5 Facts About Miami Beach

1. City of Miami Beach accounts for more than half of tourism to Miami Dade County.

2. Miami Beach is home to the New World Symphony, established in 1987 under the artistic direction of Michael Tilson Thomas.

3. Miami Beach is a magnet for Jewish families, retirees, and particularly snowbirds when the cold winter sets in to the north.

4. Miami Beach is home to a number of Orthodox Jewish communities with a network of well-established synagogues and yeshivas, the first of which being the Landow Yeshiva, a Chabad institution in operation for over 30 years.

5. Town of Miami Beach was chartered on March 26, 1915; it grew to become a City in 1917.