The brainchild of developer William J. Levitt, the first Levittown sprang to life in 1947 on 1,300 acres of potato fields on Long Island. When completed in 1951, it encompassed over 5,000 acres and some 17,500 single-family homes, making it the largest...

In 1946, developer William J. Levitt and his brother Alfred capitalized on the twin circumstances of enormous demand and unequaled opportunity of the post-World War II era by purchasing 1500 acres of potato fields in Nassau County, Long Island and then...

Levittown is the name of some large suburban developments created in the United States of America by William Levitt and his company Levitt &...

Levittown, where suburbia began Uniform community for vets paved way for middle class By MARYCLAIRE DALE Associated Press Sunday, July 14, 2002 Levittown, Pa. -- Two weeks before Christmas in 1951, a New York builder invited prospective buyers to view...

Baxandall, Rosalyn, and Elizabeth Ewen, Picture Windows: How the Suburbs Happened (New York: Basic Books, 2000), 352 pp., $27.50, cloth. (Due out in paperback in January 2001.) Judging by the number of column inches now devoted to the subject in the national...

In 1951, 7-year-old Louise Cassano couldn't imagine a better life than the one here, where she rode her bicycle past rows of cookie-cutter houses, kids held backyard campouts in makeshift tents and nobody locked their front doors."It was an absolute ideal community," said Cassano, whose...

As of Sunday, April 8, 2007, at least 3,280 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes seven military civilians. At least 2,634 died as a result...