After Coming Together for a Frantic Search, a Community Is Left Reeling.

When day broke on Wednesday in Borough Park, Brooklyn, the swarms of volunteers went home defeated, and the detritus of a frantic 36-hour search for a missing boy lay strewn by the curb. There were plastic water jugs, napkins and fliers outside the brick apartment building where Leiby Kletzky and his family lived on 15th Avenue, in the heart of the Hasidic neighborhood. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]