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Levittown[lev´ut-toun´´] Pronunciation Key. 1 Uninc. residential city (1990 pop. 53,286), Nassau co., SE N.Y., on Long Island; founded 1947. It was originally developed by Levitt and Sons, Inc. as a mass-produced area of private, low-cost housing. 2 Suburban development (1990 pop. 55,362), Bucks co., E Pa., between Philadelphia and Trenton, N.J. It was the second housing establishment built (1951–55) by Levitt and Sons, Inc., who repeated the low-cost residence plan of the N.Y. development. The very name itself, Levittown, has come to symbolize the U.S. post–World War II suburban phenomenon, which first gave middle-class families the option of inexpensive, single-unit housing outside the urban sector.
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