At Home with the Flow
North Beach has a certain flow. It's the kind of place where traffic and people congest the neighborhood streets and sidewalks, and there's a real arterial feel. So even as we sit and congregate at restaurants, bars and coffee shops, planning our next walk upon the sand, it somehow seems as if we're all just passing through.
Northbound Collins, the main vein, is an oceanfront semi-expressway lined with high rise condos and hotels, many lying in a state of decay only slightly masked by the intent of redevelopment and signs meant to entice passersby to cash in on pre-construction savings. The Beatles stayed here in the 60s, and now developers call the style of architecture MiMo, or Miami Modern. Some new buildings are actually under construction, and a new luxury set moving into four new high rise developments could change the otherwise workforce aspect of this area within the next year.
By now I've lived in nearly all the extremities of NoBe, South Beach's oft ...