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Miami neighborhoods

Miami is a set of very different places stacked close together. A guarded island with deep-water docks is fifteen minutes from a warehouse district full of galleries. Here is how we would pick between them.

Bal Harbour luxury villa rental

Bal Harbour

Bal Harbour occupies the last ten blocks of Miami Beach before Haulover Cut. It is quiet by design: a village of a few...

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Brickell luxury villa rental 1 villa

Brickell

Miami's banking towers stand along Brickell Avenue, and the neighborhood around them has turned residential: about for...

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Coconut Grove luxury villa rental 2 villas

Coconut Grove

The Grove predates the city itself, settled by Bahamian and New England families in the 1870s and still shaded by the...

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Coral Gables luxury villa rental 2 villas

Coral Gables

George Merrick laid out Coral Gables in the 1920s with coral rock entrances, plazas and a rule book for facades the ci...

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Downtown Miami luxury villa rental 3 villas

Downtown Miami

Downtown is the part of Miami that runs on foot. Bayfront Park, Bayside Marketplace, the Kaseya Center and the Metromo...

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Edgewater luxury villa rental

Edgewater

Edgewater runs along Biscayne Bay from roughly 17th Street to 37th, one block deep in places and mostly new. Towers we...

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Hibiscus Island luxury villa rental

Hibiscus Island

Hibiscus is the smaller of the two islands behind the Palm Island guard gate, dredged out of Biscayne Bay in the 1920s...

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Las Olas luxury villa rental 2 villas

Las Olas

Las Olas Boulevard connects downtown Fort Lauderdale to the beach in about two miles, crossing the Isles on the way. T...

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Mid-Beach luxury villa rental

Mid-Beach

Mid-Beach covers the forty blocks between the end of South Beach and the North Beach line, roughly 24th Street to 63rd...

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Palm Island luxury villa rental

Palm Island

The bridge off the MacArthur Causeway lands on Palm Island, where a gatehouse checks every vehicle. Beyond it are a co...

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Pinecrest luxury villa rental

Pinecrest

Pinecrest is the suburb Miami families move to for the lot sizes. Zoning keeps most parcels at an acre, so houses sit...

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Star Island luxury villa rental

Star Island

One road circles Star Island, and a guardhouse at the causeway bridge controls who drives onto it. Fewer than forty es...

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Sunny Isles Beach luxury villa rental

Sunny Isles Beach

A two-mile strip of oceanfront towers between Haulover Cut and the Broward line, Sunny Isles Beach holds one of the de...

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Venetian Islands luxury villa rental 3 villas

Venetian Islands

Six islands sit in a line between Edgewater and Miami Beach, connected by the Venetian Causeway and its twelve small b...

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Wynwood luxury villa rental

Wynwood

Twenty years ago this was a garment and produce district. The warehouses stayed and the walls got painted, starting wi...

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