Miami, Florida City of Miami From top, left to right: Skyline of Downtown, Freedom Tower, Villa Vizcaya, Miami Tower, Virginia Key Beach, Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, American Airlines Arena, Port of Miami, the Moon over Miami Flag of Miami, Florida Flag Official seal of Miami, Florida Miami is positioned in Florida Miami - Miami Miami (/ma mi/; Spanish pronunciation: [mi ami]) is a seaport town/city at the southeastern corner of the U.S.
As the seat of Miami-Dade County, the municipality is the principal, central, and the most crowded city of the Miami urbane region and part of the second-most crowded metropolis in the southeastern United States. According to the U.S.
Enumeration Bureau, Miami's metro region is the eighth-most crowded and fourth-largest urban region in the U.S., with a populace of around 5.5 million. Miami is a primary center, and a prestige in finance, commerce, culture, media, entertainment, the arts, and global trade. In 2012, Miami was classified as an Alpha World City in the World Cities Study Group's inventory. In 2010, Miami ranked seventh in the United States in terms of finance, commerce, culture, entertainment, fashion, education, and other sectors.
It ranked 33rd among global cities. In 2008, Forbes periodical ranked Miami "America's Cleanest City", for its year-round good air character, vast green spaces, clean drinking water, clean streets, and citywide recycling programs. According to a 2009 UBS study of 73 world cities, Miami was ranked as the richest town/city in the United States, and the world's fifth-richest town/city in terms of purchasing power. Miami is nicknamed the "Capital of Latin America" and is the biggest city with a Cuban-American plurality. Downtown Miami is home to the biggest concentration of global banks in the United States, and many large nationwide and global companies. The Civic Center is a primary center for hospitals, research institutes, medical centers, and biotechnology industries.
For more than two decades, the Port of Miami, known as the "Cruise Capital of the World", has been the number one cruise passenger port in the world.
It accommodates some of the world's biggest cruise ships and operations, and is the busiest port in both passenger traffic and cruise lines. Metropolitan Miami is the primary tourism core in the American South, number two in the U.S.
After New York City and number 13 in the world, including the prominent destination of Miami Beach. Main articles: History of Miami and Timeline of Miami See also: National Register of Historic Places listings in Miami, Florida The Miami region was inhabited for thousands of years by indigenous Native American tribes.
The Miami region later became a site of fighting amid the Second Seminole War.
Miami is noted as "the only primary city in the United States conceived by a woman, Julia Tuttle", a small-town citrus grower and a wealthy Cleveland native.
The Miami region was better known as "Biscayne Bay Country" in the early years of its growth.
In the late 19th century, reports described the region as a promising wilderness. The region was also characterized as "one of the finest building sites in Florida." The Great Freeze of 1894 95 hastened Miami's growth, as the crops of the Miami region were the only ones in Florida that survived.
Julia Tuttle later convinced Henry Flagler, a barns tycoon, to grew his Florida East Coast Railway to the region, for which she became known as "the mother of Miami." Miami was officially incorporated as a town/city on July 28, 1896 with a populace of just over 300. It was titled for the close-by Miami River, derived from Mayaimi, the historic name of Lake Okeechobee. During the early 20th century, northerners were thriving to the city, and Miami prospered amid the 1920s with an increase in populace and infrastructure.
The collapse of the Florida territory boom of the 1920s, the 1926 Miami Hurricane, and the Great Depression in the 1930s slowed development.
When World War II began, Miami, well-situated on the southern coast of Florida, became a base for US defense against German submarines.
The war brought an increase in Miami's population; by 1940, 172,172 citizens lived in the city.
After Fidel Castro rose to power in Cuba in 1959, many wealthy Cubans sought refuge in Miami, further increasing the population.
In the 1980s and 1990s, South Florida weathered civil enigma related to drug wars, immigration from Haiti and Latin America, and the widespread destruction of Hurricane Andrew. Racial and cultural tensions were sometimes sparked, but the town/city developed in the latter half of the 20th century as a primary international, financial, and cultural center.
Miami and its urbane region interval from just over 1,000 inhabitants to nearly 5.5 million inhabitants in just 110 years (1896 2006).
