Metrorail has stops throughout Miami with connections to Miami International Airport all Metrobus lines Tri-Rail and Amtrak the main bus station in Downtown is located next to the Arsht Center at the Adrienne Arsht Center Station. Income: the median income of households in the Miami area was $43,091 78% of the households received earnings and 13% received retirement income other than Social Security 30% of the households received Social Security the average income from Social Security was $13 These income sources are not mutually exclusive; that is some households received income from more than one source. From the Glades peoples two major nations emerged in the area: the Calusa and the Tequesta the Calusa was the largest and most powerful nation in South Florida it controlled fifty villages located on Florida's west coast around Lake Okeechobee and on the Florida Keys Most Calusa villages were located at the mouths of rivers or on key islands the Calusa were hunter-gatherers who lived on small game fish turtles alligators shellfish and various plants Most of their tools were made of bone or teeth although sharpened reeds were also effective for hunting or war Calusa weapons consisted of bows and arrows atlatls and spears Canoes were used for transportation and South Florida tribes often canoed through the Everglades but rarely lived in them Canoe trips to Cuba were also common, Downtown has three U.S historic districts the Downtown Miami Commercial Historic District the Downtown Miami Historic District and the Lummus Park Historic District. The rail line being renovated in November 2011, Miami Seaquarium As of 2010 those of African ancestry accounted for 19.2% of Miami's population Of the city's total population 5.6% were West Indian or Afro-Caribbean American origin (4.4% Haitian 0.4% Jamaican 0.4% Bahamian 0.1% British West Indian and 0.1% Trinidadian and Tobagonian 0.1% Other or Unspecified West Indian) 3.0% were Black Hispanics and 0.4% were Subsaharan African origin. History 1 History Although scientists made headway in decreasing mercury and phosphorus levels in water the natural environment of South Florida continued to decline in the 1990s and life in nearby cities reflected this downturn to address the deterioration of the Miami metropolitan area Governor Lawton Chiles commissioned a report on the sustainability of the area in 1995 Chiles published the commission's findings in a report that related the degradation of the Everglades ecosystems to the lower quality of life in urban areas the report noted past environmental abuses that brought the state to a position to make a decision Not acting to improve the South Florida ecosystem the report predicted would inevitably cause further and intolerable deterioration that would harm local tourism by 12,000 jobs and $200 million annually and commercial fishing by 3,300 jobs and $52 million annually Urban areas had grown beyond their capacities to sustain themselves Crowded cities were facing problems such as high crime rates traffic jams severely overcrowded schools and overtaxed public services; the report noted that water shortages were ironic given the 53 inches (130 cm) of rain the region received annually. She tried to persuade railroad magnate Henry Flagler to expand his rail line the Florida East Coast Railway southward to the area but he initially declined in December 1894 Florida was struck by a freeze that destroyed virtually the entire citrus crop in the northern half of the state a few months later on the night of February 7 1895 the northern part of Florida was hit by another freeze that wiped out the remaining crops and the new trees Unlike most of the rest of the state the Miami area was unaffected Tuttle wrote to Flagler again asking him to visit the area and to see it for himself Flagler sent James E Ingraham to investigate and he returned with a favorable report and a box of orange blossoms to show that the area had escaped the frost Flagler followed up with his own visit and concluded at the end of his first day that the area was ripe for expansion He made the decision to extend his railroad to Miami and build a resort hotel. . Enterprise Florida the state's economic development agency identifies "Southeast Florida" as one of eight economic regions used by the agency and other state and outside entities including the Florida Department of Transportation Some entities alternately designate this region "South Florida" Its definition includes much of the same territory as Lamme and Oldakowski's report (except the Gulf Coast and much of the interior Glades region) as well as additional area it includes Monroe County (the Keys) and the three metropolitan counties of Miami-Dade Broward and Palm Beach, Parks As seen in 2006 the high-rise construction in Miami has inspired popular opinion of "Miami manhattanization", This is a native dialect of English not learner English or interlanguage; it is possible to differentiate this variety from an interlanguage spoken by second-language speakers in that the "Miami accent" does not generally display the following features: there is no addition of /?/ before initial consonant clusters with /s/ speakers do not confuse of /d?/ with /j/ (e.g Yale with jail) and /r/ and /rr/ are pronounced as alveolar approximant [?] instead of alveolar tap [?] or alveolar trill [r] in Spanish.
Greenacres Legend 2010 Census Miami Miami-Dade County Florida Miami Florida Business directory Education A century after Columbus' first voyage large parts of the New World had been included into the Spanish Empire. 2.3 Recent history and Arthur Teele suicide, Martinaire School of Journalism and Mass Communication, FIU's founding president Charles "Chuck" Perry was appointed by the Board of Regents in July 1969 after a nationwide search at 32 years old the new president was the youngest in the history of the State University System and at the time the youngest university president in the country Perry recruited three co-founders Butler Waugh Donald McDowell and Nick Sileo Alvah Chapman Jr former Miami Herald publisher and Knight Ridder chairman used his civic standing and media power to assist the effort in the 1980s Chapman became chair of the FIU Foundation Board of Trustees. Area 380 acres (1,500,000 m2) Ocean Ridge Grade 6: 25,784 Arts & Entertainment District Brickell Coconut Grove Coral Way Downtown Miami Edgewater Midtown Miami Park West and the Upper Eastside. . .
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