There is a town in Nassau County, where I'm from, on Long Island. This town is in the history books for making a debut of a new type of living area. This town is Levittown. Levittown was the start to surburbia. Sixty years ago this weekend Levittown was established.
William Levitt began to build this town in 1947. The building of the town consisted of thirty houses a day. The town was meant to build homes for people to move out of the city and into residential areas and for the GI's to have a place to go when they got back from the war. All the houses looked relatively the same. None of the houses had basements or garages and the second floor was the attic.
The streets in the town were named in groups, like there would be a group of streets named after flowers, or birds. There are two high schools, General Douglas MacArthur High School and Division Avenue High School. One of the main roads is Hempstead Turnpike. Many famous people have grew up in this town such as Billy Joel and Bill O'Reilly. The town has been such a rise to surbubia.
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