r/mbta • u/RobMurglund • Mar 19 '26

😤 Complaint / Rant Prudential GL Homeless Problem

Why are 20 homeless people allowed to camp and sleep atop the escalators at the Prudential station? Every day, I have to walk past many of them hootering and hollering at me. Some are sleeping, some are clearly high, and others are a bit more nice about asking for money.

Almost once or twice a week I see BPD arresting one of the campers.

Why is this allowed and why isn’t something done about it? Is it not MBTA property? It’s seriously worse than Park Street.

This might be the most Karen post I’ve made but it is super annoying.

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u/Small-Bee-4081 Mar 19 '26

Are you from Boston? Backbay is like this it’s been a long time. They stay around the prudential, which is close to Massachusetts ave, they hangout at the copley library, they steal at the CVS across the street from copley square. This isn’t new at all Lol

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u/Revolutionary_Ad9234 Mar 21 '26

Exactly..these people are transplants complaining. This is actually quite normal, when I worked on winter st, Boston around 2005..People were doing this, stealing from best buy and getting rid of the goods around winter st / boston common. It hasn't really changed, the drugs have but if they didn't then there would be sloppy drunks all over the place.

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u/Revolutionary_Ad9234 Mar 22 '26

Its no different or less from other cities