfriend. I noticed her only by her tattoos because she looked like death warmed over...
@@Jason5000 glad you made it out dawg stay out 😂 only cause its the worst kind of living, living on the ave. i dread every time i gotta go down there cause it is BAD. people just laying in the street or slouching standing up. saw a girl rolling around on the ground spazzin out with her top off on monday. shits just fucked. i love hearing from people who made it out though so im happy for you man! keep it up you got this
Yup...the storage units, woods mullen (what a hellhole) bmc, the dta office, percs, jonnys, phrenegans, bars....i guess since occupy people decided that living in a tent outside was more dignified then dealing with disciminatory religious zealots at the shelter...cant say i blame them...guess its gotten worse since 2012 we didn't have tents like that in those days...i remember not having a job during the recession (except labor ready) and sleeping at logan airport, atm lobbies, wherever i could just collapse and not freeze...contrary to popular belief bostons population hasn't really gone up that much in the last 10 years...there's no opportunity for anyone without a masters degree and all of factories are gone and the unions are nepotistic as hell... unfortunately none of the shelters in boston when i was there were set up to help homeless workers. I was at woods mullen with sub zero temps and told they were full after a 12 hr shift shoveling snow thru the Broadway labor ready in southie...in the end i left Boston. Now i have a job and a place to live. Best decision i ever made.
they need to BUILD THE FUCKING BRIDGE!! there's LITERALLY AN ENTIRE ISLAND to help these people, but everyone wants to cry over who pays for it 🤷 how's nanny more people have to DIE ON SOUTHAMPTON ST before they build it
I didn't even know we had a tent city in Boston. The greatest was when you beeped at those junkies in the street. They kind of jumped like they didn't even see you coming.
Massachusetts is full and bursting at the seams. We need to get people out of here, not in here. There is a housing crisis our "leaders" will not address.
I survived 6 years on the Ave. Married now with two beautiful kids, dogs, live by the ocean and have a business. Even drive a fancy truck. Miracles happen when you want it bad enough. Bless all those still out there. Whenever I'm in Boston I always drive down the Ave for a "remember when " and I see the same faces... sad times. The city is essentially enabling and creating all of it. Closing long Island was deplorable.
How did you do it …
It seems like everyone’s deteriorating down there
Robbing & beating each other
Is it true if a normal dude like me walked down there, they would try to rob of jump me?
Like is it that bad …
@@georgebuonopane6601 just get sick and tired of living that way. Individual has to make a decision to get out of there. For me finding out that my liver was shutting down and being kept in the hospital for 9 weeks was what I needed to get out of there. It gave me time off the Ave for my body to heal in my mind to get right and from there it was one foot in front of the other. Definitely a struggle but got easier as each day passed. There's just more people there now the situation hasn't changed I've seen people stabbed Beatdown robbed shot at you name it and I've seen it but by-and-large a regular person could walk around there and not really be in any danger. You might have people ask you for money or cigarettes but I really don't think any physical harm would come to you. I still go down there whenever I'm in the city just to check it out and have a remember when moment and have never been assaulted or approached. They will buy in large leave you alone it's when you start dealing with them that your risk goes up but just being a passerby I think you're fine.
@@georgebuonopane6601 his family is rich and his mom works for the carpenters union... They have been paying his way out of trouble every time he gets arrested
Just never stop for a Reminder
I was out there too! From 2018 to 2021. What's ur name?
This is heartbreaking. My niece was struggling here for some time before being pulled out and convinced this wasn't how things should be. I have no idea what the solution is but affording them basic shelter and life necessities would be a good start. They're human beings, our relatives, our neighbors, let's find a solution.
Build all the shelters you want. They don't want to be in the shelters because you can't shoot up in the shelter. Build new high security "hospitals" where they are forced to go and get clean for a year. Then if they can stay clean and employed for a year we can talk about housing assistance.
@@HowardRoark-jo7ik you don’t have a clue what drug addiction does to a person, socialism enforced on them won’t solve a damn thing. It’s more than just doing drugs, these people are trying to survive, most likely hustling to get money for the drugs AND other stuff like food, drinks, phone bills, etc. and maintaining basic life. Housing is the first thing that needs established, having a roof over your head is the very first security a person needs, then get them on a program for treatment, like methadone maintenance/Suboxone program. Once the drug addiction is under control then the very next step is gainful employment and continuation of mental health treatment. They need room and board and a facility to go too with professional healthcare, that’s for damn sure.
@UC9WL8bvKxtmZag8C4Qge61w WOAH did you just say PHONE BILLS?! Jesus Christ you do not understand what it means to be homeless there. What company do you think is partnering with homeless people that have no credit?
These people ONLY want to shoot up. That's it. Go ahead. Ask them I have. They don't want housing as like it was mentioned you can't shoot up there. They want the freedom to be that piece of shit you see.
That's why I'm my opinion you treat them with the same hostility they treat us. Get violent and force them out. The only reason they stay is because we're s liberal bastion who will coddle them. The moment we start coming in with pepper spray, bats, non Lethal rounds, tasers then they'll leave. They'll get it and fuck off somewhere else. I don't give a shit if they die in the woods as long as they're not a issue for us.
