The New York Post is reporting that Neighbors who opened their hearts to slain Brooklyn boy Leiby Kletzky's family are now opening their wallets, trying to raise money to move the family from its ramshackle apartment to a new home free from the painful memories.
The goal is to raise $1 million, according to one community leader who is helping to spearhead the effort.
Nearly $60,000 was raised in one day last week.
"Everything in that apartment reminds them of Leiby," a friend said. "It's where he grew up."
A furniture company is donating furniture, and a bedding company is donating bedding, according o a neighborhood source.
The family would be relocated somewhere else in Borough Park.
Eight-year-old Leiby was abducted and murdered after he missed a turn while walking from day camp. Cops said that he asked a stranger, Levi Aron, for directions and that Aron instead took the boy to his Kensington apartment, where he killed him in a panic and cut up the body to hide the evidence.
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