Allston-Brighton has become home to a variety of clubs aiming to connect neighbors with shared interests, providing young adults with the opportunity to build community should they seek it. 

A few houses down, on the top floor of a double decker, an elderly man with a bird on his shoulder stood in his window. An amber light shone down on the pair of them, so there’s no way for me to tell what color the bird really was, but I think he was something like blue and orange and yellow. I also wasn’t wearing my glasses — so who’s to say if it was really a bird at all.