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Miami Beach is a coastal resort city in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States.It is part of the Miami metropolitan area of South Florida.The municipality is located on natural and human-made barrier islands between the Atlantic Ocean and Biscayne Bay, the latter of which separates the Beach from the mainland city of Miami.
Ocean Drive is known mostly for its Art Deco hotels and restaurants/bars, many of which have been prominently featured in numerous movies and media. Among the most popular is the 1939 Colony Hotel, known as the most photographed art deco hotel.
Miami Modern architecture follies line Lincoln Road. Originally, Lincoln Road was a forest of mangroves, as was most of Miami Beach.In 1912, Carl Fisher cleared a strip of the mangroves from the Atlantic (east) side of the island to the Biscayne Bay (west) side of the island and it eventually became the town's social center.
By late 1970s and early ‘80s, Miami Beach, after its first heyday from the 1930s through the ‘60s, was a place in transition. Let’s see what it looked like from the Miami Herald Archives.
A trio of luxurious waterfront estates on Miami Beach’s exclusive Palm Island has been re-listed at a staggering $150 million, maintaining its record-breaking price tag for the island.
Public transportation in South Beach, along with Downtown Miami and Brickell, is heavily used, and is a vital part of South Beach life. Although South Beach has no direct Metrorail stations, numerous Metrobus lines (operated by Miami-Dade Transit ), connect to Downtown Miami and Metrorail (e.g., Metrobus lines S and 120).