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Walking down my own block in Allston Sunday afternoon, I came upon discarded TVs, destroyed furniture, and broken beer bottles. I have seen many parts of Allston treated more as a temporary staging or dumping zone than as a neighborhood. That is why I was so happy to see this article on the newsstand at my local convenience store:

[Roughly a dozen volunteers] met with the Allston-Brighton North Neighbors’ Forum on Aug. 2 and 3 to plant trees and bushes along Everett Street between Lincoln and Adamson streets...

“This is a site that’s been pretty neglected,” said Mattison. “There are these sort of bands, these slivers and patches, of the neighborhood that have gone neglected for too long, and [it’s] too east to forget they are there.”