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10 unusual facts about Levittown


26259 Marzigliano

It is named after Gerard Marzigliano, an American educator in Levittown, New York.

An Te Liu

Pattern Language creates wallpaper from aerial photographs of Levittown the “first truly mass-produced suburb” in North America.

Damian Maffei

He and his family — which included his parents Mary and William along with his brothers John and Jeremy and his sister Jennifer — then moved to Levittown, New York, where he attended Abbey Lane Elementary School and Wisdom Middle School.

Gladiator-At-Law

It was created to satisfy a vision of housing for Everyman, similar to the Levittown ideal.

Levittown, Puerto Rico

It is a scenic route that provides a nice coastal view in which Punta Salinas' radar domes and El Morro can be seen.

Levittown High's Basketball team has produced several excellent players including Ramon Rivas, who played for the NBA with the Boston Celtics.

Miss Understood

Miss Understood (aka Alex Heimberg) is an American drag queen originally from Levittown, New York, who has been based in New York City since the late 1980s.

Neshaminy School District

Most of Neshaminy facilities were constructed during the 1950s and 1960s after the construction of Levittown and its ensuing development.

Planned unit development

The oldest forms of the planned unit development in America appeared shortly after World War II in the Levittowns and Park Forest developments as whole communities within the limits and orbits of large metropolitan centers.

Western Terrace

It was constructed in the 1950s in a suburban style similar to Levittown, New York, where every house is very similar which allowed for more efficient, and thus more economical homebuilding practices.


Fallsington, Pennsylvania

Until the construction of Fairless Hills and Levittown, it was the largest settlement in the Township, and functioned for many years as a commercial center.

Molly McGrann

Her first novel, 360 Flip, looked at the tensions lying below the surface of the "American Dream" in a 60s Levittown-style suburb, through the eyes of a disillusioned young poet growing up there in the 1950s.

Nunley's Happyland

The park proved popular with young families who moved into surrounding communities such as Bethpage, Levittown, Massapequa, and Farmingdale, and attendance in the first years of operation surpassed expectations.

Pam Conrad

Her book Our House: Stories of Levittown was a Newbery Medal finalist.

Willie James

In his lawsuit against Levitt and Sons, James stated that on June 29, 1958 an agent of that company told him that the new Levittown development would be an all-white community.

When homes for the new Levittown were first being sold, Levitt and Sons had a policy to not sell homes to African-Americans.

In 1958, Levitt and Sons started selling homes for their new Levittown project in South Jersey (in what would later become Willingboro Township).