Miami Beach

Wednesday, 19 November 2014 - 04:13 am (CET/MEZ) Berlin | Author/Destination:
Category/Kategorie: General, Miami / South Florida
Reading Time:  6 minutes

Biscayne Island © Averette/cc-by-3.0-en

Biscayne Island © Averette/cc-by-3.0-en

Miami Beach is a coastal resort city in Miami-Dade County in Florida. It was incorporated on March 26, 1915. The municipality is located on a series of natural and man-made barrier islands between the Atlantic Ocean and Biscayne Bay, the latter which separates the Beach from Miami city proper. The neighborhood of South Beach, comprising the southernmost 2.5 square miles (6.5 km2) of Miami Beach, along with Downtown Miami and Port of Miami, collectively form the commercial center of South Florida. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 88,000. Miami Beach 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. After Napier in New Zealand, the Art Deco District is the second largest collection of Art Deco architecture in the world and comprises hundreds of hotels, apartments and other structures erected between 1923 and 1943. Mediterranean, Streamline Moderne and Art Deco are all represented in the District. The Historic District is bounded by the Atlantic Ocean on the East, Lenox Court on the West, 6th Street on the South and Dade Boulevard along the Collins Canal to the North. The movement to preserve the Art Deco District’s architectural heritage was led by former interior designer Barbara Capitman, who now has a street in the District named in her honor (Miami Design Preservation League).

Each December, the City of Miami Beach hosts Art Basel Miami Beach, one of the largest art shows in the United States. Art Basel Miami Beach, the sister event to the Art Basel event held each June in Basel, combines an international selection of top galleries with a program of special exhibitions, parties and crossover events featuring music, film, architecture and design. Exhibition sites are located in the city’s Art Deco District, and ancillary events are scattered throughout the greater Miami metropolitan area. Miami Beach is home to the New World Symphony, established in 1987 under the artistic direction of Michael Tilson Thomas. In January 2011, the New World Symphony made a highly publicized move into the New World Center building designed by Canadian American Pritzker Prize-winning architect Frank Gehry.

Biscayne Island © Averette/cc-by-3.0-en North Beach © Akoya Condominiums/cc-by-sa-3.0 Government Cut between Miami Beach and Fisher Island © Averette/cc-by-sa-3.0 Ocean Drive - Art Deco buildings © Hubo/cc-by-sa-3.0 © Miamiboyz South Beach Panorama © Matt H. Wade/cc-by-sa-3.0
<
>
Government Cut between Miami Beach and Fisher Island © Averette/cc-by-sa-3.0
Miami Beach is home to a number of Orthodox Jewish communities with a network of well-established synagogues and yeshivas, the first of which being the Landow Yeshiva, a Chabad institution in operation for over 30 years. There is also a liberal Jewish community containing such famous synagogues as Temple Emanu-El and Cuban Hebrew Congregation. 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 people in Jewish households, 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 community had decreased in size by 1994 due to migration to wealthier areas and an aging of the population.

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 residents get around by bicycle. In March 2011 a public bicycle sharing system named Citi Bike Miami was launched, one of only a handful of such programs in the United States. The program is operated 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.

Neighborhoods are: Belle Isle, City Center, Di Lido Island, Flagler Monument Island, Flamingo/Lummus, Hibiscus Island, Palm Island, Rivo Alto Island, San Marino Island, Star Island, South Pointe, South of Fifth, Oceanfront, Bayshore, Nautilus, Biscayne Point, Isle of Normandy, La Gorce and North Shore. Points of interest are: Fillmore Miami Beach, Eden Roc, Flagler Monument Island, Fontainebleau Hotel, Versace Mansion (Casa Casuarina), Holocaust Memorial, Lincoln Road, Miami Beach Architectural District, Miami Beach Botanical Garden, Ocean Drive, South Beach and Wolfsonian-FIU Museum.

Read more on Miami Beach, Greater Miami and the Beaches, Miami Beach Marina, Miami Beach Culture, Miami Beach Golf Club, The New York Times, 28 February 2019: The Palmy Days of a South Beach Shtetl, Wikivoyage Miami Beach, miamism.com, Miami Herald, 15 July 2022: Here are seven Miami-area arts, cultural attractions and Wikipedia Miami Beach. Learn more about the use of photos. To inform you about latest news most of the city, town or tourism websites offer a newsletter service and/or operate Facebook pages/Twitter accounts. In addition more and more destinations, tourist organizations and cultural institutions offer Apps for your Smart Phone or Tablet, to provide you with a mobile tourist guide (Smart Traveler App by U.S. Department of State - Weather report by weather.com - Global Passport Power Rank - Travel Risk Map - Democracy Index - GDP according to IMF, UN, and World Bank - Global Competitiveness Report - Corruption Perceptions Index - Press Freedom Index - World Justice Project - Rule of Law Index - UN Human Development Index - Global Peace Index - Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Index). If you have a suggestion, critique, review or comment to this blog entry, we are looking forward to receive your e-mail at comment@wingsch.net. Please name the headline of the blog post to which your e-mail refers to in the subject line.








