The curfew will close part of South Beach. The rest of Miami Beach will remain open
As any Miami Beach resident can tell you (usually through gritted teeth), South Beach is not Miami Beach. And Miami Beach wants folks to know it’s still open and accepting money from visitors, even after the weekend curfew.
Just not from Thursday through Sunday after 8 p.m. in the area covered by the reaction to Spring Break mayhem.
Miami Beach city commissioners lamented on Sunday’s special commission call that potential visitors would think the curfew closing the “High Impact Zone” — Ocean Drive, Collins Avenue, Washington Avenue and Pennsylvania Avenue from Fifth Street to 16th Street — means Miami Beach as a whole would come to a stop.
Actually, that’s not even true for the whole of South Beach. For one thing, the restaurants in the curfew area can still deliver.
Lincoln Road: The restaurants and shops of South Beach’s iconic open-air mall between 16th Street and 17th Street and running from Alton Road to Washington Avenue remain open.
North Beach: The cool kids live, eat and beach north of 71st Street these days.
South of Fifth Street: None of the places in the southernmost part of Miami Beach are affected by the curfew. If you don’t want to wait for the summer solstice to be seated at Prime 112 or Joe’s Stone Crab, do what locals do — slide over to Prime Italian or Joe’s Take Away.
Sunset Harbour: Over on the bay side of South Beach, this residential area from 17th Street to 20th Street between Alton Road and Biscayne Bay keeps adding restaurants you can hit after kayaking or paddleboarding. And, if you get towed, it’s a two-block walk, maximum, to either Tremont Towing or Beach Towing.
This story was originally published March 22, 2021 at 4:44 PM.
