South Beach , also nicknamed SoBe , is a neighborhood in the city of Miami Beach, Florida, United States, located east of Miami right between Biscayne Bay and the Atlantic Ocean. This area includes all the barrier islands in Miami Beach in South Indian Creek.
This area is the first part of Miami Beach to be developed, beginning in the 1910s, due to the development efforts of Carl G. Fisher, Lummus Brothers, and John S. Collins, the latter of the Collins Bridge development that provides the first essential vital link between Miami's mainland and beaches.
The area has undergone many artificial and natural changes over the years, including exploding regional economies, increased tourism, and storms in 1926, which destroyed much of the region. In 2010, 39,186 people live in South Beach.
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History
South Beach began as a farm. In 1870, Henry and Charles Lum bought 165 hectares (67 ha) for coconut farming. Charles Lum built the first house on the beach in 1886. In 1894, Lum's brothers left the island, leaving control of the estate to John Collins, who came to South Coast two years later to conduct a land survey. He used the land for agricultural purposes, found fresh water and expanded the package from 14th Street to 67 in 1907.
In 1912, the Miami businessman, Lummus Brothers, acquired 400 acres (160 acres) of Collins land in an effort to build a simple coastal town from a single family residence. In 1913 Collins began construction of a bridge from Miami to Miami Beach. Although some locals invested in the bridge, Collins ran out of money before he could finish it.
Carl G. Fisher, a successful businessman who made millions in 1909 after selling his business to Union Carbide, came to shore in 1913. His vision was to establish South Beach as a successful self-sufficient city in Miami. This is the same year when Joe's Stone Crab restaurant opened. Fisher lent Collins $ 50,000 to his bridge, completed in June 1913. The Collins Bridge was later replaced by the Causeway Causeway.
On March 26, 1915, Collins, Lummus, and Fisher consolidated their efforts and incorporated Miami Beach City. In 1920 County Causeway (renamed MacArthur Causeway in 1942) was completed. Lummus brothers sell their seaside property, between 6th and 14th Streets, into town. To this day, this area is known as Lummus Park.
In 1920, the Miami Beach boom began. The main streets of South Beach (5th Street, Alton Road, Collins Avenue, Washington Avenue, and Ocean Drive) are all well suited for car traffic. The population grew in the 1920s, and some millionaires like Harvey Firestone, J.C. Penney, Harry C. Stutz, Albert Champion, Frank Seiberling, and Rockwell LaGorce built a home in Miami Beach. President Warren G. Harding stayed at the Flamingo Hotel during this time, increasing interest in the area.
In the 1930s, the architectural revolution came to South Beach, bringing Art Deco architecture, Streamline Moderne, and Nautical Moderne to the Beach. South Beach claims to be the largest collection of Streamline Moderne Art Deco architecture in the world. Napier, New Zealand, another notorious Art Deco city, has an architecture that is comparable to Miami Beach as it was rebuilt in Art Deco Ziggurat style after being destroyed by an earthquake in 1931.
In 1940, the beach had a population of 28,000. After the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, the Army Air Corps took command over Miami Beach. That year, tourism brought nearly two million people to South Beach.
In 1964, South Beach became more famous when Jackie Gleason performed her weekly variety variety, The Jackie Gleason Show to the recording area, a rare thing in the industry. Beginning in the mid-1960s and continuing through the 1980s, South Beach was used as a retirement community with most of the hotels and apartment buildings on the seafront filled with parents living on small fixed income. This period also saw the introduction of "cocaine cowboys," drug traffickers who use the area as a base for their illegal drug activities. Scarface , released in 1983, symbolizes this activity. In addition, Miami Vice television show uses South Beach as the setting for most of its film making because of its raw and unique visual beauty. A recurring theme of the early episode of Miami Vice was thugs and drug addicts blockaded themselves in empty buildings that almost collapsed and almost like destruction. Only small changes had to be made for these scenes because many of the buildings in South Beach were really in bad shape by then.
While many of the unique Art Deco buildings, such as the New Yorker Hotel, disappeared for developers in the years before 1980, this area was kept as an integrated unit by Barbara Capitman and a group of activists who spearheaded the movement to place nearly a square mile of South Beach at the List of National Historic Sites. The Miami Beach Architecture District was set in 1979.
