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Levittown

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When I was a little boy growing up in Forest City, I lived near the “big city” of Levittown.  Built in the late 1940s by William Levitt (who named the town in New York and its sister in Pennsylvania after himself), it was to be the new home for the returning military veterans of World War II. You see, Levittown was promising them affordable housing- with no down payment required.

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