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Levittown is a hamlet in eastern Nassau County deep in the interior of the Island and gets its name from the firm Levitt & Sons, Inc. credited with building the suburban bedroom community. The Levitt firm began building a planned community consisting of pre-fabricated houses along cul-de-sacs and winding roads forming no specific pattern in the late 1940’s for returning veterans coming home from WW2. 30 homes went up a day in the neighborhood which is the first of four Levittowns built during this time in 3 different states and one in Puerto Rico. By the end of the decade a new plan was unveiled which the Levitt firm coined as “Ranch Style” which became the popular style there-after in Levittown though by this time tens of thousands of cookie cutter pre-fabs dominated in total monotony. Today the Ranch Style home is among the most commonly built and in existence in post war suburbs. Levittown is the first truly mass-produced suburb and regarded as the archetype for post war suburbs throughout the country. In the original rental agreement, there was a strict stipulation that homes not be sold to any families outside of the Caucasian race and it remained this way for years. Even today the neighborhood which is of course racially integrated is home to an extremely small population of non-whites.