Before the days of Miami Vice, South Beach was considered a very poor area with a very high crime rate. Today, it is considered one of the richest and most prosperous commercial areas on the coast. Nevertheless, poverty and crime still exist in some remote places around the area.
In 2009, Natalie O'Neill of Miami New Times said, "Until the 1980s, Miami Beach was a strange mixture of criminals, Cubans, and little old ladies, and then beautiful people moved on. " In the late 1980s, renaissance began in South Beach, with the influx of fashion industry professionals moving to the area. In 1989, Irene Marie bought Sun Ray Apartments (famous for the chainsaw scene on Scarface ) located on Ocean Drive and opened Irene Marie Models.
Thomas Kramer is credited with starting a construction boom in South Beach, encouraging the gentrification of the area. Now a popular place of life for the rich. Luxurious upscale condo units sold up to millions. There are a number of vocal critics about its development. High-rise buildings and high densities are ridiculed as "concrete forests". However, even critics recognize that development has turned the area into a pedestrian-friendly pedestrian area.
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Today
Both day and night, the South Beach section of Miami Beach is the ultimate entertainment destination with hundreds of nightclubs, restaurants, boutiques and hotels. The area is popular with tourists from Canada, Europe, Israel and the rest of the Western Hemisphere, with some having a permanent or second home. South Beach has also been visited by many American and foreign tourists by the fact that the practice of bathing sunbathing by ladies on the beach and at several hotel pools in Miami Beach has been perceived by locals as more permissive than in most US beaches, and despite the fact that the practice has not been officially legalized by the local government, this practice continues to be adopted on a large scale.
The diverse backgrounds of South Beach people are evident in many languages ​​spoken. In 2000, 55% of Miami Beach's population spoke Spanish as a first language, while English was the first language for 33% of the population. The Portuguese (mainly Brazilian Portuguese) are spoken by 3% of the population, while France (including Canada France) is spoken by 2%, and Germany at 1%. Italian, Russian, Yiddish, and Hebrew are all spoken by less than 1%.
Another unique aesthetic attribute of South Beach is the presence of several colorful and unique booths used by the Miami Beach coast guard in South Beach. After Hurricane Andrew, Architects William Lane donated his design services to the city and added a new stop on the design tour in the form of a guard tower. His tower soon became a symbol of the revived Miami Beach city.
LGBT Community
After decades of economic and social decline, the inclusion of gay men and lesbians moving to South Beach in the late 1980s through the mid-1990s helped contribute to the revitalization of Miami Beach. Newcomers buy and restore the dilapidated Art Deco hotels and clubs, start many businesses, and build political power in city and district government. As South Beach became more popular as a national and international tourist destination, there was occasional clashes between cultures and disagreements about whether South Beach was as "gay friendly" as it used to be.
As a gay qibla in the 1980s and 1990s, Miami Beach never had a Gay Pride Parade inaugurated by the city until April 2009. With the strong support of Mayor Bower, Miami Beach held its first Gay Pride Festival in April 2009. It is now an annual event. Pride of 2010 attracted tens of thousands of people.
Miami Beach weekend Gay Pride has become famous since it first started in 2009, there has been an increase in attendance every year. In 2013 there were over 80,000 people participating in the event. It has also attracted many celebrities such as Chaz Bono, Adam Lambert, Gloria Estefan, Mario Lopez, and Elvis Duran which is the Grand Marshals for weekend Pride from 2012 to 2016. There are over 125 businesses that support LGBT sponsors Miami beach Gay Pride week end. The sponsors include Pinnacle Vodka, Fiat, Hard Rock Cafe, Miami 103.5 hit radio station beat WMIB and Jeep. Also, at the 2015 Pride Festival, the city decided to recall two gay Legacy couples who have been together for more than 50 years. Two couples Frank Petrole and Mark Rudick who have been together for 55 years and Mary Maguire and Jackie Emmett who have been together for 53 years.
Controversy
In 2009, the ACLU began looking for examples of Miami Beach Police that target gay men to be harassed. In February 2010, the ACLU announced that it would sue Miami Beach for targeting and catching gay men in public. According to the ACLU, Miami Beach police have a history of catching gay men for just looking "too gay".
