A homeless man’s death in the freezing temperatures outside South Station in December spurred Boston City Councilors on Wednesday to collectively urge the MBTA to keep the transit hub open for overnight shelter.
Carvell Curry, 62, experienced more than a decade of homelessness in Boston before his death on Dec. 5, when he succumbed to the cold outside the city’s busiest transit station, City Councilor Miniard Culpepper said Wednesday.
“His preventable death highlights the consequences of gaps (in the) cold-weather response of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority and the city of Boston for unhoused individuals,” Culpepper wrote in a resolution adopted unanimously by his colleagues…