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Miami has received $60 million for a new park in Overtown designed to alleviate some of the isolation brought by construction of Interstates 95 and 395 in the 1960s, which devastated what was once ...
Overtown is a neighborhood of Miami, Florida, United States, just northwest of Downtown Miami.Originally called Colored Town in the Jim Crow era of the late 19th through the mid-20th century, the area was once the preeminent and is the historic center for commerce in the black community in Miami and South Florida.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the proposed park in Overtown, police have cleared homeless encampments, making way for the construction of the highway and The Underdeck. The Underdeck vs. The ...
Titled “Anything but a Slum: Miami-Overtown Before I-95/395,” the exhibition runs through Friday, Nov. 1, offering an exploration of a community that flourished despite systemic challenges.
Map of the city of Miami. Map of Miami neighborhoods. This is a list of neighborhoods in Miami in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States. Many of the city's neighborhoods have been renamed, redefined and changed since the city's founding in 1896. As such, the exact extents of some neighborhoods can differ from person to person.
Miami-Dade Expressway Authority (MDX) The Midtown Interchange , [ 1 ] [ 2 ] located in the Civic Center and Overtown [ 3 ] neighborhoods of Miami , Florida , is the convergence of three major motorways: I-95 , I-395 (which connects to the MacArthur Causeway to the east), and the Dolphin Expressway (SR 836) .
The Golden Glades is known as the spaghetti bowl in North Miami-Dade, where I-95, Florida’s Turnpike, U.S. 441 and State Road 826 converge in one clump of immobility.
The 1982 Overtown riot was a period of civil unrest in Miami, Florida, United States, from December 28 to 30, 1982.The riot was caused by the shooting death of an African American man in the city's Overtown neighborhood by a Latino police officer on December 28, leading to three days of disorder that resulted in one additional death, numerous injuries and arrests, and widespread property damage.