Miami and its suburbs are positioned on a broad plain between the Florida Everglades to the west and Biscayne Bay to the east, which also extends from Florida Bay north to Lake Okeechobee.
The highest undulations are found along the coastal Miami Rock Ridge, whose substrate underlies most of the easterly Miami urbane region.
The chief portion of the town/city lies on the shores of Biscayne Bay which contains a several hundred natural and artificially created barrier islands, the biggest of which contains Miami Beach and South Beach.
View from one of the higher points in Miami, west of downtown.
The highest natural point in the town/city of Miami is in Coconut Grove, near the bay, along the Miami Rock Ridge at 24 feet (7.3 m) above sea level. The surface bedrock under the Miami region is called Miami oolite or Miami limestone.
Several alongside lines of reef formed along the edge of the submerged Florida plateau, stretching from the present Miami region to what is now the Dry Tortugas.
The region behind this reef line was in effect a large lagoon, and the Miami limestone formed throughout the region from the deposition of oolites and the shells of bryozoans.
Beneath the plain lies the Biscayne Aquifer, a natural underground origin of fresh water that extends from southern Palm Beach County to Florida Bay, with its highest point peaking around the metros/cities of Miami Springs and Hialeah.
Most of the Miami urbane region obtains its drinking water from this aquifer.
In terms of territory area, Miami is one of the smallest primary cities in the United States.
That means Miami comprises over 400,000 citizens in 35 square miles (91 km2), making it one of the most densely populated metros/cities in the United States, along with New York City, San Francisco, Boston, Chicago, and Philadelphia.
Downtown Miami Skyline (in 2014) as seen from the Rusty Pelican restaurant on Virginia Key.
Downtown Miami horizon (in 2008) as seen from South Beach.
Downtown Miami horizon (in 2009) as seen from the Port of Miami.
The Downtown Miami Historic District is the city's biggest historic district, with buildings ranging from 1896 to 1939 in the heart of Downtown.
Miami is partitioned into many different sections, roughly into North, South, West and Downtown.
The heart of the town/city is Downtown Miami and is technically on the easterly side of the city.
Just northwest of Downtown, is the Civic Center, which is Miami's center for hospitals, research institutes and biotechnology with hospitals such as Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami VA Hospital, and the University of Miami's Leonard M.
Coconut Grove was established in 1825 and is the locale of Miami's City Hall in Dinner Key, the Coconut Grove Playhouse, Coco - Walk, many eveningclubs, bars, restaurants and bohemian shops, and as such, is very prominent with small-town college students.
The side of Miami includes Little Havana, West Flagler, and Flagami, and is home to many of the city's traditionally immigrant neighborhoods.
Although at one time a mostly Jewish neighborhood, today Miami is home to immigrants from mostly Central America and Cuba, while the west central neighborhood of Allapattah is a multicultural improve of many ethnicities.
The northern side of Miami includes Midtown, a precinct with a great mix of range with many West Indians, Hispanics, European Americans, bohemians, and artists.
The wealthier inhabitants usually live in the northeastern part, in Midtown, the Design District, and the Upper East Side, with many sought after 1920s homes and home of the Mi - Mo Historic District, a style of architecture originated in Miami in the 1950s.
The northern side of Miami also has notable African American and Caribbean immigrant communities such as Little Haiti, Overtown (home of the Lyric Theater), and Liberty City.
Extremes range from 27 F ( 2.8 C) on February 3, 1917 to 100 F (38 C) on July 21, 1940. While Miami has never officially recorded snow flurry at any official weather station since records have been kept, snow flurries fell in some parts of Miami on January 19, 1977. The most likely time for Miami to be hit is amid the peak of the Cape Verde season, which is mid-August through the end of September. Although tornadoes are uncommon in the area, one hit in 1925 and again in 1997.
Miami is the 42nd-most crowded city in the United States.
The Miami urbane area, which includes Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties, had a combined populace of more than 5.5 million citizens , ranked seventh biggest in the United States, and is the biggest urbane region in the Southeastern United States.
