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The Miami Herald 's headquarters on Biscayne Bay in Downtown Miami from March 1963 until May 2013, when the building was sold to a Malaysian company for $236 million and demolished; the Miami Herald is now headquartered in Doral, about 13 miles from Downtown Miami. Greater Miami is served by several English-language and two major Spanish ...
YMCA, sometimes regionally called the Y, is a worldwide youth organization based in Geneva, Switzerland, with more than 64 million beneficiaries in 120 countries.It has nearly 90,000 staff, some 920,000 volunteers and 12,000 branches worldwide. [1]
YMCA of Greater Seattle turned its former residence into transitional housing for former foster care and currently homeless youth, aged 18 to 25. This YMCA operates six transitional housing programs and 20 studio apartments. These services are offered at their Young Adult drop-in center in Seattle, Washington. [17]
More than 900 donors and guests were expected to attend the largest single fundraising event in Miami-Dade’s Jewish community, including Israel’s former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett.
At 11 a.m. Dec. 4, The Greater Miami Jewish Federation will host an event in recognition of Yom Plitim with the Israeli Consulate of Miami and Sephardi Voices. Juliette Glasser, who is Egyptian ...
The first YMCA indoor pool in the United States was built in 1885, in Brooklyn, New York. [40]: 154 Male nudity was required at YMCA pools in both the US and Canada until they became mixed-gender in the 1970s. [54] The downtown Miami YMCA, built in 1918 and demolished in 1978, featured what was considered a modern swimming pool at the time.
The Sand in My Shoes award was established by the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce in 1981. The award takes its name from a live broadcast from downtown Miami on Dec. 31, 1981.
Greater Miami is home to many college sports teams with football and basketball having preeminent status. The most prominent are the University of Miami Hurricanes whose football team plays at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens and whose men's and women's basketball teams play at Watsco Center on the University of Miami's campus in Coral Gables.