a newsletter, contract for a private security patrol, welcome new residents, encourage historic preservation, raise funds for neighborhood projects and sponsor social events including family-oriented parties in the neighborhood park and open to the public. OBPOA is a member of the University Place Super Neighborhood Council (SN#28) and the University Place Association. It maintains liaisons with Houston City Council, Houston Parks Department and the Public Works and Engineering Department, the Brays Bayou Association, Trees for Houston, and Preservation Houston. In 1988 the association published a book about the architectural history of the neighborhood. The Old Braeswood Garden Club, founded in 1939 and one of the oldest garden clubs in Houston, meets monthly and is open to residents of Old Braeswood. The Old Braeswood Book Club, founded in 2014, also meets monthly and is open to Old Braeswood residents. Government and infrastructure Old Braeswood is a part of the University Place Super Neighborhood Council. It is within Houston City Council District C. Old Braeswood is in Texas's 7th congressional district. Houston Fire Department Fire Station 37 Braes Heights is located at 3828 Aberdeen Way. Houston Fire Department Station 33 Medical Center is near the Texas Medical Center. The neighborhood is within the Houston Police Department's South Central Patrol Division. The neighborhood is also patrolled by a private company and by the Harris County Pct 1 Constable. Harris Health System (formerly Harris County Hospital District) designated Martin Luther King Health Center in southeast Houston for ZIP code 77030. The nearest public hospital is Ben Taub General Hospital in the Texas Medical Center. Education Area schools The neighborhood is zoned to Houston Independent School District schools. The zoned public schools for Old Braeswood include Roberts Elementary School, Pershing Middle School (a fine arts Magnet School), and Lamar High School. Students assigned to Pershing may also apply to the regular program of Pin Oak Middle School, a foreign language magnet school, in Bellaire. Debakey High School for Health Professions, a medical magnet school, is also nearby in the Texas Medical Center. Roberts Elementary opened in 1936. An addition was installed in 1948. There are a number of private schools in close proximity to Old Braeswood, including St. Vincent de Paul Catholic School, a K-8 school of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston. Rice University is only a mile away. Libraries The Houston Public Library McGovern-Stella Link Neighborhood Libraryand the Harris County Public Library West