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Ways To Get Around
Metrorail:
The Metrorail has two lines; green and orange, which move north and south. The orange line train also services Miami International Airport which gives connections to the Miami Central Station. Metrorail service starts at 5am and ends at midnight 7 days a week servicing all 22 stops. The rail system is limited as it stops at Palmetto Station for the northern line, and Dadeland South Station for the southern line. This means that Aventura and Miami Beach are not serviced by this system, with Miami Beach being one of the most popular tourist spots. The trains offer free wifi but no other amenities. In fact, bringing food and drinks onboard is not allowed. Also, the Metrorail system does not accept cash which means that you must purchase an Easy Card to pay your fare.
Metrobus:
The Miami bus service runs throughout Miami-Dade County 365 days a year, and unlike the Metrorail and Metromover, you can find a bus route to anywhere in the city. This means that you can go to Miami Beach, Key Biscayne, Homestead, Aventura and even Broward County by bus. There are more than 95 bus routes and some run 24 hours a day, including the S route that runs through South Beach. Unlike the Metrorail the Metrobus accepts cash, but only the exact amount. If you pay over the fare, you will not get any change back depending on what bill you use. No pennies are allowed and you must pay directly into the fare meter at the front of the bus.
Metromover:
The Metromover is free fully automatic system that runs above the streets of downtown Miami and Brickell. It has connections to Government Center Station and Brickell Station. The Metromover is a free way to get around downtown Miami and offers the best schedule. The Metromover does not have a driver, therefore the schedule is very tight and more efficient. Major destinations include American Airlines Arena, Bayside Marketplace, Miami-Dade College, and the James L. Knight Center.
How To Pay:
The Easy Card and Easy Ticket/Transfers:
As mentioned above, MDT still accept cash as a form of payment, but only on the Metrobus. This means that you will need an Easy Card to get around the majority of the time. For most commuters, the Easy Card will resemble a green credit card that you can tap when you enter the bus or Metrorail station.
According to the MDT website, you can “buy a Transit pass online in the Transit Store or by downloading the EASY Pay app on your mobile phone. Transit passes are also available at any Metrorail Station, Transit Center and Sales Outlet or by calling the EASY Card Financial Center. Discounts are available for Miami-Dade County employees, veterans, senior citizens, Medicare recipients, students and most people with disabilities”.
There are various options available with the Easy Ticket. If you plan to only use the MDT system for a day, you can buy a day pass for $5.65. For a week, you can buy the week pass which is $29.25. For the month option it is $112.50. However, if you wish to take the bus or rail only a few times a month, then buy a Easy Card which is $2 and then add the necessary fare to enjoy your ride.
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Transportation Background
Miami is home to the 15th largest transit system in the United States which has serviced the community since 1960 when the County Commision created the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) which has become the MDT. It has the largest transit agency in Florida and offers multiple ways to get around. The MDT system also offers direct transportation to Miami International Airport by a dedicated line using the Metrorail.
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Downtown Miami
History
Downtown Miami is the very heart of the Miami Government and the former heart of Miami’s financial sector (it’s not completely gone, a lot of it just shifted over to Brickell). The area, which originally consisted of less than 500 people before individuals like Henry Flagler and Julia Tuttle showed up to really get things going, has grown into one of the biggest most developed cities in the US.
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The Olympia Theater is one of Miami’s oldest landmarks and one of only two atmospheric theatres in Florida. Though originally a movie theater, the Olympia has also served as a concert hall and a center for the performing arts. The Theater always has a variety of events going on, some of which are free and open to the public. Stop in sometime!
Originally the home of the now defunct The Miami News, in the late 1950s, the building now known as the Freedom Tower became a government facility that helped process the massive influx of Cuban refugees. The building now serves as a museum, educational and culture center that is owned by Miami Dade College.
The American Airlines Arena, home to the Miami Heat Basketball team, is located here. In addition to hosting the Heat, the Arena is also used as a concert venue so whenever one of the bigger names in music comes into town, you can bet that they’ll be performing over there!
The Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, found in the Northern section of Downtown, is the biggest performing arts center in Florida. It offers a mixture of events and performances: from opera to jazz to plays to Broadway, the Arsht has a little something for everyone.
Fun Facts
In November, the area hosts the Miami Book Fair, one of the largest literary fairs in North America.
In March, the area hosts Ultra Music Festival, an electronic music festival that brings in over a hundred thousand people every year!
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Little Havana
History
As the name implies, Little Havana is perhaps one of the most important places in Miami regarding the Cuban Diaspora. Though Cubans fleeing Cuba after the revolution settled all over Miami, this area in particular became a social and cultural hub for these recent arrivals. In recent years, the area has become less homogeneously Cuban due to the influx of other immigrant groups, especially those from Central America. Nevertheless, one can find landmarks dedicated to Miami’s Cuban community all throughout 8th street a.k.a. Miami’s Calle Ocho.
