Of the five public pools built by Levitt & Sons and operated by the Levittown Public Recreation Association ( LPRA ), four were closed in 2002 with the exception of one located in the Pinewood section.

This partnership was forged between Nassau County government, a team of national and local corporations, Citizens Campaign for the Environment and the people of Levittown.

Levittown is a census-designated place ( CDP ) and planned community in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States, within the Philadelphia metropolitan area.

Levittown lies in the southern end of Bucks County (" Lower Bucks "), between Philadelphia and Trenton, New Jersey ; Downtown Philadelphia (" Center City ") is approximately away.

Since its inception in 1988, the Bucks County St. Patrick's Day Parade has been held in Levittown.

Larson's first newspaper job was with The Bucks County Courier Times in Levittown, Pennsylvania, where he wrote about murder, witches, environmental poisons, and other " equally pleasant " things.

Reese is co-owner of 1490 WBCB ( AM ) in Levittown, Pennsylvania, a Bucks County suburb north of Philadelphia.

Levittown has applied science, business, and literature ; ;

* Coming Home: Levittown Revisited, a photographic essay by former Levittowner Joan Klatchko who has lived abroad for many years

Brand New, from the New York City suburb of Levittown, has gained critical acclaim by emerging from their post-hardcore roots to becoming one of the more unique indie rock bands with their most recent release, The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me ( 2006 ).

Additionally, a location has been announced for Levittown, NY in the former location of a Waldbaums ® supermarket in Levittown Mews.

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

Mom & Pop's Coffeehouse, a folk concert series held in the sanctuary at United Christian Church in Levittown, PA, uses the altar as the stage, and has been held since 1994.

The town's name was changed from the original Willingboro to " Levittown Township " by a referendum of township residents held on November 3, 1959.

Map of the municipalities, school districts and original sections of Levittown.

* Gans, Herbert J., The Levittowners: Ways of Life and Politics in a New Suburban Community, Columbia University Press ( 1967, reprinted 1982 ), ISBN 0-231-05571-4 ( though written about Levittown, New Jersey, which had since reverted to its original name, Willingboro, New Jersey, the book includes information relevant to Levitt & Sons development in general )

Long Island, New York in the United States became the first large – scale suburban area in the world to develop, thanks to William Levitt's Levittown, New York, which is widely considered to be the archetype of Post-World War II suburbia.

Lake Arbor was originally known as Newbridge, a development of Levitt & Sons, developers of the early planned communities of Levittown in Pennsylvania and Long Island, New York, respectively.

Many of these families — both middle class and working class — purchased homes in Wyandanch because they were denied opportunities to move into other fast developing white housing tracts on Long Island ( such as Levittown ) due to exclusionist real estate practices: steering, restrictive covenants, red-lining or price points.

Construction of Levittown began in February 1952, soon after completion of Levittown, New York, located on Long Island.

Aerial view of Levittown, Pennsylvania circa 1959The Levittowns -- in Long Island, Pennsylvania and New Jersey ( now known as Willingboro, New Jersey ) -- typified the planned suburban communities of the 1950s and early 1960s.

He attended his first peace demonstration soon after the Kent State shootings in May 1970, and gave his first speech against the war at Levittown Memorial High School in Levittown, Long Island, New York that same spring.

William Levitt began a national trend with his use of mass-production techniques to construct a large " Levittown " housing development on Long Island.

Born in Levittown, New York, his family soon moved to Long Beach, California.

Communities like Levittown, Long Island or Lakewood south of Los Angeles saw new homes sold at unprecedented rates — more than one a day.

When Joel first started writing the song, it was originally named " Levittown ", after the Long Island town right next to Hicksville, the town in which Joel had grown up.

Evans, who in 1982 was living in Levittown, New York, on Long Island, was living in Mount Joy, Pennsylvania, when he died at age 81.

Born in Brooklyn, New York, Griffith grew up in Levittown, Long Island, where one of his neighbors was science fiction illustrator Ed Emshwiller, whom he credits with pointing him towards the world of art.

Two of these stores were Waldbaum's ; one each in Centereach and Levittown, both on Long Island.

He wrestled his first match on April 5, 1992 in Levittown, New York at the Island Trees Junior High School, and wrestled one match as Chris Morgan before adopting the ring name Chris Canyon and later changed it to Chris Kanyon.

* Anderson, David, Levittown is Burning: Gas Line Riot and the Decline of the Blue-Collar American Dream ," Labor: Studies in Working-Class History in the Americas ( Duke University Press: Fall 2005 )

* Duncan, Susan Kirsch, Levittown: The Way We Were, Maple Hill Press ( 1999 ), ISBN 0-930545-18-4

Second Suburb: Levittown, Pennsylvania ( University of Pittsburgh Press ; 2010 ) 429 pages.

* Popenoe, David, The Suburban Environment: Sweden and the United States, University of Chicago Press, ( 1977 ), ISBN 0-226-67542-4 ( a comparison of Levittown and Vällingby, Sweden, a Stockholm suburb of similar size, construction date and demographics ; see also Hässelby-Vällingby Borough, Vällingby )

* Wechshler, Lewis, The First Stone: A Memoir of the Racial Integration of Levittown, Pennsylvania, Grounds for Growth Press ( 2004 ), ISBN 0-615-12565-4

* Wetherell, W. D., The Man Who Loved Levittown, University of Pittsburgh Press ( 1985 ), ISBN 0-8229-3520-1 ( fiction, winner of the 1985 Drue Heinz Literature Prize )

The community was known as " Levittown, New Jersey " in 1958, and " Levittown Township " from 1959 to 1963.

Willingboro was less than from Levittown, Pennsylvania and this occasionally caused confusion.

Levittown was receiving mortgage insurance from the Federal Housing Administration.

Timberlake moved to Birdsall with his family on 8-12-77 from Levittown, LI, after retiring from the NYC Police Department ( 110th Precinct, Queens NY ).

What set Levittown apart from other developments at the time was that it was built as a complete community.

A baseball team from Levittown won the Little League World Series in 1960.

Levittown American beat an opponent from Fort Worth, Texas, to win the honor.

The mall, located just north of Levittown, in Langhorne in Middletown Township, drew shoppers away from the older Levittown facility, given Oxford Valley's much larger size and enclosed shopping environment.

* Documents on Integration in Levittown from the Pennsylvania State Archives

In 1944, the GI Bill ( officially the Serviceman's Readjustment Act ) guaranteed Veterans Administration ( VA ) mortgages to veterans under favorable terms, which fueled suburbanization after the end of World War II, as places like Levittown, New York, Warren, Michigan and the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles were transformed from farmland into cities occupied by tens of thousands of families in a few short years.

Kahn began auditioning for professional acting roles shortly after her graduation from Hofstra ; on the side, she briefly taught public school in Levittown, New York.

** Stage Coach Lines ( N71, N73, N74, and earlier N70 ): NOTE: The N70 under Stage Coach was a loop route from Hempstead to Levittown, Bellmore, Wantagh, and back to Hempstead.

For the less affluent, planned communities like Levittown, New York offered Cape Cod styled tract housing, particularly to soldiers returning from World War II.