Recommended posts:

Share this post: (Please note data protection regulations before using buttons)

Rietveld Schröder House in Utrecht

Rietveld Schröder House in Utrecht

[caption id="attachment_235447" align="aligncenter" width="590"] © Mycosm93[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]The Rietveld Schröder House (Dutch: Rietveld Schröderhuis) (also known as the Schröder House) in Utrecht (Prins Hendriklaan 50) ...

[ read more ]

The steam frigate Jylland

The steam frigate Jylland

[caption id="attachment_152748" align="aligncenter" width="590"] © Sebastian Nils/cc-by-sa-3.0[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]Jylland is one of the world's largest wooden warships, and is both a screw-propelled steam frigate and a sailshi...

[ read more ]

The university city of Norwich

The university city of Norwich

[caption id="attachment_160750" align="aligncenter" width="590"] Norwich Market © Saxsux[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]Norwich is a city on the River Wensum in England. It is the regional administrative centre and county town of Norfolk....

[ read more ]

University of Glasgow

University of Glasgow

[caption id="attachment_241974" align="aligncenter" width="590"] Gilbert Scott Building © Diliff/cc-by-3.0[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]The University of Glasgow (abbreviated as Glas. in post-nominals; Scottish Gaelic: Oilthigh Ghlaschu...

[ read more ]

Miami Modern architecture (MiMo)

[caption id="attachment_231876" align="aligncenter" width="590"] Bacardi Building in Edgewater © Averette/cc-by-3.0[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]Miami Modernist architecture, or MiMo, is a regional style of architecture that developed i...

[ read more ]

Theme Week Guatemala - Guatemala City

Theme Week Guatemala - Guatemala City

[caption id="attachment_223487" align="aligncenter" width="590"] Palacio Nacional © flickr.com - Francisco Anzola/cc-by-2.0[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]Guatemala City (Spanish: Ciudad de Guatemala), locally known as Guatemala or Guate,...

[ read more ]

Malta, the island republic in the Mediterranean

Malta, the island republic in the Mediterranean

[caption id="attachment_152807" align="aligncenter" width="590"] Valletta - Grand Harbour © Henry M. Trotter[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]Malta, officially known as the Republic of Malta, is a Southern European country consisting of an ...

[ read more ]

Cathedral of St. Michael and St. Gudula in Brussels

Cathedral of St. Michael and St. Gudula in Brussels

[caption id="attachment_234962" align="aligncenter" width="590"] The nave © Diego Delso/cc-by-sa-4.0[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]The Cathedral of St. Michael and St. Gudula (French: Cathédrale des Saints Michel et Gudule, Dutch: Kathe...

[ read more ]

Roussillon in Vaucluse department

Roussillon in Vaucluse department

[caption id="attachment_233888" align="aligncenter" width="590"] © Vid Pogacnik/cc-by-sa-4.0[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]Roussillon (Occitan: Rossilhon) is a commune in the Vaucluse department of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region ...

[ read more ]

Kornati Islands National Park in Croatia

Kornati Islands National Park in Croatia

[caption id="attachment_232369" align="aligncenter" width="590"] © Sporki/cc-by-sa-3.0[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]The Kornati archipelago of Croatia, also known as the Stomorski islands, is located in the northern part of Dalmatia, so...

[ read more ]

The Mercer Hotel in SoHo

The Mercer Hotel in SoHo

[caption id="attachment_243786" align="aligncenter" width="474"] © flickr.com - ajay_suresh/cc-by-2.0[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]The Mercer Hotel, located at the corner of Mercer and Prince Streets in SoHo, Manhattan, New York City. I...

[ read more ]

Reconstruction of the Berlin City Palace, then known as Humboldtforum, approved

Reconstruction of the Berlin City Palace, then known as Humboldtforum, approved

[caption id="attachment_161157" align="aligncenter" width="590"] © eldaco[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]The Stadtschloss (English: Berlin City Palace), was a royal palace in the centre of Berlin, capital of Germany. The palace bore featu...

[ read more ]

Return to TopReturn to Top