As of 2008, the United Nations estimates that the Miami Urban Agglomeration is the 44th-largest in the world. As of 2010, those of African lineage accounted for 19.2% of Miami's population, which includes African Americans.
As of 2010, those of (non-Hispanic white) European lineage accounted for 11.9% of Miami's population.
As of 2010, those of Asian lineage accounted for 1.0% of Miami's population.
In 2004, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) reported that Miami had the highest proportion of foreign-born inhabitants of any primary city around the world (59%), followed by Toronto (50%).
In 1960, non-Hispanic caucasians represented 80% of Miami-Dade county's population. In 1970, the Enumeration Bureau reported Miami's populace as 45.3% Hispanic, 32.9% non-Hispanic White, and 22.7% Black. Miami's explosive populace growth has been driven by internal migration from other parts of the country, primarily up until the 1980s, as well as by immigration, primarily from the 1960s to the 1990s.
Today, immigration to Miami has slowed decidedly and Miami's expansion today is attributed greatly to its fast urbanization and high-rise construction, which has increased its inner town/city neighborhood populace densities, such as in Downtown, Brickell, and Edgewater, where one region in Downtown alone saw a 2,069% increase in populace in the 2010 Census.
The overall culture of Miami is heavily influenced by its large populace of Hispanics and blacks mainly from the Caribbean islands.
As of 2010, 70.2% of Miami's populace age five and over spoke only Spanish at home while 22.7% of the populace spoke English at home.
Cities, Miami has one of the highest proportions of inhabitants who speak languages other than English at home (74.55% in 2000). Christianity is the most prevalently practiced religion in Miami (68%), as stated to a 2014 study by the Pew Research Center, with 39% professing attendance at a range of churches that could be considered Protestant, and 27% professing Roman Catholic beliefs. followed by Judaism (8%); Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and a range of other religions have lesser followings; atheism or no self-identifying organized theological affiliation was practiced by 24%.
Organizations such as the Miami-Dade Salvation Army and its iconic Red Kettle Christmas Campaign, Hands On Miami, City Year Miami, Human Services Coalition of South Florida, and Citizens for a Better South Florida, among many other organizations have been working to engage Miamians in volunteerism.
As seen in 2006, the high-rise assembly in Miami has inspired prominent opinion of "Miami manhattanization" Brickell Avenue in Downtown Miami's Brickell Financial District Miami is a primary center of commerce, finance, and boasts a strong global company community.
According to the ranking of world metros/cities undertaken by the Globalization and World Cities Study Group & Network (Ga - WC) in 2010 and based on the level of existence of global corporate service organizations, Miami is considered a "Alpha minus world city". Miami has a Gross Metropolitan Product of $257 billion and is ranked 20th around the world in GMP, and 11th in the United States. Several large companies are headquartered in or around Miami, including but not limited to: Akerman Senterfitt, Alienware, Arquitectonica, Arrow Air, Bacardi, Benihana, Brightstar Corporation, Burger King, Celebrity Cruises, Carnival Corporation, Carnival Cruise Lines, Crispin Porter + Bogusky, Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company, Espirito Santo Financial Group, Fizber.com, Greenberg Traurig, Holland & Knight, Inktel Direct, Interval International, Lennar, Navarro Discount Pharmacies, Norwegian Cruise Lines, Oceania Cruises, Perry Ellis International, RCTV International, Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, Ryder Systems, Seabourn Cruise Line, Sedano's, Telefonica USA, Uni - MAS, Telemundo, Univision, U.S.
Because of its adjacency to Latin America, Miami serves as the command posts of Latin American operations for more than 1400 multinational corporations, including AIG, American Airlines, Cisco, Disney, Exxon, Fed - Ex, Kraft Foods, LEO Pharma Americas, Microsoft, Yahoo, Oracle, SBC Communications, Sony, Symantec, Visa International, and Wal-Mart. Miami is a primary tv manufacturing center, and the most meaningful city in the U.S.
In 2011, 85% of Telemundo's initial programming was filmed in Miami. Miami is also a primary music recording center, with the Sony Music Latin and Universal Music Latin Entertainment command posts in the city, along with many other lesser record labels.
