William Levitt built the homes quickly during the days that followed World War II, finishing, on average, one house every two hours using a Henry Ford-like assembly line process.
Levittown, Long Island, was the first housing development designed to use radiant heating. The houses all looked alike, and everyone who lived there was the same age. Sociologists have written books about Levittown, because the development birthed the first mass-produced homes in America, about 10,000 of them. Even though we were just a couple of suburban kids, anything seemed possible back then.īilly Joel lived in Levittown, New York, which is right next to Hicksville. He turned to me and proclaimed that he would some day be more famous than Herman was at the time. We were about 14 years old at the time, and he was singing a brand new Herman’s Hermits song while tapping the tune on his desk with the eraser ends of two yellow pencils. I clearly remember sitting next to Billy Joel in biology class. Growing up in Hicksville, Long Island (don’t laugh!), I spent a good part of junior and senior high school sharing a classroom with Billy Joel, now the superstar ‘Piano Man.’ That town is not only the site of my single brush with musical fame but, oddly enough, also my connection to the place that introduced American consumers to a revolution in comfort: radiant heating systems. A copper company’s ad touts the cozy, inviting floors that radiant heat, carried by copper tubing, can provide on a snowy winter day.
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