BOS:311
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#101006019821
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This hole in the sidewalk is direct access to our building for rats. IS was onsite today to treat but unless the City fixes the sidewalk the rats will continue to enter. I do not want to see this closed with the comment that this is private property. It is not. The curb is damaged which caused the bricks to fail. The coal chute is entirely intact. While trying to investigate lost footing on one of the bricks and sprained my ankle. This is a known issue for the city for more than 4 years. I have escalated to the Mayors office and Asst Comm of Env Services - John Ulrich. This group has been highly responsive! I fully expect the bricks to be fixed in the next few weeks. Alternatively, the City can manage the infestation in our building, including paying for ongoing extermination and I’ll put a sign over the damaged sidewalk area stating “if injured call 617-635-4900.
Location
604 Massachusetts Ave, 1, Roxbury, Ma, 02118
42.33763988, -71.07723049
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    Case Noted | Coal Chutes are the responsibility of the property owners. City of Boston Ordinance 11-6.18 Indemnity for City. Every owner of an estate hereafter maintaining any cellar, vault, coal hole or other excavation under the part of the street which is adjacent to, or part of, his or her estate, shall do so only on condition that such maintenance shall be considered as an agreement on his or her part to hold the city harmless from any claims for damage to himself or herself or the occupants of such estate resulting from gas, sewage or water leaking into such excavation or upon such estate; and every such owner and every person maintaining a post, pole or other structure in a street, or a wire, pipe, conduit or other structure under a street, shall do so only on condition that such maintenance shall be considered as an agreement on his or her part with the city to keep the same and the covers thereof in good repair and condition at all times during his or her ownership and to indemnify and save harmless the city against any and all damages, costs, expenses or compensation which it may sustain or be required to pay, by reason of such excavation or structure being under or in the street, or being out of repair during his or her ownership, or by reason of any cover of the same being out of repair or unfastened during his or her ownership.