At a meeting with local gay leaders, Miami Beach Police Chief Carlos Noriega claimed the incident was isolated, promising an increase in diversity training for police officers. He also announced that a captain, who is a lesbian, would soon be moved into internal affairs to deal with complaints about police officers accused of harassing gays. Some committee members are skeptical of Noriega's assertion that recent cases show no greater problems in the MBPD, and provide examples of other cases.
Geography
South Beach is traversed by numerical streets running east-west, starting with Biscayne Street, now popularly known as South Pointe Drive, a block south of First Street and the mostly culminated Lincoln Road (running parallel between 16 and 17 streets). It also has 13 major Roads and Highways that run north-south, which, from the side of Biscayne Bay, are Bay Road, West Avenue, Alton Road, Lenox Avenue, Michigan Avenue, Jefferson Avenue, Meridian Avenue, Euclid Avenue, Pennsylvania Avenue, Drexel Avenue, Washington Avenue, Collins Avenue (State Road A1A), and Ocean Drive. There are three small roads (which do not run the entire length of South Beach) in the Collins Park area, named Park, Liberty, and James. Most locals agree that the northern boundary of the South Coast stretches along Dade Boulevard from Lincoln Road on the bay side of the island, and heads east-north-east until it connects with 23rd Street, which forms the northern border on the sea side.
Nearby Areas
- Belle Isle
- City Center
- Island In Lido
- Island of Flagler Monuments
- Flamingo/Lummus
- Hibiscus Island
- Coconut Island
- Rivo Alto Island
- San Marino Island
- Star Island
- South Pointe
- SoFi-South Fifth
- West Avenue Corridor
- Blue & amp; Pink
Climate
Climatic classification system KÃÆ'¶ppen-Geiger classifies its climate as the boundary between tropical (Am) and humid subtropical (CFA) monsoons.
Garden
- Collins Park - Collins Ave and 21st St
- Flamingo Park- Among Michigan Ave and Meridian Av from 11th St to EspaÃÆ' Â ± ola Way
- Lummus Park - Ocean Drive from 5th St. to 14th St
- Maurice Gibb Park - Purdy Ave and Dade Blvd
- Miami Beach Golf Club - Alton Road and W 23rd St
- South Pointe Park - Washington Ave and South Pointe Dr
- Washington Park - Washington Ave and 2nd St
Transportation
South Beach, along with several other neighborhoods in Greater Miami (such as Downtown and Brickell), is one area where a car-free lifestyle is commonplace. Many South Beach residents walk around on foot, bicycle, motorbike, trolley, bus or taxi because the neighborhood is very urban and pedestrian. Lincoln Road, Ocean Drive, Washington Avenue, and Collins Avenue are popular shopping, dining and entertainment venues for pedestrians. Lincoln Road is a pedestrian-only shopping street, and Collins Avenue around 5th Street is an upscale retail.
Car jams in this area are frequent, so driving around in South Beach by car can often prove to be more difficult than just walking or cycling. Recently, Miami Beach has embarked on a bicycle initiative promoting bicycle parking throughout the city and bike trails that have made bikes more popular for residents and tourists. The Venetian Causeway, for example, is a popular bike commuter route that connects South Beach to Downtown.
Public transport in South Beach, along with Downtown and Brickell, is very often used, and is an important part of South Beach's life. Although South Beach does not have a direct Metrorail station, many Metrobus lines (operated by Miami-Dade Transit), connect to Downtown Miami and Metrorail (eg Metrobus line S and 120). Miami International Airport can be reached quickly from several bus stops in South Beach via Airport-Beach Express (Metrobus line 150). The ride is worth $ 2.35 and runs every 30 minutes from 06:00 to 23:00. seven days a week.
The various trolley routes operated by City of Miami Beach provide free rides throughout the South Coast and connect them to other major Miami Beach areas: the South Beach Loop travels along South Beach, the Middle Beach Loop connects South Beach to Mid-Beach main street (41st Street)) via State Road A1A and along 41st Street, and Collins Express connects South Beach to Mid-Beach and North Beach via State Road A1A. Using Collins Express to connect to the North Beach Loop allows free trips from South Beach to several areas of North Beach. The four trolley lines operate from 8 am to midnight on Sundays and from 6 am to midnight on the rest of the week.
