Carle Place, NY Homes for Rent

Those who recall the post-World War II chapters of their American history textbooks know 1947 as the birthyear of the original Levittown, a sprawling and enduring blueprint for midcentury suburbia. Fewer history buffs know about the 600-household trial of that assembly-line building process conducted by Levitt & Sons in the hamlet of Carle Place in 1946, marketed toward returning veterans and standing a few miles from its more well-known cousin. In the decades following this first subdivision, rapid suburbanization spread, filling the square-mile hamlet with enough starter homes and shopping centers to support the post-war baby boom. Despite plenty of nods to its history, including a jumpy public school mascot that recalls the land's former name of Frog Hollow, Carle Place is far from stuck in the past. The hamlet’s 21st-century community enjoys next-street-over access to an outsized number of modernized commercial districts and Long Island commuter hubs while keeping its know-your-neighbor sensibility through an active civic association and the Carle Place Moms (And Dads) Facebook page. “If somebody asks for help, people volunteer. If you lose your dog and post it on the