Since 2001, Miami has been undergoing a large building boom with more than 50 high-rise buildings rising over 400 feet (122 m) assembled or presently under assembly in the city.
Miami's horizon is ranked third-most impressive in the U.S., behind New York City and Chicago, and 19th in the world as stated to the Almanac of Architecture and Design. The town/city presently has the eight tallest (as well as thirteen of the fourteen tallest) high-rise buildings in the state of Florida, with the tallest being the 789-foot (240 m) Four Seasons Hotel & Tower. During this period, the town/city had well over a hundred allowed high-rise assembly projects in which 50 were actually built. In 2007, however, the housing market crashed causing lots of foreclosures on homes. This rapid high-rise construction, has led to fast populace growth in the city's inner neighborhoods, primarily in Downtown, Brickell and Edgewater, with these neighborhoods becoming the fastest-growing areas in the city.
The Miami region ranks 8th in the country in foreclosures. In 2011, Forbes periodical titled Miami the second-most miserable town/city in the United States due to its high foreclosure rate and past decade of corruption among enhance officials. In 2012, Forbes periodical titled Miami the most miserable town/city in the United States because of a crippling housing crisis that has cost multitudes of inhabitants their homes and jobs.
The metro region has one of the highest violent crime rates in the nation and workers face lengthy daily commutes. Like other metro areas in the United States, crime in Miami is localized to specific neighborhoods. Miami International Airport and Port - Miami are among the nation's busiest ports of entry, especially for cargo from South America and the Caribbean.
The Port of Miami is the world's busiest cruise port, and MIA is the busiest airport in Florida, and the biggest gateway between the United States and Latin America. Additionally, the town/city has the biggest concentration of global banks in the country, primarily along Brickell Avenue in Brickell, Miami's financial district.
Miami was also the host town/city of the 2003 Free Trade Area of the Americas negotiations, and is one of the dominant candidates to turn into the trading bloc's headquarters.
It is the center of Miami's burgeoning biotechnology sectors. Annual affairs such as the Sony Ericsson Open, Art Basel, Winter Music Conference, South Beach Wine & Food Festival, and Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Miami attract millions to the metropolis every year.
Miami is the home to the National Hurricane Center and the command posts of the United States Southern Command, responsible for military operations in Central and South America.
In addition to these part s, Miami is also an industrialized center, especially for contemporary quarrying and warehousing.
Enumeration Bureau, in 2004, Miami had the third highest incidence of family incomes below the federal poverty line in the United States, making it the third poorest town/city in the USA, behind only Detroit, Michigan (ranked #1) and El Paso, Texas (ranked #2).
Miami is also one of the very several metros/cities where its small-town government went bankrupt, in 2001. However, since that time, Miami has experienced a revival: in 2008, Miami was ranked as "America's Cleanest City" as stated to Forbes for its year-round good air character, vast green spaces, clean drinking water, clean streets and citywide recycling programs. In a 2009 UBS study of 73 world cities, Miami was ranked as the richest town/city in the United States (of four U.S.
City of Miami 4,309 In addition to such annual celebrations like Calle Ocho Festival and Carnaval Miami, Miami is home to many entertainment venues, theaters, exhibitions, parks and performing arts centers.
The newest addition to the Miami arts scene is the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, the second-largest performing arts center in the United States after the Lincoln Center in New York City, and is the home of the Florida Grand Opera.
Other performing arts venues in Miami include the Gusman Center for the Performing Arts, Coconut Grove Playhouse, Colony Theatre, Lincoln Theatre, New World Center, Actor's Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre, Jackie Gleason Theatre, Manuel Artime Theater, Ring Theatre, Playground Theatre, Wertheim Performing Arts Center, the Fair Expo Center and the Bayfront Park Amphitheater for outside music affairs.
Some of these include the Florida Grand Opera, FIU School of Music, Frost School of Music, Miami City Ballet, Miami Conservatory, Miami Wind Symphony, New World School of the Arts, New World Symphony Orchestra, as well as the music, theater and art schools of the city's many universities and schools.
Miami is also a primary fashion center, home to models and some of the top modeling agencies in the world.