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The area is home to the Tower Theater, one of the oldest landmarks in Miami. Though the theater closed in 1984, In 2002, Miami Dade College was given the greenlight to restart operations, opening the theater to the public once more.
The area is home to Maximo Gomez Park aka Domino Park, a small public park where older Cuban Americans and other Latinos tend to gather to play dominoes and other games like chess and checkers. It’s a great place to sit and people watch.
Along 8th Street, you can see many rooster statues which are often painted/decorated in a way that reflects the business they stand in front of. They are literally one of the best things ever and you should be grateful for their presence in your life.
The legendary Versailles Restaurant can be found here along 8th street. It’s a Miami institution that is perennially beloved by tourists and many in the Cuban diaspora. Personally, I think it’s overhyped and overly crowded.
Marlins Stadium is here, but nobody really likes the Marlins and there was a fair degree of controversy surrounding the construction of this stadium, so that’s all I’m going to say about that. That being said, you might eventually get free tickets to a Marlins game or two because they hand them out like candy down here, so in case you were wondering, the stadiums over here.
Fun Facts
Prior to being a home to Miami’s Cuban Community, the area used to be a big hub for Miami’s Jewish community.
In 2015, the National Trust for Historic Preservation listed the neighborhood as one of the most endangered. Two years later, in 2017, the area would be declared a national treasure by the same organization.
On the last Friday of every month, the neighborhood holds its Viernes Culturales fair. This spotlights the food, music, art, and history that the neighborhood has to offer all along Calle Ocho. It is not the same thing as the Calle Ocho festival, which is like the Viernes Culturales festival, but times ten.
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Design District/Buena Vista
History
Buena Vista is one of the older areas of Miami and it used to be home to a population of farmers from other parts of the US South. Though the farmland was converted into something more suburban, the area remained a relatively working-class neighborhood. The Design District has historically been a part of Buena Vista, but due to gentrification in the area, the new development has created an area that can be considered a neighborhood of its own.
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The Design District is home to many designer brand stores that sell luxury goods. Notable stores include Yves Saint-Laurent, Tom Ford, and Balenciaga.
The Institute of Contemporary Art calls the Design District home. The ICA highlights the local art scene in Miami and tends to feature more experimental works that most mainstream galleries tend to shy away from.
Fun Facts
A cool feature of the Design District is the amount of statues and other forms of art that are publicly displayed throughout the area.
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Coconut Grove
History
Despite what one would think, Coconut Grove is actually the oldest neighborhood in Miami. Though originally its own city, it became a part of the city of Miami back in the mid-1920s. The Grove was actually a hub for Miami’s counterculture movement back in the 1960s, however, the hippies would later be replaced by developers in the 1970s. Though much of the Grove has been converted into expensive store fronts and condos, one can still see pockets of its original homes and spaces. The neighborhood is perhaps one of the biggest examples of undiscussed gentrification in Miami.
Highlights
The Kampong is a Tropical Garden that features architecture and design that is meant to invoke the image of a garden in Southeast Asia. In addition to tropical plants that one can find here in Miami, it also feature tropical plants from around the world, such as mangroves that are native to South Africa.
If you visit the The Barnacle Historic State Park, you will find the oldest home in Miami-Dade County. This home belonged to one of the original founders of Coconut Grove, Ralph Middleton Munroe. The are tours available throughout the day for those curious!
CocoWalk, an upscale outdoor mall, is considered the heart of Coconut Grove and is typically used by Miamians navigating the area as a “north star” of sorts. Though the shops featured in CocoWalk might be a bit too pricey for many, the area is still worth a visit for those in the area.
For those interested in seeing a lovely garden and mediterranean-style homes, Vizcaya Museum and Gardens is a must see! Many social-cultural events take place throughout the year at Vizcaya and the property has also been the location of various meetings between heads of states such as 1994’s First Summit of the America’s. If nothing else, it’s worth popping by to watch as dozens of young girls and their parents use the area as a backdrop to their Quinceanera photos.
Fun Facts
It isn’t uncommon to see peacocks strutting around the streets, parks, or even front yards of houses in this neighborhood. How did a bird native to India get here? Though nobody knows for sure, it is likely that someone brought them over as pets and lost track of them. Interestingly enough, Peacock Park isn’t named after the animals, but after a family whose surname was “Peacock.”
