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  2. Mitchel Air Force Base - Wikipedia

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    Mitchel Air Force Base, also known as Mitchel Field, was a United States Air Force base located on the Hempstead Plains of Long Island, New York, United States.Established in 1918 as Hazelhurst Aviation Field #2, the facility was renamed later that year as Mitchel Field in honor of former New York City Mayor John Purroy Mitchel, who was killed while training for the Air Service in Louisiana.

  3. Levittown, New York - Wikipedia

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    GNIS feature ID. 0955234. Website. www.levittown.li. Levittown is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in the Town of Hempstead in Nassau County, on Long Island, in New York. It is a suburb of New York City, located halfway between the villages of Hempstead and Farmingdale. The CDP had a total population of 51,758 at the time of the 2020 ...

  4. Levittown - Wikipedia

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    Levittown, New York – the first Levittown (built 1947–1951) Levittown, Pennsylvania – the second Levittown (1952–1958) Willingboro Township, New Jersey – originally and colloquially known as Levittown (started 1958) Levittown, Puerto Rico (1963) Bowie, Maryland (1964) Greenbriar, Virginia (1966-1971)

  5. Levitt & Sons - Wikipedia

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    Levitt & Sons was a real estate development company founded by Abraham Levitt and later managed by his son William Levitt. The company built the town of Levittown, New York. The company's designs and building practices transformed the home building industry and altered the north eastern landscape of the United States with massive suburban ...

  6. List of places in Nassau County, New York - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of places in Nassau County, New York. [1] Nassau County , on Long Island , became a county in the U.S. state of New York in 1899 after separating from Queens County . Included in the list are two cities , three towns , 64 incorporated villages , and 63 unincorporated hamlets whose names are used for overlapping Census-designated ...

  7. Fort Totten (Queens) - Wikipedia

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    Fort Totten is a former active United States Army installation in the New York City borough of Queens. It is located on the Willets Point peninsula on the north shore of Long Island. [3][4] Fort Totten is at the head of Little Neck Bay, where the East River widens to become Long Island Sound. [5]

  8. William Levitt - Wikipedia

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    William Jaird Levitt (February 11, 1907 – January 28, 1994) was an American real-estate developer and housing pioneer. As president of Levitt & Sons, he is widely credited as the father of modern American suburbia. In 1998 he was named one of Time Magazine 's " 100 Most Influential People of the 20th Century."

  9. Military Professional Resources Inc. - Wikipedia

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    Military Professional Resources Inc. L-3 MPRI was a provider of private military contractor services with customers that included the U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Department of State, U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, law enforcement agencies, foreign governments, government agencies, and commercial businesses.