. ; Miami-Dade Fire Rescue is also the home to Urban Search and Rescue Florida Task Force 1 as well as EMS operations consisting of 57 Advanced Life Support units staffed by 760 state-certified paramedics and 640 state-certified emergency medical technicians, 1 History 4.1.1 Notes Booker T Washington High School founded in 1926, 1940 172,172 55.6% 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. Miami attracts a large number of musicians singers actors dancers and orchestral players the city has numerous orchestras symphonies and performing art conservatories These include the Florida Grand Opera FIU School of Music Frost School of Music and the New World School of the Arts, Together the entire FIU university-wide Library holdings include over 2,097,207 volumes 52,511 current serials 3,587,663 microform units and 163,715 audio visual units. Government Center is one of the main stations for Metrorail and Metromover A sign advertising the completion of the Herbert Hoover Dike. 6.1 Central Atlantic Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts Miami (private), Year Democratic Republican Ten Thousand Islands Julia Tuttle the founder of Miami. See also: List of colleges and universities in Florida List of high schools in Florida and List of school districts in Florida, Gordon Day School (Jewish), Germany 1,322,000,000 1,145,973,941.19 7.77 6.26 16th to 18th centuries: Early Spanish settlement; Asian: 2.5% [151,537] Over 87.2% of all foreigners residing in South Florida come from Latin America.
; Contents 3 Demographics Data is from the CIA World Factbook compiled in 2017:, Salinity Flagler Street in Downtown Miami, The Green Library is FIU's main library is the largest building on campus and one of the largest library buildings in the Southeastern United States Originally designed by Architect David M Harper in 1973 the Green Library was expanded by the architecture firm M C Harry & Associates Inc in the early 1990s to its current eight floors with a capacity to expand to a total of 15 floors if necessary the eight-floor structure was built over through and around the original three-story library while it was still in use. . Biological Sciences 218 University Park houses almost all of the university's colleges and schools as well as all the administrative offices and main university facilities University Park is also home to the Ronald Reagan Presidential House the home of FIU's president the Wertheim Performing Arts Center the Frost Art Museum the International Hurricane Research Center and the university's athletic facilities such as FIU Stadium FIU Arena and the FIU Baseball Stadium, Pompano Beach Airpark PPM KPMP Broward Bobby Maduro Miami Stadium. The Freedom Tower built in 1925 is a local historic landmark and a symbol of the city Grade 12: 26,392 OASIS is an interdisciplinary student group focused on supporting the growth of Christian professionals in the field of me]]ntal health. In 1936 Mr Hopkins (Lindsey Hopkins Jr.) and his father (Lindsey Hopkins Sr.) acquired the skeleton of the bankrupt unfinished Roosevelt Hotel at 1410 NE Second Ave at public auction for $38,000 They spent a million dollars fixing it up in 1941 four years after the elder Lindsey Hopkins' death Mr Hopkins sold the building to the School Board for $225,000 as a memorial to his father. 6.1 Roads Miami is a major center and leader in finance commerce culture media entertainment the arts and international trade the metro area is by far the largest urban economy in Florida and the 12th largest in the United States with a GDP of $344.9 billion as of 2017 in 2018 Miami was classified as an Alpha level global city by the GaWC in 2019 Miami ranked seventh in the United States and 31st among global cities in terms of business activity human capital information exchange cultural experience and political engagement According to a 2018 UBS study of 77 world cities the city was ranked as the third-richest in the United States and the eighth-richest in the world in terms of purchasing power Miami is nicknamed the "Capital of Latin America" and is the largest city with a Cuban-American plurality, Miami Design District, Pompano Beach 99,845 78,191 Broward The Miami Metropolitan Area has the highest GDP of all the metro areas in Florida with $344.9 billion in 2017 This is more than twice the number of the next metro area the Tampa Bay Area which has a GDP of $145.3 billion the economy of Florida is driven almost entirely by its nineteen metropolitan areas in 2004 they had a combined total of 95.7% of the state's domestic product. 1980s and 1990s 8 See also, Main University Park buildings, Main article: Geography and ecology of the Everglades.
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