A homeless man died in the cold outside South Station. That should never happen again.

At Monday’s funeral of Carvell Curry, a homeless man found frozen outside South Station on a brutally cold night, some mourners wondered if this could happen again.

Yes, it can.

When temperatures fall below freezing, homeless people sheltering inside South Station have been allowed to stay overnight. That’s no longer the case. Even during the Jan. 25 storm that brought two feet of snow, private security guards told three dozen homeless people sheltering in South Station that they had to leave.

“It’s disheartening. It’s upsetting to have someone not be able to flex and bend in that sort of a situation,” said Dr. David Munson, medical director of the street team at Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program, who was at South Station that night. “No one would ask for it to be open all the time. But it seemed like a time when an exception could be made.”

A spokesperson for Ashkenazy Acquisition, the New York firm that holds a long-term lease to manage the South Station concourse, referred questions to the MBTA.

Yet somehow the biggest snowstorm in years didn’t count as one of those times.

Perhaps that’s what you get from trusting the judgment of Ashkenazy. That’s the same firm that’s held the lease from the City of Boston to run Faneuil Marketplace, and some would say has run the place into the ground.

I get it. South Station is first and foremost a transit hub, and people shouldn’t be sleeping there overnight. But it’s a place of last resort for a group of people known as rough sleepers, the chronically homeless who would never go into a traditional shelter like Pine Street Inn, even in frigid temperatures.

Curry’s body was found on Dec. 5 on a sidewalk outside the station at 7:30 a.m. on one of the coldest days of 2025.