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just found this quite by accident... lived in levittown all my life and i have always loved being here...needless to say we were robbed once while we all slept and the guy that did it was white and living in an appt in levittown...we have also had many block parties and my neighbors are great and having lived in florida for one year i missed the social aspect of being able to walk across the street and borrow sugar from a neighbor and have a cup tea without being worried about when my neighbors will pick up and move (florida is very transient) so 47 years i lived here and my husband also...my 4 children went to levittown schools which have improved so greatly i cant even compare the education that my children have gotten to what my husband and i have...so we have no basement cos we go outside and socialize and we have smaller kitchens but thats is always where the party is no matter how small and it makes so many great memories and the bathroom situation ,,,i have 3 and they are not that small except the powder room....there are many levittown homes as big as mine, my dad built the dormer in 1957 and another one in 1962 and another in 1983 and when we wanted to go bigger cos we were all living together ( including 5 adopted children, many races included) the town denied us and years later there are so many homes bigger than ours that even have upper attic space, what you can do with a levit house is amazing!!!! taxes are high but you will find many owner like ourselves who have never left and have alot of pride in levittown...a side note back to the 5 adopted children a new neighbor in 1975 almost did not buy cos he saw my brother who is afro-american with a boom box by his ear and almost did not buy cos of that...they did anyway when they found out our family was predominantly white and they have never been neighbors that i liked....so for the most part levittown should not have a bad rap it has alot of things wonderful about and we are very defensive of this...once at a garden city game they showed with white trash bags on their bodies to signify well....white trash....ha ha thats is so funny cos in any town anywhere on long island you will find someone who grew up in levittown that loved it and has great memories and they are trying to recreate that feeling in their own towns....my father just passed at 80years old now he grew up in ridge and my mom got letters from there but the letters she got from old neighbors in levittown were so many and filled with wonderful stories of watching t.v on the front lawn and parties and snowball fights and helping each other build things on the houses....levittown is one of the best places to bring up kids and no one can convince me otherwise........true levittonian.....tracy
Completely agree with you on this...great community !!!
I am assuming you are older than me. North Bellmore has drastically changed from the time I was a little kid until I got older. Now it's just really bad, so bad, I couldn't take it. It's sad to see the place where your roots are and your home for more than half your life, turn to sh*t right before your eyes.
Anyway, a little off topic. This thread was about levittown. I like L-town, great place.
Since when is North Bellmore bad? It's a lot nicer than Levittown, even though Levittown is perfectly safe.
mepham is filled with druggies. there is a lot gang-related activity. I don't care for it.
Every school has druggies. EVERY SCHOOL HAS DRUGGIES.
The gang activity is the shocker, I wasn't aware of gangsta activities in N. Bellmore...Seems like it's just about everywhere else, maybe I shouldn't be surprised.
It's admittedly kind of hard to avoid the gang activity most places on Long Island.
I haven't heard of anything too bad in N. Bellmore though.
I'm guessing the gangs don't have as much influence/power as in other places such as Hempstead.
In terms of druggies, druggies are everywhere.
Which school district has a greater percentage of druggies?
Cold Spring Harbor or South Huntington?
From attending South Huntington schools and from what I know of CSH, both probably have very similar percentages.
You have your kids who are inclined to participating in illicit activities and your kids who wouldn't do such things...
Most people would probably guess South Huntington though.
There isn't even anything close to gang activity in North Bellmore, JdAwG is clueless.
Actually, there is a little gang activity in N Bellmore that I am fully aware of....but it is a very minor issue and probably no more than most other areas of the same reputation. JDawg paints N. Bellmore way worse than it really is.
mepham is filled with druggies. there is a lot gang-related activity. I don't care for it.
Wasn't Mepham the High School where some kids on one of the teams were taken to a camp on a school trip and the older boys sodomized the younger ones with broomsticks, etc., as part of a hazing ritual? I think this was a couple of years back and this sodomy/hazing ritual was actually a tradition for this sports team for several years until one kid got internal injuries to his anus and the story got out. Ew!
PS: Just as a note to people not familiar with the area, Mepham is not in Levittown, it is in Bellmore.
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Completely agree with you on this...great community !!!
