Levittown

American  

[lev-it-toun] / ˈlɛv ɪtˌtaʊn /

noun

1. a town on W Long Island, in SE New York.

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Example Sentences

That division was clear when AFP visited Levittown, a blue-collar area on the outskirts of Philadelphia lined with car dealerships and auto repair shops.

From Barron's

That method worked well at Levittown, with its identical houses on identical parcels, and continues to serve the nation’s large homebuilders, who might offer a handful of prototypes in each development.

From Slate

Greenberg captures the postwar ethos in a single line when one of the sister’s explains to a visitor that her family lives “in Levittown for the time being, but later on, you never know.”

From Los Angeles Times

Levittown and Little Boxes, welcome to the war on cars!

From Slate

Kim Johnson, whose “The Color of a Lie” won the award for young-adult literature, said she set her book, about a white-passing Black teen, in 1955 Levittown, Penn., after her first novel was banned in Bucks County, where Levittown is located.

From Los Angeles Times