The Grove is home to a large Bahamian population due to an influx of Bahamian immigrants back in the late 19th century who settled in the area in order to work at the Peacock Inn and the local shipyards. During the Summer, local Bahamian-American groups typically have cultural festivals and events celebrating their heritage and history in the region!
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Wynwood
History
Originally, this was a neighborhood that housed multiple immigrant communities - most notably, Puerto Ricans - and was home to Miami’s garment district. As a result of urban renewal efforts starting in the early 2000s, the area is now a hub for the arts as well as a poster child of Miami’s struggle with gentrification.
Highlights
Wynwood is home to many small art galleries and expansive private collections that are filled with works by artists from all over the world. Many of these galleries also participate in many major art events that take place in the city such as Art Basel and Art Wynwood.
The Wynwood Art Walk is a sort of block party that combines the local art, crafts, music, and food scenes into one cool event. This free event is held on the second Saturday of each month.
Wynwood has become a haven for hipster bars and restaurants. While prices can be steep at times, there are plenty of cheap eats!
Fun Facts
Wynwood’s old nickname was “Little San Juan,” but it’s Puerto Rican residents used to lovingly refer to it as “El Barrio,” or “The Neighborhood.”
Over 30 Graffiti artists from all around the world were assembled in order to leave their designs on the area known as “Wynwood Walls.”
Wynwood is home to the Headquarters of the Miami New Times, a well regarded local paper that features many stories and information that one won’t find in periodicals like the Miami Herald. Be sure to give it a look!
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Overtown
History
Once upon a time, this neighborhood was hailed as the “Harlem of the South” and was the place where famous African-American Musicians and performers would stay after their performances at clubs on Miami Beach. (Unfortunately, the Beach was still segregated at the time.) These prosperous times were cut short after whole swathes of the community were cleared away in the 1960s so that construction of I-95 and I-395 could commence. This construction would later cut the remaining area of the community into three pieces.
Highlights
The Historic Lyric Theater, one of the last remnants of Overtown’s Golden Years, has been added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. On the first Friday of every month, it hosts a free amateur night. Be sure to stop by!
The area is home to the Black Police Precinct Courthouse and Museum. Due to segregation, African-Americans were barred from becoming police officers with the City of Miami until the early 1960s, so a separate division for African-Americans was established. The museum commemorates that police force.
Overtown is home to some of the oldest churches in Miami - Greater Bethel African Methodist Church, Mt. Zion Baptist Church, and St. John’s Baptist Church are all listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. actually delivered a speech at Greater Bethel back in 1958.
If you stop by the Culmer/Overtown Branch of the Miami-Dade Library System, you will see the works of Overtown’s own Purvis Young on display outside. A definite must see for any art aficionado!
Fun Facts
The are got its name as one had to go “over town,” aka to travel through what is now parts of Downtown Miami, to get to it from Miami Beach.
Many famous African-Americans have visited Overtown at one point or another. Some of these individuals include: Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Josephine Baker, W.E.B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, and Jackie Robinson!
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Edgewater
History
Edgewater is an area that has seen quite a lot of development over the past fifteen or so years. Though originally a bit of a rough area, it has since been filled to the brim with condos and expensive restaurants.
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Paramount Bay is one of the biggest residential buildings in the city of Miami and it has a particularly interesting backstory: apparently, the creative mind who came up with the ideas behind this building is none other than music icon Lenny Kravitz. I’m not making this up actually, the man has good taste.
Fun Facts
It often tends to get lumped in with either Wynwood, Downtown Miami, or the Design District whenever people discuss where the area technically is.
Many of Edgewater’s buildings, such as its 1800 Club building, have won awards for their design.
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Little Haiti
History
Little Haiti is to Haitians and the Haitian Diaspora in the US, what Little Havana is to Cubans and the Cuban Diaspora here in the US. Since the 1960s, Haitians began making their way into the area in order to be free from dictatorial rule back home. In the early 1970’s, the presence of Haitians in the neighborhood became significant enough that it was given the moniker “Little Port-au-Prince,” though “Little Haiti” proved to be the more popular title. Though the neighborhood is currently struggling with gentrification that threatens to force its residents out, they don’t intend to leave without a fight.
Highlights
There’s a bronze statue of the beloved Haitian revolutionary Toussaint L’Ouverture here. In fact, there are many murals and other works of art dedicated to him and other Haitian Revolutionaries here! (Note: L’Ouverture is to Haitians what George Washington is to Americans.)
For those who wish to see what arts, crafts, food, and cultural experiences the area has to offer, be sure to stop by the Caribbean Marketplace! There’s always some event going on there and the vendors there are locals who are selling goods that they often made themselves!
