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Driving Downtown Streets - Collins Avenue - Miami Beach Florida USA - Episode 55.\r
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Miami Beach is a coastal resort city in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States. \r
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Image and Cultural Depictions\r
South Beach (also known as SoBe, or simply the Beach) is one of the more popular areas of Miami Beach. Before the TV show Miami Vice helped make the area popular, SoBe was under urban blight, 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.\r
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Miami Beach, particularly Ocean Drive of what is now the Art Deco District, was also featured prominently in the 1983 feature film Scarface and the 1996 comedy The Birdcage.\r
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The New World Symphony Orchestra is based in Miami Beach, under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas.\r
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Lincoln Road, running east-west parallel between 16th and 17th Streets, is a nationally known spot for outdoor dining, bicycling, rollerblading and shopping and features and galleries of well known designers, artists and photographers such as Romero Britto, Peter Lik, and Jonathan Adler\r
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Miami Beach was incorporated on March 26, 1915. The municipality is located on a variety of natural and man-made barrier islands between the Atlantic Ocean and Biscayne Bay, the latter of which separates the Beach from Miami. The neighborhood of South Beach, comprising the southernmost 2.5 square miles (6.5 km2) of Miami Beach, along with downtown Miami and the Port of Miami, collectively form the commercial center of South Florida. As of the new census, Miami Beach had a total population of 87,779. It has been one of Americas pre-eminent beach resorts since the early 20th century.\r
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In 1979, Miami Beachs 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 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 Districts architectural heritage was led by former interior designer Barbara Capitman, who now has a street in the District named in her honor.\r
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Points of interest:\r
Fillmore Miami Beach at the Jackie Gleason Theatre\r
Eden Roc (hotel)\r
Flagler Monument Island\r
Fontainebleau Hotel\r
Versace Mansion (Casa Casuarina)\r
Holocaust Memorial\r
Lincoln Road\r
Miami Beach Architectural District\r
Miami Beach Botanical Garden\r
Ocean Drive\r
South Beach\r
Wolfsonian-FIU Museum\r
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