Black Families Are Leaving New York. Can a Pastor’s Plan End the Exodus?

Black Families Are Leaving New York. Can a Pastor’s Plan End the Exodus?

On one of the coldest mornings of the year, David K. Brawley stood on the roof of a new home for seniors he had helped create, his coat fluttering in the wind. He surveyed his domain. He pointed to the left, toward the hazy outline of the Manhattan skyline, to the rows of rental apartments below that he had helped develop. He pointed to the right, toward Jamaica Bay, to the mall and the rowhouses, built on top of landfill and overgrown fields, w…