Miami Beach, Florida "Miami Beach"
See also: South Beach, Mid-Beach, North Beach (Miami Beach), and North Miami Beach Miami Beach, Florida City of Miami Beach Southern portion of Miami Beach with downtown Miami in background Southern portion of Miami Beach with downtown Miami in background Official seal of Miami Beach, Florida Miami Beach is a coastal resort town/city in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States.
It was incorporated on March 26, 1915. The municipality is positioned on natural and man-made barrier islands between the Atlantic Ocean and Biscayne Bay, the latter of which separates the Beach from Miami.
The neighborhood of South Beach, comprising the southernmost 2.5 square miles (6.5 km2) of Miami Beach, along with downtown Miami and the Port of Miami, collectively form the commercial center of South Florida. As of the 2010 census, Miami Beach had a total populace of 87,779. It has been one of America's pre-eminent beach resorts since the early 20th century.
In 1979, Miami Beach's Art Deco Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Miami Beach is governed by a ceremonial mayor and six commissioners.
See also: Timeline of Miami Beach, Florida The next step in the evolution of the future Miami Beach was the planting of a coconut plantation along the shore in the 1880s by New Jersey company doers Ezra Osborn and Elnathan Field, but this was a floundered venture.
Collins, who accomplished success by buying out other partners and planting different crops, prominently avocados, on the territory that would later turn into Miami Beach.
Meanwhile, athwart Biscayne Bay, the City of Miami was established in 1896 with the arrival of the barns , and advanced further as a port when the shipping channel of Government Cut was created in 1905, cutting off Fisher Island from the south end of the Miami Beach peninsula.
Until then, the beach here was only the destination for day-trips by ferry from Miami, athwart the bay.
By 1912, Collins and Pancoast were working together to clear the land, plant crops, supervise the assembly of canals to get their avocado crop to market, and set up the Miami Beach Improvement Company. There were bath homes and food stands, but no hotel until Brown's Hotel was assembled in 1915 (still standing, at 112 Ocean Drive).
Fisher helped by organizing an annual speed boat regatta, and by promoting Miami Beach as an Atlantic City-style playground and winter retreat for the wealthy.
The Town of Miami Beach was chartered on March 26, 1915; it interval to turn into a City in 1917.
Even after the town was incorporated in 1915 under the name of Miami Beach, many visitors thought of the beach strip as Alton Beach, indicating just how well Fisher had advertised his interests there.
The Lummus property was called Ocean Beach, with only the Collins interests previously referred to as Miami Beach. Carl Fisher was the chief promoter of Miami Beach's evolution in the 1920s as the site for wealthy industrialists from the north and Midwest to and build their winter homes here.
In the 1920s, Fisher and the rest created much of Miami Beach as landfill by dredging Biscayne Bay; this man-made territory includes Star, Palm, and Hibiscus Islands, the Sunset Islands, much of Normandy Isle, and all of the Venetian Islands except Belle Isle.
The Miami Beach peninsula became an island in April 1925 when Haulover Cut was opened, connecting the ocean to the bay, north of present-day Bal Harbour.
The great 1926 Miami hurricane put an end to this prosperous era of the Florida Boom, but in the 1930s Miami Beach still thriving tourists, and investors constructed the mostly small-scale, stucco hotels and rooming homes, for cyclic rental, that comprise much of the present "Art Deco" historic district.
Post World War II economic expansion brought a wave of immigrants to South Florida from the Northern United States, which decidedly increased the populace in Miami Beach inside a several decades.
In 2017, one study titled zipcode 33109 in Miami Beach as having the 4th most expensive home revenue in the United States. The iconic Ocean Drive of Miami Beach with many Art Deco style hotels.
South Beach (also known as So - Be, or simply the Beach), the region from Biscayne Street (also known as South Pointe Drive) one block south of 1st Street to about 23rd Street, is one of the more prominent areas of Miami Beach.
Topless sunbathing by women is illegal, but is officially tolerated on South Beach. Before the TV show Miami Vice helped make the region popular, So - Be was under urban blight, with vacant buildings and a high crime rate.
Miami Beach, especially Ocean Drive of what is now the Art Deco District, was also featured prominently in the 1983 feature film Scarface and the 1996 comedy The Birdcage.
The New World Symphony Orchestra is based in Miami Beach, under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas.
Miami Beach is home to a number of Orthodox Jewish communities with a network of well-established Jewish churchs and yeshivas, the first of which being the Landow Yeshiva, a Chabad institution in operation for over 30 years.
Till his death in 1991, the Nobel laureate writer Isaac Bashevis Singer lived in the northern end of Miami Beach and breakfasted often at Sheldon's drugstore on Harding Avenue.