Currently, the tram system, named 'Baylink' is in the planning stages. Baylink will connect South Beach to Downtown at Government Center Station via MacArthur Causeway.
Education
Primary school
Public schools
Miami-Dade County Public School operates a public school area:
- South Pointe Elementary School
- Feinberg-Fisher Primary School
Private school
- First Presbyterian International Christian School
- Gordon Day School (Jewish)
- Prima Casa Montessori School
SMA
Miami-Dade County Public School operates a public school area:
- SMA Miami Beach (public)
- Rabbi Alexander Gross High School (private, Jewish)
Colleges and universities
- The University of Florida International School of Architecture has a twin campus at 420 Lincoln Road in South Beach, with classrooms for FIU students, art, music and graduate students of the theater
- Lubavitch Education Center (private, Jewish)
- Miami Ad School (private)
Cultural institutions
Festivals and events
- Art Basel Miami, an art exhibition held in December
- Food Network Festival Wine and Southern Beach Foods, held in February
- Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Miami, held in July
- Miami Fashion Week, held in March
- Miami International Film Festival, held in March
- Miami Marathon, held in January
- Urban Beach Week, Memorial Day weekend, last weekend in May. Urban hip-hop festival since 2001.
- The White Feast, held in Spring
- Winter Music Conference, held in March
Library
- Miami-Dade Public Library
- Miami Beach Regional Library
- South Shore Library
- The Wolfsonian-FIU Library
Museums and historic sites
- ArtCenter/South Florida
- The Bass Museum
- Miami Holocaust Memorial
- The Jewish Museum of Florida
- Wolfsonian-FIU
- Miami Erotic World Art Museum
Places of worship
- The Miami Beach Community Church
- The Lord's Pentecostal Church
- Church of Saint Frances De Sales
- Temple Beth Shmuel
- Temple Emanu-El
Theater and performing arts
- Colony Theater
- Theater of Lincoln
- Jackie Gleason Theater
- Miami City Ballet
- New World Center and New World Symphony Orchestra
- SoBe Art Institute (SoBe Arts)
Commercial and other areas
Lincoln Road
Lincoln Road is an open pedestrian mall, regarded as South Beach's premier shopping area. It is home to many restaurants and some nightclubs, such as Scores, as well as many retail outlets. While Lincoln Road was one-time somewhat oppressed, it began a renaissance in 1980 as an arts and cultural center. With its unique boutique shops and restaurants, it has an "esoteric chic that retains its trendy appeal." It runs parallel between 16th Street and 17th Street and stretches the coast in the east-west direction. Lincoln Road is fully accessible for car traffic until the 1950s when limited car access from Alton Road to Biscayne Bay on the west end and Washington Avenue to the beach at the eastern end of Lincoln Road with Lincoln Mall limited to pedestrians stretching from Alton Road to Washington Avenue. Between the late 1990s the restaurant on Lincoln Road was one owned by actor Michael Caine, and managed by one of his daughters. The restaurant has closed. The Miami Coast Conservation Agency approved the closing of car traffic in the western Lincoln Mall, supporting the renovation of the SunTrust building including the construction of the 1111 Lincoln Road parking garage. Several other nearby parking garages make trading easy.
Ocean Drive
Ocean Drive is the easternmost street in South Beach, and comes from 15th Street to Biscayne Street, walking north-south. Ocean Drive is responsible for the aesthetics of South Beach that most of the out-of-town visitors expect. It is a popular Spring Break and tourist area, including the famous Pearl and Nikki Beach night spots. It is also home to some prominent restaurants (including "News Cafe," "Mango," and "Clevelander" popularized by MTV) and is the location of former seaside home of Gianni Versace.
Collins Avenue
Collins Avenue runs parallel with Ocean Drive, one block to the west. This is also State Road A1A. Collins is home to many historic Art Deco hotels, and several nightclubs in the north, including Mynt and Rokbar.
