A very broad question…what neighborhood? Parking in Mattapan or Hyde Park looks a lot different than parking in the South End or Fenway.

Oh, sweet summer child. The free spots are basically unicorns. It’s better for your sanity to just use SpotHero for all day parking and just feed the meter for short term.

You drive around until you find a spot that doesn't have a meter, isn't resident only, and doesn't have any no parking or time limit signs. Easy peasy

Make friends in different neighborhoods willing to share the info, but remember…snitches get stitches

There are tons of free parking spots in Boston.

Hyde Park, Mattapan, West Roxbury, etc.

Best resource I'm aware of:

https://www.spotangels.com/blog/where-to-find-free-parking-in-boston/

When I moved back I managed to get away with street parking for a few days before registering my car and didn't get a ticket, but YMMV on that.

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Spot hero might help you find a paid spot.

even better, streets that allow open parking (aren’t resident only)?

Lmaooooooooooo. Drive around like everyone else. Welcome to Boston.

I use Spothero almost daily. If you keep the push notifications on they'll send you a promo code every week or so

spot hero

your mom

Parkopedia

What direction are you coming from? Alewife, Riverside, and most of the Quincy RL stops have good parking

The ends of each T line have MBTA garages:

https://preview.redd.it/sbr99hn8kwff1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=31e76c53a80be3e380f0a5bec7f1167dfb30d0e8

Counter-clockwise from upper right that’s Wonderland, Oak Grove, Alewife, Riverside, Forest Hills, and Braintree.

Forest Hills from the south ain’t bad, take the orange in and out

Please drop where you are coming from so we can help better. Put it in the post. 

We need more information in order to give you a good answer.

I Park at Riverskde

Meter in Brookline

I usually just park at the prudential center garage and walk the 20mins or so to the stadium. It’s only $25 if you scan your game ticket after you scan your parking ticket when you leave

Museum of fine arts

Highly suggest not driving. It's more hassle than it's worth

The honest answer is that an app is most likely a business, there may be resources from your city in the form of an app. But most of the time the requirements will be posted on your city/towns department of transit pge

Any kind of bike/scooter rental app

Google maps ... and this thing called human vision

Just use your eyes.

We are men, we don't use maps.

We will hunt endlessly in person for the best parking spot

"Onx" is a lot better as it will also include property lines. This allows you to know the borders of private and public land, but also gives you the info of the land owner. This can allow you to go and communicate to ask permission.

Tried it. Hella awkward to use. I can’t figure out how to just turn left. Interesting though, hope it improves

https://earth.google.com

Only compatible with iPad.

Favorite app for scoping out parking... Doesn't show example of scoping out parking, only for Apple, shilling own app and not genuinely sharing a helpful resource.

I'll stick with Google maps satellite and street view.

Most people park overnight in the same area, and the City alert system does a great job of sending reminders. Not sure how useful it would be to most people.

Welcome to Somerville!!

It should be pretty easy to just know which streets near your place sweep on which days - I don't think there's a need for an app for that

I would totally use this! Often when I move my car for street sweeping, I end up on a different street entirely, with a distinct sweeping schedule. It may be tricky to automatically get the right side of the street, but even just having a Google-style map of schedules would be nice.

At least in Somerville, you only get a ticket on street cleaning day. Over in Cambridge, they tow your car!

Except this year they delayed street sweeping without giving a specific date, then towed everyone's cars with no notice.

Push it into the harbor

lol they probably didn’t even plan on parking it probably broke down

Well I mean it is a shit car that isn’t doing well, but we’re mostly upset about it’s Nazi CEO destroying our country, and this particular asshole owner who is illegally parking.

Report it then watch it be ticketed while getting an ice cream from the hood milk bottle.

Oh I like this. Usually I’m team mind your business, but reporting Teslas any time they do anything remotely illegal sounds fun.

You’re in absolutely the perfect spot to address that issue. Do what your forefathers did and make T in the harbor.