South Beach
In both daytime and at nightfall, the South Beach section of Miami Beach is a major entertainment destination with hundreds of nightclubs, restaurants, boutiques and hotels. The area is popular with tourists from Canada, Europe, Israel and the entire Western Hemisphere, with some having permanent or second homes there.
For fera, the South Beach is the location of one of the two caerns in Miami: Beacon Solar, a green energy company in South Beach, is run by the Sept of the Clear Water. The lines drawn between vampire and fera are dire, and they both guard the boundaries with ferocity, though both sides are wary of all out war.
The vampires of South Beach are mainly Gangrel and Tremere, though there is a healthy gaggle of Tzimisce, including the Bishop of South Beach: The Black Pearl. It is a dangerous place for mortals, no question.
However, for the satyrs and selkies, the South Beach neighborhood is an area of great fun and games - glamour and drink flow as one, and they frolick happily amongst the humans who dot the shores, eager to squeeze every last bit of fun from this place.
Demographics
In 2000, 55% of residents of the city of Miami Beach spoke Spanish as a first language, while English was the first language for 33% of the population. Portuguese (mainly Brazilian Portuguese) was spoken by 3% of residents, while French (including Canadian French) was spoken by 2%, and German by 1%. Italian, Russian, Yiddish and Hebrew were all spoken by less than 1%.
Geography
South Beach is traversed by numerical streets which run east–west, starting with Biscayne Street, now popularly known as South Pointe Drive. It also has 13 principal roads and avenues running north–south, which, from the Biscayne Bay side, are:
- Bay Road
- West Avenue
- Alton Road
- Lenox Avenue
- Michigan Avenue
- Jefferson Avenue
- Meridian Avenue
- Euclid Avenue
- Pennsylvania Avenue
- Drexel Avenue
- Washington Avenue
- Collins Avenue (State Road A1A)
- Ocean Drive
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SoBe
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