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Every home in Levittown should be landmarked. It was the first American suburb and most original owners are veterans. Clearly this won’t happen because it’s idiotic.
I would be fine with one house in Levittown being landmarked: the ORIGINAL one, as in first one completed. And if it has-been modified in any way, too bad, lost your chance.
Now you designate it a historical landmark, and guess what, the town will increase property taxes on all the NIMBYs in order to provide funding to maintain said historical landmark
So sad
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Now you designate it a historical landmark, and guess what, the town will increase property taxes on all the NIMBYs in order to provide funding to maintain said historical landmark
So sad
NA it will end up like the home in Merrick that was being built. A sex offender and his wife where having it built. Community was outraged as the offender slept with a 12yr old IIRC. The house "mysteriously" burned down in middle of the night. This will eventually see the same fate, if the lawsuit is lost.
This same community also managed to plow through a landmark designation on a church recently. The property has been unoccupied for some time, and builders have been eyeing it for possible redevelopment for years. The original claim was that the church was part of the underground railroad, to which the owner replied that the church wasn't even built until 1905. Some other marginal story was concocted after that and sold to the board.
The church property still stands unoccupied and falling into disrepair... but at least nobody was able to build a house or a 7-11 there and add to the tax rolls!
I read this article when it was published a few weeks ago. It’s a damn joke and he should crush them in court. What a laugher, who cares if prior owner owned a lumber yard and someone was in ww2. Another owner was a local ship builder. The architect maybe built some crap that are historical this house isn’t it. No one even thought about landmark that piece of crap house until a developer bought it. I forget where I believe it was Roslyn a similar situation is going on.
Every home in Levittown should be landmarked. It was the first American suburb and most original owners are veterans. Clearly this won’t happen because it’s idiotic.
Don't get people started on Levittown. It was whites only when it opened. People may want to pull down these symbols of oppression.
"Levittown in Nassau County is a rather quaint hamlet that was planned and constructed from 1947 to 1951. Named after the firm Levitt & Sons, Inc. founded by Abraham Levitt, the settlement was built for returning World War II veterans and is today considered one of the first mass-produced suburbs in the country.
Levittown had a number of caveats that prevented certain demographics from even buying homes in the area. A clause in the original Levittown covenant prevented tenants from allowing non-Caucasians to use or occupy Levitt houses. The 1926 court case Corrigan v. Buckley ruled that racially restrictive covenants were legally binding documents that could prevent the selling of houses to Blacks. Even areas like Stuyvesant Town, Parkchester, and Addisleigh Park only accepted whites at first. In Levittown, Black veterans were unable to purchase homes, and the Levitts justified the clause by stating that it maintained the value of the properties, since most whites at the time preferred not to live in mixed communities."
Yeah burn down and cancel Levittown because it had whites only policy 70 or whatever years ago. Too bad for the non whites that live there now, they never shoulda moved there in the first place.
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