There are a number of kosher restaurants and even kollels for post-graduate Talmudic scholars, such as the Miami Beach Community Kollel.
Miami Beach had roughly 60,000 citizens in Jewish homeholds, 62 percent of the total population, in 1982, but only 16,500, or 19 percent of the population, in 2004, said Ira Sheskin, a demographer at the University of Miami who conducts surveys once a decade. The Miami Beach Jewish improve had decreased in size by 1994 due to migration to wealthier areas and an aging of the population. Miami Beach is home to the Holocaust Memorial on Miami Beach.
On December 3, 2013, a several buildings in Miami Beach including a Jewish Women's prayer center were found vandalized with hate messages such as "kkk".
After decades of economic and civil decline, an influx of gays and lesbians moving to South Beach in the late-1980s to mid-1990s helped contribute to Miami Beach's revitalization.
The newcomers purchased and restored dilapidated Art Deco hotels and clubs, started various businesses, and assembled political power in town/city and county government. As South Beach became more prominent as a nationwide and global tourist destination, there have been occasional clashes between cultures and disputes about whether South Beach is as "gay-friendly" as it once was. Miami Beach is home to various gay bars and gay-specific affairs, and five service and resource organizations.
The passage of progressive civil rights laws, election of outspokenly pro-gay Miami Beach Mayor Matti Bower, and the introduction of Miami Beach's Gay Pride Celebration, have reinvigorated the small-town LGBT improve in recent years, which some argued had experienced a diminish in the late 2000s. Some instances of Miami Beach Police brutality against gay men have been at odds with Miami Beach's longstanding image as a welcoming place for gay citizens . Miami Beach is home to some of the country's biggest fundraisers that benefit both small-town and nationwide LGBT nonprofits.
As of 2011, some of the biggest LGBT affairs in Miami Beach are: In 2008, the new Miami Beach Mayor Matti Bower created a Gay Business Development Ad Hoc Committee, with a mission to bring recommendations to the Mayor and City Commission on initiatives to be implemented and supported by the town/city regarding a range of issues to ensure the welfare and future of the Miami Beach LGBT community.
While being a gay mecca of the 1980s and 1990s, Miami Beach never had a town/city sanctioned Gay Pride Parade until April 2009. With strong support from the newly propel mayor Matti Bower, Miami Beach had its first Gay Pride Festival in April 2009. It is now an annual event.
In 2009, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) began looking into instances of Miami Beach Police Department (MBPD) targeting gay men for harassment. In February 2010, the ACLU announced that it will sue the City of Miami Beach for an ongoing targeting and arrests of gay men in public. According to the ACLU, Miami Beach police have a history of arresting gay men for simply looking "too gay". The incidents between gay men and MBPD resulted in negative publicity for the city. At the meeting with the small-town gay leaders, Miami Beach Police Chief Carlos Noriega claimed that the incidents were isolated, and promised increased range training for police officers.
In January 2010, Miami Beach passed a revised Human Rights Ordinance that strengthens enforcement of already existing human rights laws and adds protections for transgender citizens , making Miami Beach's human rights laws some of the most progressive in the state. Both inhabitants of, and visitors to, Miami Beach have been able to register as domestic partners since 2004; in 2008 this benefit was extended to all of Miami-Dade County. In 2010, the Miami-Dade Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce, with support from the City of Miami Beach, opened an LGBT Visitor Center at Miami Beach's Old City Hall.
Each December, the City of Miami Beach hosts Art Basel Miami Beach, one of the biggest art shows in the United States.
Art Basel Miami Beach, the sister event to the Art Basel event held each June in Basel, Switzerland, combines an global selection of top arcades with a program of special exhibitions, parties and crossover affairs featuring music, film, architecture and design.
Exhibition sites are positioned in the city's Art Deco District, and ancillary affairs are scattered throughout the greater Miami urbane area.
Miami Beach is home to the New World Symphony, established in 1987 under the creative direction of Michael Tilson Thomas.
The new Gehry building offers Live Wallcasts , which allow visitors to experience select affairs throughout the season at the half-acre, outside Miami Beach Sound - Scape through the use of visual and audio technology on a 7,000-square-foot (650 m2) projection wall.
The Miami City Ballet, a ballet business established in 1985, is homed in a 63,000-square-foot (5,900 m2) building near Miami Beach's Bass Museum of Art.
The Miami Beach Festival of the Arts is an annual outside art festival that was begun in 1974.