Miami is also host to many fashion shows and affairs, including the annual Miami Fashion Week and the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Miami held in the Wynwood Art District. These include the Frost Art Museum, History - Miami, Miami Art Museum, Miami Children's Museum, Miami Science Museum, Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, and the Miami-Dade Cultural Center, home of the Miami Main Library.
Miami is also the home of the world's biggest art exhibition, dubbed the "Olympics of Art", Art Basel Miami.
Cubans brought the conga and rumba, while Haitians and the rest of the French West Indies have brought kompa and zouk to Miami from their homelands instantly popularizing them in American culture.
In the early 1970s, the Miami disco sound came to life with TK Records, featuring the music of KC and the Sunshine Band, with such hits as "Get Down Tonight", "(Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake Your Booty" and "That's the Way (I Like It)"; and the Latin-American disco group, Foxy (band), with their hit singles "Get Off" and "Hot Number". Miami-area natives George Mc - Crae and Teri De - Sario were also prominent music artists amid the 1970s disco era.
The Bee Gees moved to Miami in 1975 and have lived here ever since then. Miami-influenced, Gloria Estefan and the Miami Sound Machine, hit the prominent music scene with their Cuban-oriented sound and had hits in the 1980s with "Conga" and "Bad Boys". Miami is also considered a "hot spot" for dance music, Freestyle, a style of dance music prominent in the 1980s and 90s was heavily influenced by Electro, hip-hop, and disco. Many prominent Freestyle acts such as Pretty Tony, Debbie Deb, Stevie B, and Expose, originated in Miami.
Also, ska punk band Against All Authority is from Miami, and rock/metal bands Nonpoint and Marilyn Manson each formed in neighboring Fort Lauderdale. Cuban American female recording artist, Ana Cristina, was born in Miami in 1985. The 1980s and '90s also brought the genre of high energy Miami Bass to dance floors and car subwoofers throughout the country. Miami Bass spawned artists like 2 Live Crew (featuring Uncle Luke), 95 South, Tag Team, 69 Boyz, Quad City DJ's, and Freak Nasty.
Miami is also home to a vibrant techno and dance scene and hosts the Winter Music Conference, the biggest dance event in the world, Ultra Music Festival and many electronica music-themed celebrations and festivals.
They include Trick Daddy, Rick Ross, Trina, Pitbull, Pretty Ricky, and the Miami Bass group 2 Live Crew.
The cuisine of Miami is a reflection of its diverse population, with a heavy influence especially from Caribbean cuisine and from Latin American cuisine.
Floribbean cuisine is widely available throughout Miami and South Florida, and can be found in restaurant chains such as Pollo Tropical.
Today, these are part of the small-town culture, and can be found throughout the town/city in window cafes, especially outside of supermarkets and restaurants. Restaurants such as Versailles restaurant in Little Havana are landmark eateries of Miami.
Located on the Atlantic Ocean, and with a long history as a seaport, Miami is also known for its seafood, with many seafood restaurants positioned along the Miami River, and in and around Biscayne Bay. Miami is also the home of restaurant chains such as Burger King, Tony Roma's and Benihana.
The Miami region has a unique dialect, (commonly called the "Miami accent") which is widely spoken.
The dialect advanced among second- or third-generation Hispanics, including Cuban-Americans, whose first language was English (though some non-Hispanic white, black, and other competitions who were born and raised the Miami region tend to adopt it as well.) It is based on a fairly standard American accent but with some shifts very similar to dialects in the Mid-Atlantic (especially the New York region dialect, Northern New Jersey English, and New York Latino English.) Unlike Virginia Piedmont, Coastal Southern American, and Northeast American dialects and Florida Cracker dialect (see section below), "Miami accent" is rhotic; it also incorporates a rhythm and pronunciation heavily influenced by Spanish (wherein rhythm is syllable-timed). However, this is a native dialect of English, not learner English or interlanguage; it is possible to differentiate this range from an interlanguage spoken by second-language speakers in that "Miami accent" does not generally display the following features: there is no addition of / / before initial consonant clusters with /s/, speakers do not confuse of /d / with /j/, (e.g., Yale with jail), and /r/ and /rr/ are pronounced as alveolar approximant freshwater alveolar tap or alveolar trill in Spanish. See also: List of films and tv shows set in Miami and Miami (song) The video game Scarface: The World Is Yours takes place in Miami.