The Archdiocese of Miami is based out of Little Haiti’s Cathedral of Saint Mary. If you are a serious Catholic or someone who is interested in these sort of things, it might be worth stopping by.
Fun Facts
The original name for the neighborhood that we now know as Little Haiti was “Lemon City.” This was due to the fact that the area was home to citrus groves.
The neighborhood was the home to the first store of what would become the Winn-Dixie Supermarket Empire,
Little Haiti, or Lemon City, is actually one of the oldest settlements in Miami. In fact, they also have the oldest public library in Miami here!
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Liberty City
History
By the 1930s Overtown began to have issues with overcrowding and the deterioration of livable housing. As a response to this problem, a housing project was approved not too far from Overtown. This project and its surrounding areas would later be known as Liberty City. While Liberty City did have a relatively prosperous era, as of overcrowding due to the near destruction of Overtown, racism, rioting, and now gentrification, the area has seen better days.
Highlights
Liberty City is the home of the New Covenant Presbyterian Church, one of the first Southern Presbyterian Churches to integrate in the 1960s and the first church in Miami to open as a racially integrated church.
Liberty Square, aka the Pork & Beans Project, can be found here. Liberty Square was the first Southern public housing project that was geared exclusively towards African-Americans.
Fun Facts
Technically speaking, the area we refer to as “Liberty City” is named “Model City.” Official city documents refer to the area as “Model City,” yet the name is rarely (if ever) used in day-to-day conversations.
The Oscar-winning film Moonlight was filmed and takes place in Liberty City. After the film’s success, Miami-Dade commissioners voted to rename a stretch of NW 22nd Avenue to “Moonlight Way.”
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Brickell
History
Though initially settled during the mid-1800s, Brickell wasn’t truly developed until the early 1900s. It was due to the efforts of Mary Brickell, widow of William Brickell, who helped found the city of Miami. During the early 2000s, a construction boom occurred in the area, turning it into the luxurious, bustling heart of Miami’s business scene that it is today.
Highlights
Brickell is home to the Brickell City Center, a luxury mall that has indoor and outdoor segments. In fact, it is three separate buildings that are connected by some bridges. While the stores might be too pricey to shop at, it’s definitely worth stopping by to appreciate the architecture.
Florida International University’s Downtown Campus is located here in Brickell. This campus is catered toward serving the needs of mid-career professionals who live/work in the area and want to continue their education.
Mary Brickell Village is home to many restaurants and boutiques. Though these businesses tend to veer towards the more expensive side of things, it’s still a great area for people watching.
Fun Facts
The Metromover connects Downtown Miami and Brickell and is a great way to get around the area quickly. The biggest plus? All trips on the Metromover are free!
According to data from Miami’s Downtown Development Authority, from 2000 to 2010, the area saw a population growth of over 104.5% over the decade, making Brickell the fastest growing neighborhoods in Miami.
Brickell is home to one of the largest financial districts in the the city and, perhaps the entire US. The area is a banking and finance hub that sees a
The area is home to many consulates including, but not limited to, the British, French, German, Peruvian, Brazilian, Chilean, Argentinian, Ecuadorian, Mexican, and Japanese Consulates.
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Allapattah
History
Initially settled in 1856, this neighborhood has seen numerous changes since then. This neighborhood has seen multiple demographics shifts throughout the decades, and has now become a melting pot of people from throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. While financially speaking, it isn’t the richest area of Miami, it more than makes up for it in its cultural riches.
Highlights
It is home to an area known as Little Santo Domingo where one can find a mural dedicated to the Dominican Diaspora titled “La Bella Esquina” or “The Beautiful Corner.
There are many wholesale produce markets in the area where one can find many delicious tropical fruits at a very competitive price. Allapattah Produce Market is actually the largest open air distribution center Miami has to offer.
The neighborhood houses a textile industry where one can find clothes and other garment goods from places throughout Latin America.
The Rubell Family Collection, one of Miami’s oldest galleries, is planning on moving from its current location in Wynwood to a new location in Allapattah. This new location is scheduled to open some time in late 2019.
Fun Facts:
The name Allapattah comes from the Seminole word for Alligator.
A not so fun fact: Allapattah is currently seeing similar gentrification tends that Wynwood saw a little over ten years ago. While no one is sure what the future holds for the neighborhood. Residents are already starting to see a rise in rents.
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Notable Neighborhoods of the City of Miami
The city of Miami is home to numerous neighborhoods, all of which have interesting sights to see, cultural experiences to offer, and history to be shared. Below, is but a small sample of some of Miami’s most notable neighborhoods.
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Affordable Housing Guide
The following posts were the result of a group of Public Allies for our team service project to make resources for affordable housing in Miami more accessible to the layperson.
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