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Published: November 21st 2006
Miami Beach
Miami Beach, Florida - United States of America
Jul 21, 1995
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City official name :Miami Beach
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Facts :Miami Beach is a city in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States. The city was incorporated on March 26, 1915. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 87,933. As of 2004, the population recorded by the U.S. Census Bureau is 89,104.
In 1979 Miami Beach's Art Deco Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Art Deco District is the largest collection of Art Deco architecture in the world and is comprised of 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
Miami Beach
Miami Beach, Florida - United States of America
honor.
Many people know of Miami thanks to the hit TV show, Miami Vice, which gave the city much recognition in the '80s.
South Beach (also known as SoBe) is one of the more popular areas of Miami Beach. Topless sunbathing is tolerated on certain designated areas of the beach. Before the TV show Miami Vice helped make the area popular, SoBe was rundown, with vacant buildings and a high crime rate. Today, it is considered one of the richest commercial areas on the beach, yet poverty and crime still remain in some places near the area.
Lincoln Road is a nationally known spot for great outdoor dining, bike riding, and shopping.
South Beach is one of the top destinations in the United States for gay tourism.
The Miami Beach environs are home to a number of growing Orthodox Jewish communities with a network of well-established and growing synagogues and yeshivas. It is also a magnet for thousands of Jewish families, retirees, and particularly snowbirds when the cold winter sets in to the north. They range from the Followers to the Modern Orthodox to the Haredi and Hasidic - including many rebbes who vacation there
Miami Beach
Miami Beach, Florida - United States of America
during the North American winter. There are a number of kosher restaurants and even kollels for post-graduate Talmudic scholars.
According to the Morgan Quitno Awards, Miami Beach is one of the most dangerous small cities (population between 75,000 and 99,999) in the country.
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