Since its inception, Friends of Brooklyn Community Board 6, Inc. has worked with a local artists group to have art installations created in Columbia Street District vacant lots; has worked with Transit Police District 30 to support and coordinate local participation in the “National Night Out Against Crime”; has been approved for a New York State Brownfield Opportunity Area grant for the Gowanus Canal corridor; has been a fiscal conduit for the Baltic Street Mental Health Board, Gowanus Neighborhood Association, St. John Place Block Association; and, with the help of State Senator Velmanette Montgomery, former State Senator Carl Andrews and City Councilmember Sara Gonzalez, obtained funding to hire part time Youth Organizer to help the Community Board identify and fill gaps in youth services in CD6.