. Downtown Miami is the historic heart of Miami and along with Coconut Grove is the oldest settled area of Miami with early pioneer settlement dating to the early 19th century Urban development began in the 1890s with the construction of the Florida East Coast Railway by Standard Oil industrialist Henry Flagler down to Miami at the insistence of Julia Tuttle Flagler along with developers such as William Brickell and George E Merrick helped bring developer interest to the city with the construction of hotels resorts homes and the extension of Flagler's rail line Flagler Street originating in Downtown is a major east-west road in Miami named after the tycoon; the Julia Tuttle Causeway crossing Biscayne Bay just north of Downtown in Edgewater is named in honor of Tuttle, School of International and Public Affairs Building 2010.
After desegregation Bethune Elementary was converted into a head-start school; Other major newspapers include Miami Today headquartered in Brickell Miami New Times headquartered in Midtown Miami Sun Post South Florida Business Journal Miami Times and Biscayne Boulevard Times an additional Spanish-language newspapers Diario Las Americas also serve Miami the Miami Herald is Miami's primary newspaper with over a million readers and is headquartered in Downtown in Herald Plaza Several other student newspapers from the local universities such as the oldest the University of Miami's the Miami Hurricane Florida International University's the Beacon Miami-Dade College's the Metropolis Barry University's the Buccaneer amongst others Many neighborhoods and neighboring areas also have their own local newspapers such as the Aventura News Coral Gables Tribune Biscayne Bay Tribune and the Palmetto Bay News! . . . Miami Jewelry District Wertheim Conservatory 1991, Club Sport League Venue (Capacity) Attendance League Championships The political make-up of congressional and legislative districts has enabled Republicans to control the governorship and most statewide elective offices and 17 of the state's 27 seats in the 2012 House of Representatives Florida has been listed as a swing state in Presidential elections since 1952 voting for the losing candidate only twice in that period of time. Main article: Florida Bay Immanuel Lutheran Church National protected areas In its 2018 ParkScore ranking the Trust for Public Land reported that the park system in the City of Miami was the 50th best park system among the 100 most populous US cities down slightly from 48th place in the 2017 ranking ParkScore ranks urban park systems by a formula that analyzes median park size park acres as percent of city area the percent of city residents within a half-mile of a park spending of park services per resident and the number of playgrounds per 10,000 residents. Elementary schools 2000 U.S Census Choice of entry mode in international business.
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