American Airlines Arena, home of the Miami Heat Miami's chief four sports squads are the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League, the Miami Heat of the National Basketball Association, the Miami Marlins of Major League Baseball, and the Florida Panthers of the National Hockey League.
As well as having all four primary experienced teams, Miami is also home to the Major League Soccer expansion team led by David Beckham, Sony Ericsson Open for experienced tennis, various greyhound racing tracks, marinas, jai alai venues, and golf courses.
The town/city streets has hosted experienced auto competitions, the Miami Indy Challenge and later the Grand Prix Americas.
The Heat and the Marlins play inside Miami's town/city limits.
The Heat play at the American Airlines Arena in Downtown Miami.
The Miami Marlins home ballpark is Marlins Park, positioned in Little Havana on the site of the old Orange Bowl stadium.
The Miami Dolphins play at Hard Rock Stadium in suburban Miami Gardens.
Miami FC of the North American Soccer League, the second tier of the American soccer pyramid, play at FIU Stadium, and the Fort Lauderdale Strikers play at Lockhart Stadium in close-by Fort Lauderdale, also in the North American Soccer League.
Miami is also home to Paso Fino horses, where competitions are held at Tropical Park Equestrian Center.
The stadium has also hosted the Super Bowl; the Miami metro region has hosted the game a total of ten times (five Super Bowls at the current Hard Rock Stadium, including Super Bowl XLI and five at the Miami Orange Bowl), tying New Orleans for the most games. Miami is also the home of many college sports teams.
The two biggest are the University of Miami Hurricanes, whose football team plays at Hard Rock Stadium, and Florida International University Panthers whose football team plays at FIU Stadium.
The following table shows the Miami region major experienced teams and Division I squads with an average attendance of more than 10,000: Miami Dolphins Football National Football League Hard Rock Stadium (80,120) 70,035 Super Bowl (2) 1972, 1973 Miami Marlins Baseball Major League Baseball Marlins Park (36,742) 21,386 World Series (2) 1997, 2003 Miami Heat Basketball National Basketball Association American Airlines Arena (19,600) 19,710 NBA Finals (3) 2006, 2012, 2013 Miami MLS team Soccer Major League Soccer Miami MLS Stadium None None The Barnacle Historic State Park, assembled in 1891 in Miami's Coconut Grove neighborhood.
Other prominent cultural destinations in or near Miami include Zoo Miami, Jungle Island, Miami Seaquarium, Monkey Jungle, Coral Castle, St.
Miami City Hall at Dinner Key in Coconut Grove.
Main article: Government of the City of Miami The government of the City of Miami (proper) uses the mayor-commissioner type of system.
The town/city commission constitutes the governing body with powers to pass ordinances, adopt regulations, and exercise all powers conferred upon the town/city in the town/city charter.
The City of Miami is governed by Mayor Tomas Regalado and 5 City commissioners that oversee the five districts in the city.
The commission's regular meetings are held at Miami City Hall, which is positioned at 3500 Pan American Drive on Dinner Key in the neighborhood of Coconut Grove .
Tomas Regalado Mayor of the City of Miami Brickell, Coconut Grove, Coral Way, Downtown Miami, Edgewater, Midtown Miami, Omni, Park West and the Upper Eastside Miami Senior High School, Miami's earliest continuously used high school structure Florida International University has the biggest enrollment of any college in South Florida, and is one of the state's major research universities.
Public schools in Miami are governed by Miami-Dade County Public Schools, which is the biggest school precinct in Florida and the fourth-largest in the United States.
Miami is home to some of the nation's best high schools, such as Design and Architecture High School, ranked the nation's best magnet school, MAST Academy, Coral Reef High School, ranked 20th-best enhance high school in the U.S., Miami Palmetto High School, and the New World School of the Arts. M-DCPS is also one of a several enhance school districts in the United States to offer optional bilingual education in Spanish, French, German, Haitian Creole, and Mandarin Chinese.
