  We present the first results of a large imaging survey to identify wide brown
dwarf companions to stars within 10 pc. We have performed a deep (H-band limit
~ 19.0 mag), wide field (up to 16x16 arcmin) astrometric imaging campaign in
two epochs around more than 230 nearby stars.
  Preliminary results show that the wide low-mass companion fraction is far
lower than expected, indicating that interactions with the galactic disk may
have removed the weakly bound wide companions around old stars.
