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Levittown, Pennsylvania

Levittown is a census-designated place (CDP) and planned community in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is part of the Philadelphia metropolitan area. The population was 52,699 at the 2020 census, down from 52,983 at the 2010 census.[4]

Levittown

United States

Pennsylvania

Bucks

10.40 sq mi (26.94 km2)

10.30 sq mi (26.68 km2)

0.10 sq mi (0.26 km2)

30 ft (9 m)

52,699

5,116.41/sq mi (1,975.38/km2)

UTC−5 (EST)

UTC−4 (EDT)

19054–19055 and 19057–19058

215, 267, and 445

42-42928

August 8, 2017[3]

Levittown is 40 feet (12 m) above sea level. Though not a municipality, it is sometimes recognized as the largest suburb of Philadelphia[5] while Upper Darby, Lower Merion, Bensalem, Abington, and Bristol townships are municipalities larger in size within the three surrounding Pennsylvania counties. Starting with land purchased in 1951, it was planned and built by Levitt & Sons. The brothers William Levitt and architect Alfred Levitt designed its six typical houses.


Levittown is located 72.5 miles (116.7 km) southeast of Allentown and 26.6 miles (42.8 km) northeast of Philadelphia.

Appletree Hill

Blue Ridge

Crabtree Hollow

Dogwood Hollow

Farmbrook

Golden Ridge

Greenbrook

Holly Hill

Indian Creek

Junewood

Kenwood (small portion in Tullytown)

Magnolia Hill (1 House in Falls Twp.)

Mill Creek

Oak Tree Hollow

Orangewood

Plumb Ridge

Red Cedar Hill

Stonybrook (small portion in Tullytown)

Violetwood

Whitewood

Yellowood

Education[edit]

Middletown residents are served by public schools run by the Neshaminy School District. Bristol Township public schools are managed by the Bristol Township School District. Falls Township and Tullytown Borough residents are served by the Pennsbury School District.


Some students attend schools run by Catholic, Lutheran, evangelical Protestant and Quaker organizations, in and around Levittown.

current Special Teams coordinator for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers[36]

Keith Armstrong

anchor of the CBS 3 Philadelphia evening news[37]

Susan Barnett

Secretary-Treasurer of the SEIU[38]

Anna Burger

Bucks County Commissioner and Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania[39]

Jim Cawley

U.S. Army captain and decorated Vietnam veteran[40]

David A. Christian

musician[41]

Rick DeJesus

Hollywood screenwriter and director[42]

Steven E. de Souza

former outfielder for the Boston Red Sox

Bob Zupcic

U.S. Representative for the 1st District

Brian Fitzpatrick

former U.S. Representative for the former 8th District[43]

Mike Fitzpatrick

Disney animator and director[44]

Eric Goldberg

TV writer and producer

Steven Kunes

evangelical Protestant author[45]

Jeri Massi

former Major League Baseball player

Joe McEwing

four-time All American ten-pin bowler for Saginaw Valley State University who is now competing on the PBA Tour[46]

Bill O'Neill

creator of Kim Possible[42]

Robert Schooley

Republican former Governor of Pennsylvania[47]

Mark Schweiker

Former running back for the NFL's Miami Dolphins[48]

Steve Slaton

drummer for rock band The Hooters[49]

David Uosikkinen

former NFL defensive back, attended Pennsbury High School[50]

Troy Vincent

American-Israeli former professional basketball player[51]

Earl "the Twirl" Williams

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)

Anderson, David

Caldwell, Christopher, National Review, (May 31, 1999) (arguing that the multi-acre lots of the western suburbs such as those who attend Columbine High School in Colorado, largely unknown in the east, isolate affluent suburban children and present a problem that no child in Levittown ever faced)

"Levittown to Littleton: Seclusion of Affluent Suburbs Prevents Normal Socialization For Children,"

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

ISBN

Dubya, Jay (Wiessner), Black Leather and Blue Denim: A '50s Novel, CyberRead Publishing (2001),  1-931921-76-8 (a fictionalized account of "greasers" in Levittown's Dogwood Hollow and Kenwood sections during the 1950s)

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(1967). The Levittowners: Ways of Life and Politics in a New Suburban Community (PDF). Columbia University Press. ISBN 0-231-05571-4. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 9, 2005. Retrieved December 4, 2020. (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)

Gans, Herbert J. Gans

Goetz, Sam. , 16 mm black and white film (2006) (Sam Goetz grew up in Lower Orchard section of Levittown; the production was filmed at locations in the "urban wasteland" of Trenton, New Jersey, and at locations in and around Levittown, including Core Creek Park, the former Best Department Store, Neshaminy High School and a Jubilee-style Levittown home)

Bruno

Harris, Dianne, ed. Second Suburb: Levittown, Pennsylvania (University of Pittsburgh Press; 2010) 429 pages. Scholarly essays, oral histories, and other writings on the town

Hurst, Richard, , Christopher Street (New York: February 1994, issue 210), ISSN 0146-7921 (written by a former Levittowner about Little League baseball, "the only tradition in our otherwise ahistoric lives of glass-ceiling experimental schools and clean theme-park summers," recounting summers marching as the season began from Carl Sandburg Middle School to the ball fields south of Twin Oaks)

"My Bay"

(1985), Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States, New York: Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-504983-7

Jackson, Kenneth T.

Kimmel, Chad, , University of Western Michigan Dissertation (2004) (examines the arrival of Levittown's first African-American family, the 1979 gas riots and the decline of the steel industry on local residents)

Levittown, Pennsylvania: A Sociological History

Krass, Alfred C., "," Christian Century, (April 1987) (Krass was pastor of the United Christian Church in Levittown, and still a resident of the community; he asks how mainstream Protestants might move beyond the "autonomy of the individual member" that is so often part and parcel of a liberal world view)

Growing Together in Spirituality: Pastor and Parish Have a Check-Up

Harcourt School Publishers (no date)

Levittown: Voices of the Millennium (video)

Popenoe, David, The Suburban Environment: Sweden and the United States, University of Chicago Press, (1977),  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)

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

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

ISBN

Levittown: Building the Suburban Dream, a website of a 2003 exhibit about Levittown at the State Museum of Pennsylvania

Levittown Community Profile

Levittown Detailed Profile

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

Film images of Levittown's construction

More film images of Levittown's construction

Mastrull, Diane, "A Bit Worn, But Still Solid, Philadelphia Inquirer, (December 7, 2005)

Middletown Township Millennium Park and Recreation Plan, including a map of Levittown's greenbelt parks in Middletown Township on pages 161–62

Metropolitan Philadelphia population and geography

– slideshow by The New York Times

The People of Levittown, Pa.

Documents on Integration in Levittown from the Pennsylvania State Archives