Miami is home to a several well-known Roman Catholic, Jewish and non-denominational private schools.
The Archdiocese of Miami operates the city's Catholic private schools, which include: St.
Non-denominational private schools in Miami are Ransom Everglades, Gulliver Preparatory School, and Miami Country Day School.
Founded in 1925, the University of Miami is the earliest college in Florida south of Winter Park.
Miami has over 200,000 students enrolled in small-town universities and universities, placing it seventh in the country in per capita college enrollment.
Colleges and universities in and around Miami: Miami International University of Art & Design (private) University of Miami (private) In 2011, Miami was ranked as the sixth-most-read town/city in the U.S.
Miami is also home to both for-profit and nonprofit organizations that offer a range of experienced training and other, related educational programs.
Miami has one of the biggest tv markets in the country and the second biggest in the state of Florida. Miami has a several major newspapers, the chief and biggest journal being The Miami Herald.
The Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald are Miami's and South Florida's main, primary and biggest newspapers.
The papers left their longtime home in downtown Miami in 2013.
Other primary newspapers include Miami Today, headquartered in Brickell, Miami New Times, headquartered in Midtown, Miami Sun Post, South Florida Business Journal, Miami Times, and Biscayne Boulevard Times.
The Miami Herald is Miami's major journal with over a million readers and is headquartered in Downtown in Herald Plaza.
Several other student newspapers from the small-town universities, such as the earliest, the University of Miami's The Miami Hurricane, Florida International University's The Beacon, Miami-Dade College's The Metropolis, Barry University's The Buccaneer, amongst others.
A number of magazines circulate throughout the greater Miami area, including Miami Monthly, Southeast Florida's only city/regional; Ocean Drive, a hot-spot civil scene glossy, and South Florida Business Leader.
Miami is also the command posts and chief manufacturing town/city of many of the world's biggest tv networks, record label companies, transmitting companies and manufacturing facilities, such as Telemundo, Tele - Futura, Galavision, Mega TV, Univision, Univision Communications, Inc., Universal Music Latin Entertainment, RCTV International and Sunbeam Television.
Miami is the twelfth biggest radio market and the seventeenth biggest tv market in the United States.
Television stations serving the Miami region include: WAMI (Telefutura), WBFS (My Network TV), WSFL (The CW), WFOR (CBS), WHFT (TBN), WLTV (Univision), WPLG (ABC), WPXM (Ion), WSCV (Telemundo), WSVN (Fox), WTVJ (NBC), WPBT (PBS), and WLRN (also PBS).
Miami International Airport serves as the major international airport of the Greater Miami Area.
One of the busiest global airports in the world, Miami International Airport caters to over 35 million passengers a year.
Miami International is the busiest airport in Florida, and is the United States' second-largest global port of entry for foreign air passengers behind New York's John F.
Alternatively, close-by Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport also serves commercial traffic in the Miami area. Opa-locka Airport in Opa-locka and Kendall-Tamiami Airport in an unincorporated region serve general aviation traffic in the Miami area.
The Royal Caribbean International command posts at the Port of Miami.
Miami is home to one of the biggest ports in the United States, the Port - Miami.
Miami has the world's biggest amount of cruise line headquarters, home to: Carnival Cruise Lines, Celebrity Cruises, Norwegian Cruise Line, Oceania Cruises, and Royal Caribbean International.
The Miami Metrorail is the city's rapid transit fitness and joins the city's central core with its outlying suburbs Tri-Rail is Miami's commuter rail that runs north-south from Miami's suburbs in West Palm Beach to Miami International Airport.
Public transit in Miami is directed by Miami-Dade Transit and SFRTA, and includes commuter rail (Tri-Rail), heavy-rail rapid transit (Metrorail), an elevated citizens mover (Metromover), and buses (Metrobus).
Miami has Florida's highest transit ridership as about 17% of Miamians use transit on a daily basis. Metrorail joins the urban suburbs of Hialeah, Medley, and inner-city Miami with suburban The Roads, Coconut Grove, Coral Gables, South Miami and urban Kendall via the central company districts of Miami International Airport, the Civic Center, and Downtown.