Miami Beach sees sunny day flooding of certain roads amid the annual king tides, though some argue this has been the case for decades, as the parts of the side of South Beach are at virtually 0 feet (0 m) above normal high tide, with the entire town/city averaging only 4.4 feet (1.3 m) above mean sea level (AMSL). However, a recent study by the University of Miami showed that tidal flooding became much more common from the mid 2000s. The fall 2015 king tides exceeded expectations in longevity and height. Traditional sea level rise and storm mitigation measures including sea walls and dykes, such as those in the Netherlands and New Orleans, may not work in South Florida due to the porous nature of the ground and limestone beneath the surface. In addition to present difficulty with below-grade development, some areas of southern Florida, especially Miami Beach, are beginning to engineer specifically for sea level rise and other potential effects of climate change.
Others yet have voiced concerns that the plan protects big-money interests in Miami Beach.
Miami Beach has a tropical climate, more specifically a tropical monsoon climate (Koppen Am), with hot humid summers and warm dry winters.
Other than the Florida Keys, Miami Beach has the warmest winter weather in the United States (mainland).
The warm and sunny weather in Miami Beach and South Florida attracts millions of travelers from around the world from November through April.
Miami Beach has the warmest ocean surf in the United States mainland annually.
Like much of Florida, there is a marked wet and dry season in Miami Beach.
The island locale of Miami Beach however, creates severaler convective thunderstorms, so Miami Beach receives less rainfall in a given year than neighboring areas such as Miami and Fort Lauderdale.
Proximity to the moderating influence of the Atlantic gives Miami Beach lower high temperatures and higher lows than inland areas of Florida.
Other than the Florida Keys (and Key West), Miami Beach is the only U.S.
Miami Beach's locale on the Atlantic Ocean, near its confluence with the Gulf of Mexico, make it extraordinarily vulnerable to hurricanes and tropical storms.
Although direct strikes from hurricanes are rare (Miami has experienced only two direct hits from primary hurricanes in recorded weather history the 1926 Miami hurricane and Hurricane Cleo in 1964), the region has seen indirect contact from hurricanes Betsy (1965), Inez (1966), Andrew (1992), Irene (1999), Michelle (2001), Katrina (2005), and Wilma (2005).
Climate data for Miami Beach, 1981-2010 normals, extremes 1927-present This chart shows the average coastal water temperature for the Atlantic Ocean by month in degrees Fahrenheit for Miami Beach based on historical measurements. Surrounding areas of Miami Beach Biscayne Bay, North Bay Village, Miami, Fisher Island Atlantic Ocean Miami Beach Miami Beach demographics 2010 Enumeration Miami Beach Miami-Dade County Florida As of 2010, those of Hispanic or Latino lineage accounted for 53.0% of Miami Beach's population.
As of 2010, those of African lineage accounted for 4.4% of Miami Beach's population, which includes African Americans.
As of 2010, those of (non-Hispanic white) European lineage accounted for 40.5% of Miami Beach's population.
As of 2010, those of Asian lineage accounted for 1.9% of Miami Beach's population.
As of 2000, Miami Beach had the 22nd highest concentration of Cuban inhabitants in the United States, at 20.51% of the population. It had the 28th highest percentage of Colombian residents, at 4.40% of the city's population, and the 14th highest percentage of Brazilian residents, at 2.20% of the its populace (tied with Hillside, New Jersey and Hudson, Massachusetts.) It also had the 27th biggest concentration of Peruvian ancestry, at 1.85%, and the 27th highest percentage of citizens of Venezuelan heritage, at 1.79%. Miami Beach also has the 33rd highest concentration of Honduran lineage at 1.21% and the 41st highest percentage of Nicaraguan residents, which made up 1.03% of the population. Public Transportation in Miami Beach is directed by Miami-Dade Transit (MDT).
Along with neighborhoods such as Downtown and Brickell, enhance transit is heavily used in Miami Beach, and is a vital part of town/city life.
Although Miami Beach has no direct Metrorail stations, various Metrobus lines connect to Downtown Miami and Metrorail (i.e., the 'S' bus line).
The South Beach Local (SBL) is one of the most heavily used lines in Miami, and joins all primary points of South Beach to other primary bus lines in the city.
Metrobus ridership in Miami Beach is high, with some of the routes such as the L and S being the busiest Metrobus routes. The Airport-Beach Express (Route 150), directed by MDT, is a direct-service bus line that joins Miami International Airport to primary points in South Beach.
Since the late 20th century, cycling has grown in popularity in Miami Beach.
Due to its dense, urban nature, and pedestrian-friendly streets, many Miami Beach inhabitants get around by bicycle.
The program is directed by a private corporation, Decobike, LLC, but is partnered with the City of Miami Beach in a revenue sharing model. Once fully implemented, the program hopes to have around 1000 bikes accessible from 100 stations throughout Miami Beach, from around 85th Street on the north side of Miami Beach all the way south to South Pointe Park. Miami-Dade County Public Schools serves Miami Beach.
Miami Beach Senior High School In the early history of Miami Beach there was one elementary school and the Ida M.
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