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Levittown, New York, is an unincorporated area in Nassau County, New York. It can be defined in three overlapping but non-conforming ways. [ 25 ] The most common use is Levittown as defined by the United States Postal Service 's Zip Code 11756.
Levittown, New York – the first Levittown (built 1947–1951) Levittown, Pennsylvania – the second Levittown (1952–1958) Willingboro Township, New Jersey – originally and colloquially known as Levittown (started 1958) Levittown, Puerto Rico (1963) Bowie, Maryland (1964) Greenbriar, Virginia (1966-1971)
On July 1, 1947, Levitt & Sons broke ground on the $50 million ($682 million today) development of Levittown, which ultimately included 17,000 homes on 7.3 square miles of land. Alfred created the mass production techniques and designed the homes and the layout of the development, with its curving streets.
Levitt was born in 1907 to a Jewish family in Brooklyn. [2] His generation was the second since emigrating from Russia and Austria; [3] the paternal grandparents who immigrated to the United States had been a rabbi grandfather from Russia and a grandmother from Austria-Germany. [4]
Jerry Plavin's flashy storefront sign was a landmark in Levittown for decades.
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A jawbone discovered two decades ago in Arizona by a boy with a rock collection was positively identified decades later as that of a Marine who died in a 1951 training accident.
1951 deaths (3 C, 3,850 P) 1952 deaths (3 C, 3,732 P, 1 F) ... People killed by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (2 P) People killed in the Korean War (2 C, 7 P)