A free, elevated citizens mover, Metromover, operates 21 stations on three different lines in greater Downtown Miami, with a station at roughly every two blocks of Downtown and Brickell.
Tri-Rail, a commuter rail fitness directed by the South Florida Regional Transportation Authority (SFRTA), runs from Miami International Airport northward to West Palm Beach, making eighteen stops throughout Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach counties.
Construction is presently underway on the Miami Intermodal Center and Miami Central Station, a massive transit hub servicing Metrorail, Amtrak, Tri-Rail, Metrobus, Greyhound Lines, taxis, rental cars, MIA Mover, private automobiles, bicycles and pedestrians adjoining to Miami International Airport.
Completion of the Miami Intermodal Center is expected to be instead of by winter 2011, and will serve over 150,000 commuters and travelers in the Miami area.
Bay - Link would connect Downtown with South Beach, and the Miami Streetcar would connect Downtown with Midtown.
Miami is the southern end of Amtrak's Atlantic Coast services, running two lines, the Silver Meteor and the Silver Star, both terminating in New York City.
Current assembly of the Miami Central Station will move all Amtrak operations from its current out-of-the-way locale to a centralized locale with Metrorail, MIA Mover, Tri-Rail, Miami International Airport, and the Miami Intermodal Center all inside the same station closer to Downtown.
Florida High Speed Rail was a proposed government backed high-speed rail fitness that would have connected Miami, Orlando, and Tampa.
The Venetian Causeway (left) and Mac - Arthur Causeway (right) connect Downtown and South Beach, Miami Beach.
Miami's road fitness is based along the numerical "Miami Grid" where Flagler Street forms the east-west baseline and Miami Avenue forms the north-south meridian.
The corner of Flagler Street and Miami Avenue is in the middle of Downtown in front of the Downtown Macy's (formerly the Burdine's headquarters).
The Miami grid is primarily numerical so that, for example, all street addresses north of Flagler Street and west of Miami Avenue have "NW" in their address.
All streets and avenues in Miami-Dade County follow the Miami Grid, with a several exceptions, most prominently Coral Gables, Hialeah, Coconut Grove and Miami Beach.
Some of the primary Florida State Roads (and their common names) serving Miami are: Route 1/Pinecrest & South Miami The northernmost causeway, the Broad Causeway, is the smallest of Miami's six causeways, and joins North Miami with Bal Harbour.
In 2007, Miami was identified as having the rudest drivers in the United States, the second year in a row to have been cited, in a poll commissioned by automobile club Auto - Vantage. Miami is also persistently ranked as one of the most dangerous metros/cities in the United States for pedestrians. In recent years the town/city government, under Mayor Manny Diaz, has taken an ambitious stance in support of bicycling in Miami for both recreation and commuting.
In 2010, Miami was ranked as the 44th-most bike-friendly town/city in the US as stated to Bicycling Magazine. A 2011 study by Walk Score ranked Miami the eighth-most walkable of the fifty biggest cities in the United States, but a 2013 survey by Travel + Leisure ranked Miami 34th for "public transit and pedestrian friendliness." National Register of Historic Places listings in Miami, Florida Terrestrial globe.svg - Geography portal North America 368x348.png - North America portal Flag of the United States.svg - United States portal Flag of Florida.svg - Florida portal Seal of Miami, Florida.svg - Miami portal Flag of Cross of Burgundy.svg - New Spain portal Official records for Miami were kept at the Lemon City from September 1895 to November 1900, the Miami COOP from December 1900 to May 1911, the Weather Bureau Office from June 1911 to February 1937, at various locations in and around the town/city from March 1937 to July 1942, and at Miami Int'l since August 1942.
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The snow flurries in Miami will be only an asterisk in the record books since they didn't fall on any of the National Weather Service's recording stations in the area, but they were genuine." "Florida officially recorded snow for the first time yesterday in Palm Beach County, 65 miles north of Miami, and even that town/city had flurries, although not at the official stations at its airport or close-by Coral Gables." "Vulnerable cities: Miami, Florida".
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