Miami 迈亚密


Florida

Miami is a costal city on the Atlantic Ocean in southeast Florida, with a population of 442,241 in 2020 census; 6.14 million people in the Miami metro, which is the 9th largest city and the third-largest skyline in the U.S.

Miami, Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach, Boca Raton, and Hollywood are collectively known as the Gold Coast.

Miami metropolitan area:

It’s the destination for college kids to spend spring break there, for its nightlife scene, especially in the South Beach on the barrier island of Miami Beach.

The high speed train from Orlando is a joke.

We first went to Miami in 2023 to attend the Miami Open.

Google translates Miami to 迈阿密 but I think 迈亚密 is more appropriated. One of the meanings of 亚 is second and Miami is second coming of LA and New York. Will she soon surpass these two bigger and better known cities? It’s hard to say but not impossible.

Miami is on the east coast, 1,276 miles south of New York

  • Miami metro: pop 6.1m (2020) on 6,137 sq mile
  • LA is 3.9m (2020) on 501 sq mile
  • New York is 8.8m (2020) on 472 sq mile.

Its downtown Bayside Market Place reminds me of NYC’s South Street Seaport.

Constructions are everywhere, cranes dot the skies.

Miami is in the so called Gold Coast with Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach, Boca Raton and Hollywood, on the east shore of Florida, on the Atlantic Ocean. Long Island has a Gold Coast too, on the north shore of the island.

The Treasure Coast has … is named after the Spanish Treasure Fleet lost in 1715 hurricane. It includes Indian River, St. Lucie and Martin counties.

Some media coverage:

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Pablo Escobar (1949-93) who died of a gunshot wound to the head, was what Al Capon of Chicago, and John Gotti of NY.

Miami in the late ’70s was awash in drug-related violence. In fact, it got so bad that in 1979, there was an AP story syndicated across the U.S. where officials from the city actually compared Miami to Chicago in the ’20s, calling these drug wars the work of the so-called cocaine cowboys – the warring drug cartels, mostly from Colombia, who vied for control of the city’s cocaine trade. So they transposed this gangster film to present-day Miami. And they hired Oliver Stone to write the picture.

A police bulletin we found among the files in the basement of the Atlanta Legal Aid Society said 40,000 Mariel Cubans had some criminal background. And in the first weeks of the boatlift, an INS official told People magazine that 85% of the refugees were convicts – 85%.

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER #4: And there was a continuing concern that Fidel Castro is emptying his jails and forcing boat captains to take undesirables to the United States.

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