It’s no secret that Miami’s high cost of living is one of the biggest problems in the metro area. With median rent for a one-bedroom apartment at nearly $2,000, the county’s millennial population has largely fled. A 2012 study found that Miami is the least affordable city in the entire country…
Driving in Miami is pretty much its own punchline. You’re on your way to work, or the plastic surgeon’s office, or your meth dealer’s apartment, trying to be all zen about the traffic, when suddenly some idiot cuts you off and damn near causes an accident. There’s a reason Florida…
On a stage in Staten Island almost 30 years ago, a host grabbed the mike and announced the next performer, a Haitian classical guitarist. “One of the world’s finest guitarists, Daniel Coulanges,” he said. “Please welcome Mr. Coulanges.” Wearing a charcoal-gray suit and a black bow tie, Coulanges took a…
Earlier this week, the North Miami Police Department set up a hotline to field calls from people about the July 18 police shooting of behavioral therapist Charles Kinsey. New Times listened to roughly 50 of the calls posted on the department’s website, and not one showed support for the cops…
A few months ago, a group of Miami Beach police officers homeless listed the city’s most troubled homeless people — those who lived on the streets, were in poor health, and were severely dependent on alcohol. Those on the list had consistently refused offers of treatment or shelter, and it didn’t…
A former reporter for Fox News in Miami is being held without bail after he was indicted Tuesday in Virginia on charges of forcible sodomy and rape. Orlando Salinas, who left Fox in 2012 for a job at Roanoke’s CBS affiliate, was booked into the Montgomery County jail last night. Few…
When Justin Bieber gets in a jam or things get a little too wild for Girls Gone Wild head honcho Joe Francis, they know who to call: Miami criminal defense attorney Roy Black. The famed attorney has represented scores of celebrity clients, appeared on “The Law Firm,” a short-lived legal version…
An English-speaking teacher says Miami-Dade County School Board discriminated against her by not hiring her for a job. The position? Teaching an hour of Spanish per day. Tracy Rosner, a third-grade teacher at Coral Reef Elementary, filed a federal lawsuit in the Southern District of Florida last week claiming employment…
Seventeen years ago, Michelle Salem moved into her home on Bay Drive in Normandy Isle next to what she thought was a regular apartment building. But as she later found out, the building was actually being used to house recovering drug addicts. In her time next to the apartments, Salem’s…
Late last month, Anthony Apfelbeck, a fire marshal and building official in the Central Florida city of Altamonte Springs, sent a link to a story about sea-level rise to a listserve for the Building Officials Association of Florida, an email group where contractors, architects, and building officials connect to answer…
Like a group of teenagers playing hooky, they roam the streets hooting and hollering, trespassing through backyards and having sex in inappropriate places. Their strength is in numbers, and these peacocks roll deep. “They’re beautiful animals and in the beginning, they’re nice,” says Coconut Grove resident Danny Mugnai. And then comes…
Sherbrooke Hotel owner Mitch Novick woke up Friday to news of three robberies on South Beach. Novick, an outspoken critic of what he calls “a crisis situation of utter lawlessness” on Ocean Drive, was incensed, calling crime on the stretch a “cancer.” He didn’t have to wait long for a…
Nicklaus Children’s Hospital is on lockdown while Miami-Dade police investigate reports of an active shooter and a bomb threat, according to the department’s Twitter feed. The threat was reported around 3 p.m. “Precautionary measures” are being taken to ensure the safety of patients, doctors, and visitors. A hospital representative tells…
Exactly one year ago today, Ruben Sebastian was driving across the Rickenbacker Causeway with a trunk full of groceries in his Chevy HHR station wagon. Sebastian, who at that time was an armed security guard for Miami-Dade County, had been earning some extra cash by delivering groceries and was in…
If you’re living in South Florida, by now you’ve probably come around to the idea of climate change and realized that, like it or not, sea levels are rising. But solutions to the problem are pricey, and there’s no clear consensus for how we’re all going to pay for the…
Earlier this year, a Delray Beach-based Bitcoin exchange company called Cryptsy abruptly shut down, locking hundreds of thousands of users out of the system and leaving them no way to withdrawal their digital currencies. In January, Broward County attorney David Silver filed a class-action lawsuit against Cryptsy and its owner,…
With Election Day rapidly approaching, Desmond Meade’s calendar has been jam-packed with political rallies and fundraising galas. In the past few months, the Miami native has been a part of a handful of panel discussions about reforming the criminal justice system, appeared as a guest on MSNBC, and headed to…
Time took its toll on the Dorsey Memorial Library as it sat vacant in Overtown for more than 50 years. Over time, its walls were covered in graffiti. A fire burned through most of the interior. Termites have eaten their way through the rotting wood like a giant buffet. Last year,…
On a Sunday afternoon back in December 2014, Charlie Silberman boarded a county bus at the Omni Bus Terminal with his psychiatric service dog, Oscar. He was grateful for the ride — at that point Silberman says he had already watch two separate buses pass him by. But as he…
Two men burst into a suburban Delray Beach office park on a muggy weekday in August 2014, demanding to talk to the CEO. They were there to get answers. In a beige office lobby decorated with abstract IKEA-style art, their target crossed his arms and smiled nervously. Dressed in an…
About a year ago, 21-year-old Oscar Yglesias started filming a cop after his mom got pulled over in traffic. The officer was not a fan of the camera. According to Yglesias, the cop threatened to ticket them for cutting him off. “It was actually the opposite. He cut us off,”…
Around 9:30 one night back in March, residents in a Palmetto Bay neighborhood called police about a man who was outside apparently smashing car windows and puncturing car tires with a pick-axe. Officers quickly arrived to investigate and soon traced the suspect, 25-year-old Ethan Rincon, to his home on Southwest…
