Biscayne Boulevard
Biscayne Boulevard is major thoroughfare and off-grid road in Miami and Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States. A part of U.S. Route 1, the road begins just north of the mouth of the Miami River, starting at Southeast Fourth Street in Downtown Miami, continuing north to the Broward County line.
Route
It is an off-grid plan main north–south thoroughfare that intersects both streets and avenues. Biscayne Boulevard begins at Southeast Fourth Street, at the Brickell Avenue Bridge, going north through the central business district of Downtown. South of the bridge, US Route 1 is known as Brickell Avenue and South Dixie Highway.
It continues north, taking the place of Northeast Third Avenue until crossing Northeast 36th Street (US 27, where it curves northeast in the Wynwood, paralleling North Federal Highway until Northeast 61st Street, where it continues north.
Moving further inland, the Boulevard replaces Northeast Sixth Avenue at 61st Street. It enters suburban Miami Shores at Northeast 87th Street and enters the village of Miami Shores. Crossing the Biscayne Canal, Miami Shores becomes North Miami.
The road passes enters Aventura at Greynolds Park. It continues north-northeast through the city of Aventura, curving due north at Northeast 187th Street and northeast at Northeast 203rd Street. It continues northeast a short distance until it crosses County Line Road into Broward County at Hallandale Beach and becoming South Federal Highway.
Biscayne Boulevard is home to the majority of consulates-general based in Miami, including that of Germany and France.
Popular culture
The boulevard featured in the 2006 film Casino Royale and is noted in the stage version of A Streetcar Named Desire.
Gallery
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Miami's first automobile on Biscayne Boulevard, c. 1899
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View northwestward of Biscayne Boulevard and Bayfront Park after the 1926 Miami hurricane -
View of Biscayne Boulevard and Bayfront Park northward, 1930 -
Bicycles riding north on Biscayne Boulevard near the Freedom Tower, circa 1940s -
View westward of the intersection of Flagler Street and Biscayne Boulevard, 1958 -
Stretch of Biscayne Boulevard looking south, just north of Downtown, 2006
