Community of Brooklyn
This page is intended to offer pertinent
information about the greater Brooklyn / Brooklyn Park / Curtis Bay areas.
Curtis Bay Historical Link
The Brooklyn Curtis Bay Coalition
The
Brooklyn and Curtis Bay communities have established a community development
corporation known as the Brooklyn Curtis Bay Coalition. This type of
non-profit corporation in our area makes it possible for the corporation to
apply for grants from various city programs and funding agencies to help improve
our neighborhoods. As a member of the Brooklyn/Curtis Bay Ministerial Alliance for close to
20 years, and as a vital part of the Brooklyn community, St.
Rose of Lima is represented on the Coalition by one of the parish's long-time
members, Beverly Schweitzer.
The
coalition has several goals that come under the umbrella of making Brooklyn and
Curtis Bay better places to live and work.
Some specific goals under this umbrella are: to promote home ownership;
to upgrade and increase property values and the quality and condition of both
residential and commercial properties; to encourage, plan and implement economic
development; and to gain efficient access to agencies in order to address common
community issues.
The coalition meets bi-monthly (except July and August). It has made some good ongoing contacts with the Mayor’s Office and with city agencies responsible for trash and solid waste removal as well as code enforcement. Other areas that need to be addressed are crime, drugs, prostitution and substandard rental housing.
Brooklyn
and Curtis Bay have lots of potential for providing good pleasant neighborhoods
where people will want to come and live and work and worship.
Work needs to be done and we need God’s blessing on it.
For now, please keep the work of the coalition in your prayers.
For the future, we will still need your prayers – and will keep you
posted on other things you can do to help make Brooklyn and Curtis Bay better
places to live and work.
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