EspaÃÆ' Â ± ola Way
EspaÃÆ' Â ± ola Way, which runs from Collins Avenue to Pennsylvania Avenue, conceived by N.B.T. Roney (from Roney Plaza Hotel fame) in 1925 as "The Historic Spanish Village," is modeled after the romantic Mediterranean villages found in France and Spain. Today it consists of restaurants, bars, art galleries, and unique shops.
- Alton Road
- South Beach is the setting of a nightclub drag Birdcage in the comedy The Birdcage (1996).
- Two films starring Will Smith and Martin Lawrence, Bad Boys (1995) and Bad Boys II (2003), are in and around Miami and South Beach.
- Mid-Beach
- North Coast
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- Crandell, Ben; Sentinel, Sun. "Chaz Bono to lead the Miami Beach Gay Pride parade". articles.sun-sentinel . Retrieved March 20 2015 .
- Miami City. "Prime Sponsor 2015". Miamibeachgaypride . Retrieved March 20 2015 .
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Alton Road is a north-south road on the west side that lies 1-3 blocks from Biscayne Bay. On the part that crosses South Beach, the road is host to many local businesses, including dry cleaners, small furniture stores, small wholesale markets, non-chain restaurants and fast food restaurants. This is primarily a residential area after crossing Michigan Avenue in North Beach.
Washington Avenue
Washington Avenue is one of South Beach's most famous streets. Walking parallel to Ocean and Collins, Washington is famous for having some of the biggest and most popular night clubs in the world, such as Cameo and Mansion. During the "season" the road is jammed with traffic until morning (until 6 am) every night of the week. In the 1990s South Beach blast as a nightclub, its nightclub moguls included Ingrid Casares, whose investors included Madonna's singer. Washington Avenue is also home to many famous shops, hotels and architectural features such as Temple Emanu-El.
West Avenue Corridor
The West Avenue Corridor extends from 5th Street north to 17th Street and is bordered by the eastern side of Alton Road and Biscayne Bay. Construction on the West Avenue Corridor began in the 1920s when three large hotels were built on the banks of Biscayne Bay: The Flamingo, The Fleetwood and Floridian. Al Capone and the holidaymakers of the Golden Era make these hotels their winter hideouts. In 1950, the hotels were destroyed and the tourists left the south side of the South Coast for the oceans.
All three properties, along with the rest of the Corridor, have since evolved into a middle-class, mixed housing environment. Every decade that goes by sees the addition of new architectural styles that enhance the diversity and attractiveness of the environment. Facilities for residents and visitors include shopping, places of worship, cafes, restaurants, parks and fitness centers.
Today, the West Avenue Corridor is one of the most desirable places to stay in Miami Beach. Travelers, homeowners and renters can find suitable living spaces in any of these environments that support a combination of single-family homes, original art deco buildings, mid-rises MiMo and high contemporary high density.
The corridor is home to nearly 10,000 residents, over 40 different condos, several single-family homes and a number of rental buildings. The environment has changed over the years. The recent census shows the environment to be much younger and more throughout the year than in previous years. It is very walkable as it is a quiet neighborhood and close to many amenities - Flamingo Park, Lincoln Road, ocean, nightlife Ocean Drive and Washington Avenue, Whole Foods Market, Publix and many restaurants.
Located on 10th Street and West Avenue, The Shoppes on West Avenue, built nearly 12 years ago by Gumenick Properties, a place of business activity that complements the residential community. There is a parking garage disguised by the architecture and on the ground floor are shops such as Starbucks, one of the most friendly on the Beach, Oliver's Bistro, a European "local" joints overseen by friendly and hospitable owners Hagen Taudt, a dry cleaner , South Beach Animal Hospital, spa, Massage by Design, and other businesses.
Adding to the environmental appeal is its proximity to the Fifth Southern neighborhood, Sunset Harbor, Belle Isle, the Venetian Islands and North Bay Road. South of the Fifth community is the South Pointe Elementary School, the "A" grade school that boasts the highly coveted International Baccalaureate® program.
One can say that the Corridor has become a full circle - the intention of the ancestors is to create a magical lifestyle in a tropical paradise, and the inhabitants who now make their homes along the Gulf meet and continue that lifestyle.
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