North Bay Village is a city located in Miami-Dade County, Florida. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 6,733. As of 2010, the population recorded by the U.S. Census Bureau was 7,137.
North Bay Village is located at 25°50?44?N 80°09?13?W.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 0.837 square miles (2.17 km2). 0.3322 square miles (0.860 km2) of it is land and 0.5048 square miles (1.307 km2) of it is water. The total area is 60.31% water.
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Surrounding areas
- Biscayne Bay
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History
Prior to 1940, most of what is now North Bay Village lay beneath the waters of Biscayne Bay. The only dry land was Broadcast Key, a 5-acre (20,000 m2) island from which pioneer radio station WIOD began broadcasting in 1926. Today, television station WSVN-TV maintains its headquarters at this same site, now joined with Treasure Island.
In 1940, dredging and bulk-heading created North Bay Island. By 1941, palm-lined streets had been laid out, and 12 homes had been built and occupied. Today, the island has grown into a lush neighborhood of attractive single-family residences.
During the mid-1940s, dredging and filling created Harbor Island and Treasure Island. Harbor Island is composed primarily of multi-family buildings. Treasure Island, whose street names were drawn from Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Treasure Island, is a mixture of single-family dwellings on the westerly end and multi-family dwellings on the eastern end.
North Bay Village was incorporated in 1945. Harbor and Treasure Islands were annexed several years later. Broadcast Key, also known as Cameo Island, was annexed in 1963. During its early years, North Bay Village was primarily a haven for winter residents. The City became widely known for its popular restaurants and nightclubs, which attracted celebrities like Frank Sinatra and Judy Garland. Dean Martin had a night-club in North Bay Village in the late 1960s and early 1970s called Dino's. It was next to Jilly Rizzo's club, Jilly's.
Most of today's residents live here year-round. North Bay Village continues to be home to several of South Florida's most popular restaurants, as well as a variety of business enterprises, apartment buildings, condominiums and 376 single-family homes."
Most construction in North Bay Village since the year 2000 has been in the development of high-rise luxury condominium buildings.
Demographics
As of 2010, there were 4,572 households out of which 26.4% were vacant. In 2000, 21.6% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 32.7% were married couples living together, 11.2% had a female householder with no husband present, and 51.5% were non-families. 38.7% of all households were made up of individuals and 8.4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.10 and the average family size was 2.85.
In 2000, the city population was spread out with 16.8% under the age of 18, 8.8% from 18 to 24, 42.0% from 25 to 44, 20.2% from 45 to 64, and 12.1% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 35 years. For every 100 females there were 100.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 100.4 males.
In 2000, the median income for a household in the city was $34,354, and the median income for a family was $37,931. Males had a median income of $31,740 versus $27,234 for females. The per capita income for the city was $21,017. 12.9% of the population and 7.8% of families were below the poverty line. Out of the total population, 13.6% of those under the age of 18 and 9.3% of those 65 and older were living below the poverty line.
As of 2000, speakers of Spanish as a first language was spoken by 53.30%, while English accounted for 33.40%, Portuguese was 9.11%, French at 1.35%, and Italian was at 1.16% of the population.
As of 2000, North Bay Village had the second highest percentage of Brazilian residents in the US, with 6.00% of the US populace (only the borough of East Newark, New Jersey had a higher percentage, at 6.20% of US residents.) It had the eighteenth highest percentage of Colombian residents in the US, at 5.29% of the village's population (tied with Fontainebleau), and the thirty-eighth highest percentage of Cuban residents in the US, at 12.67% of the its population. It also had the seventeenth most Dominicans in the US, at 1.84% (tied with Portland, New York,) while it had the twenty-third highest percentage of Peruvians, at 2.17% of all residents. North Bay Village's Venezuelan community had the fifth highest percentage of residents, which was at 2.15% of the population.
Economy
Among the companies based in North Bay Village are the cable channel GOL TV. WIOD Radio, had been based at North Bay Village for years before being consolidated with other radio facilities in Broward County. Signage for WIOD can still be seen on buildings occupied by WSVN-TV, the Fox affiliate for the region. WSVN has maintained its studios in North Bay Village since the early 1980s. North Bay Village is often labeled the "Radio City of South Florida" due to its broadcasting legacy. (WIOD and WSVN began as affiliates of NBC.)
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