@@Royed your fucked up
And if that happened
Ppl would come from every where to defend them
As fucked up as that sounds, I guarantee it!
The issue is these people aren’t local, they come from all over the country because they hear the city of Boston gives out free drugs. They will continue to come as long as free drugs are provided.
Everyone’s coming to Boston for the “great health care” for people with addiction/addictions and unfortunately do not accept the help or can’t get the help they really need due to high demand at the moment and remain to use.I don’t know how it got so bad so fast.Thank you for making this video and sharing what’s going on out here. God Bless The Mile & everyone walking in it or through it and God Bless America XOXO
some of us truly do want the help but the clinics are at capacity, the shelters are dangerous and youre liable to get robbed or stabbed in them. the state paints us all as villians and evildoers when thats only some of us. some of us want to get better bug we're trapped down here
Quincy’s spoiled ass could’ve agreed to the long island bridge……problems would be solved
Ur .Ying, ignorant of real truth... THERE IS NO AVAILABLE MH BEDS NO MENTAL HEALTH BEDS, NO SHELTER BEDS AVAILABLE,, BCUZ UR ILLEGAL ALIENS STOLE THEM ALL.... ALL MH BED INPAIENT HOSPITAL ACRROSS THE STATE HAVE SHUT DOWN,,,, WAKE UP.... THEY DEDPERATELY WANT AND NEED HELP.. THEY DO ASK FOR HELP... THERES NO WHERE TO GO.... NO AVAILABILITY.....
My sister has been on the Ave for the last 8 years. She is in FL getting the help she needs. I pray this will be the time 🙏
There is a jail, hospital, fire department, food bank, rehab clinic and a target within a 1/2 mile of this area. And unfortunately an elementary school.
Also many aid organizations and shelters too. I did think it was funny that people get high right outside The Bay (jail)
Also 2 methadone clinics. One on bradston st. The other 2 blocks down on Topeka st. Hence ( methadone mile )
Spent some memorable days and nights out there, but my best buddy spent years.. RIP Joey. Addiction and mental health issues in a nut shell. Very sad. I’m blessed to be out of that life currently as a recovering heroin addict
I got married there a couple years back, between two tents. The guy doing the ceremony nodded out and forgot his lines. I stepped on a dirty syringe and accidentally did a line of benzo dope and woke up in a ditch with my pockets inside out and my pants to my ankles. On top of it, I think i was bit by a squirrel or something cause my asshole hurt for awhile. The women i married was nice (met her the day before) until she started smoking crack that night and accusing me of sleeping with james brown. I tried telling her i was more of a franky beverly guy, but regardless.... she divorced me a week later for a skinny transvestite pimp with one leg named marsavion jergins. To make a long story short, this place gets a bad reputation for no reason!
try to write a book like charles bukowski or something
@@kjererrt7804 lol
I've lived 20 min North of Boston my entire life and never knew this existed. I don't know whether I should be thankful or embarrassed.
Walsh was a joke. Bet you the new mayor will not do anything but serve themselves politically
How was he a joke? Im not even trying to argue with u im just curious. I dont pay much attention to politics anymore but i feel like most people i’ve heard talk about him seemed to like the guy. What has he done that u dont like.
Been living in Mass for 15 years and just found out about this part. Wow 😔
Damn wtf is going on didint know that boston got that problem like philly.daamn
Dude, the whole area is even worse today.
All as intended by the powers that be. Eliminate as many ppl as possible to further their own agenda
For anybody thinking they didn’t know they had a tent city this is new a couple years ago there was no tents and everything allowed like this I am four years clean now but four years ago when I was down in that black hole it was nothing like this and if it had been like this I probably wouldn’t even of got clean it’s actually 10 times worse now there was times where people were lying on the cement next to the church but the cops will come and kick you out of the parking lot most of the time everybody was out there during the day and at night it would clear out but because of Covid it made it that this is OK now
Sucks knowing most of these people still stuck there
Sadly I lived out there since 2013. Jail couldn't even stop me. I ended up having a beautiful family of my own few years ago an I'm clean but shit is still hard financially
Why is everyone treating these people like animals. They are human and deserve help!
If they were camped out in front of the Governors house, I bet cops would get the will to enforce the law real quick.
No stimulus checks nor rent assistant nor reduction lot tax n military complex, bet tent and homeless towns and city would be double worse, all way up to city hall and politicians front yards. Hahahahah
It's out of control Marty Walsh ran to Washington he didn't want to deal with that
You can thank Marty Walsh for this sad mess.
Lying rat I called him out I. 2016
With channel 5 .
There's one of these in every city in America rn! Philly been trying to clean it up for....... decades.. to no avail
Wow what’s crazy is that I was just there last week driving by and that gas station is abandoned now. Crazy to see the difference in only less than a year.
