Asphalt Paving in Levittown, NY

Levittown is the iconic postwar suburb — built by Levitt & Sons starting in 1947 on the flat Hempstead Plains with over 17,000 nearly identical homes. The original Cape Cod design included a single-car driveway paved with minimal asphalt over little base material. Seventy-plus years later, these driveways have been expanded, overlaid, patched, and extended to accommodate modern multi-car families — but most sit on the same inadequate base that was installed when the homes were built.

Brothers Paving has paved more Levittown driveways than we can count, and the pattern is consistent: the original 2 to 3 inches of base material was never designed for today's vehicle weights. When we tear out a Levittown driveway, we typically find multiple asphalt layers totaling 4 to 5 inches sitting on virtually no aggregate base — the asphalt was laid directly on the sandy outwash soil. No wonder these driveways crack, settle, and develop potholes.

Levittown's flat terrain sits on sandy glacial outwash that drains well but provides minimal structural support. This is actually an advantage for reconstruction — we can excavate, install a proper 6 to 8 inch compacted DGA base, and build a driveway that performs correctly for the first time in the property's history. The result is dramatic: a smooth, level surface that sheds water properly, handles heavy vehicles without flexing, and maintains its integrity through winter after winter.

Levittown's real estate market is active, with many buyers seeking updated homes in this convenient central Nassau location. A professionally paved driveway is one of the most cost-effective curb appeal improvements a Levittown homeowner can make — especially when replacing one of the community's notoriously deteriorated original driveways.