Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thanks to the postwar Baby Boom and other factors, families in the '50s began moving to the suburbs. Levittown in Long Island, New ...
In 1950, 80% of men in Levittown commuted to Manhattan for work, The Guardian reported. Levittown in Long Island, New York, was built in 1947 as a suburban community for America's growing families.