What happens when it gets cold? It's not like la or san fransisco which are mild all year
You don’t feel the cold when you’re constantly high my friend
Just like you see it now...no difference
in the winter i know some people save up enough money to travel by bus or train somewhere like florida. most get a couple jackets and multiple layers of pants and survival of the fittest happens. its terrible, but things might change with the tent city because it popped up early summer or late fall. so people will try to stay in the tents when it gets cold but there will be a lot of deaths because people wont see or hear those overdosing in their tents if theyre alone. and there will probably be a few fires in the tents from people trying to stay warm with heaters or some homemade shit that will end up burning their tent down. few of the really mentally ill dudes in downtown sleep and lay on these vents that push up hot air from the train tunnels. you can ride the trains from one end of the line to the other from when they open to when they close if youre crafty enough. or just hang out in a station til somebody kicks you out. you gotta understand its like constant new people down there cause for every overdose someone else comes on down and takes up residence at the methadone inn. you WILL get robbed at the shelters and they kick both parties out (and usually ban both parties) in a fight, so if youre just trying to chill at the shelter and some mentally ill dude tries to attack you or you even catch somebody trying to rob you, youre back out on the street, usually with whoever is tryna kill/rob you. theres a delicate balance in maintaining a strong healthy junk habit, and theres not THAT many old people down there. loads of people come from the towns around Boston because its so easy to get drugs there. finding GOOD drugs is a harder feat. if i had to rate it like a restuarant, id give it a 5/10. might get stabbed or robbed, but the foods decent when the good chefs are at work. any time after 11 or 12pm youre out of luck though. they dont stay long.
@@archivespider yeah I know all too well.. I spent a good portion of last winter on the ave. I slept two buildings over from PATHS the place that gives out gizzies and crack pipes. I am clean and sober now thank god and living at a halfway house in Waltham. I'm too old for that shit I almost died out there. I went to my storage unit about a month ago and drove down South hampton st. & it was pretty scary. First person I saw was my ex girlfriend. I noticed her only by her tattoos because she looked like death warmed over...
@@Jason5000 glad you made it out dawg stay out 😂 only cause its the worst kind of living, living on the ave. i dread every time i gotta go down there cause it is BAD. people just laying in the street or slouching standing up. saw a girl rolling around on the ground spazzin out with her top off on monday. shits just fucked. i love hearing from people who made it out though so im happy for you man! keep it up you got this
How do they live in tents in dead of winter?
probably not much fun I do love my wood stove
right beside the methadone
clinic
Sending prayers🙏🏾
😔
Addicts way of living by there DRUG OF CHOICE SAD SITUATION FOR THESE ADDICTS GET HELP ASAP PLEASE ONE DAY AT A TIME
Wow I was in South Bay from 2014 to 2017 before I went upstate it didn’t look like this
Yup...the storage units, woods mullen (what a hellhole) bmc, the dta office, percs, jonnys, phrenegans, bars....i guess since occupy people decided that living in a tent outside was more dignified then dealing with disciminatory religious zealots at the shelter...cant say i blame them...guess its gotten worse since 2012 we didn't have tents like that in those days...i remember not having a job during the recession (except labor ready) and sleeping at logan airport, atm lobbies, wherever i could just collapse and not freeze...contrary to popular belief bostons population hasn't really gone up that much in the last 10 years...there's no opportunity for anyone without a masters degree and all of factories are gone and the unions are nepotistic as hell... unfortunately none of the shelters in boston when i was there were set up to help homeless workers. I was at woods mullen with sub zero temps and told they were full after a 12 hr shift shoveling snow thru the Broadway labor ready in southie...in the end i left Boston. Now i have a job and a place to live. Best decision i ever made.
Not one person came near you even though you're taping them there's a cruise right there not doing nothing
hey i saw myself lmao
I hope u find a new way to live
It is sad,but their choise.They should not use drugs,but work!!!
when half of america is like taht it's already not their choice only but something bigger.
Crown jewel of the city
they need to BUILD THE FUCKING BRIDGE!! there's LITERALLY AN ENTIRE ISLAND to help these people, but everyone wants to cry over who pays for it 🤷 how's nanny more people have to DIE ON SOUTHAMPTON ST before they build it
Holy Holy Holy SHIT!!!!
Wow
Pray for cookie and her husband is a no good 💯 keep tripping and her husband is a no good 💯😊😊 love 💝 Mr keep it gee rip cash
I didn't even know we had a tent city in Boston. The greatest was when you beeped at those junkies in the street. They kind of jumped like they didn't even see you coming.
Ya that’s super cool..
Oh they do and it will get worse for you guys in Baston lmaoooo
anybody know where I can find xannies? lol
It’s bad they are out there but at least not on the highway anymore lol smh so sad
Lost of bullshit out there these days.
THEY GOT MORE LOCKERS THAN PGM CHICAGO.
Looks like LA
Massachusetts is full and bursting at the seams. We need to get people out of here, not in here. There is a housing crisis our "leaders" will not address.
😱
Esto es yanquilandia
ah, democrats!
Sleepy Joe's America! Sad!
It’s been like this for years
@@chrissantos5580 because we've been run by Sleepy Joe's party for so long. But the biggest problem right now is white supremacy, right?
It's been like this. Even during trump.
Fuck you mean, it's been like this under trump and Bush last two years
And wat???,,ooohhh adrive by ....scary😊