first “Levittown” was on Long Island, and it had 17,400 houses with eighty-two thousand residents. New York City families waited in line for days to purchase homes in Levittown, with fourteen hundred contracts being drawn up on a single day in 1949.115 And each and every one of them was for a white family. Levittown leases included a clause that read, “The tenant agrees not to permit the premises to be used or occupied by any person other than members of the Caucasian race.”
