places to eat and drink and you're never
quite sure what you're going to see here or
who you're going to run into, and the Art
Deco architecture is something you'll nev-
er grow tired of. But the locals will tell you
that the bacchanalia is getting to be a bit
much. You probably don't want to come all
the way to Miami Beach and feel like you're
19 again and on spring break.
"It has just gotten to the point where the
place has become a 24-hour carnival-like
crime-ridden circus, where public safety
is no longer ensured," Mitch Novick, who
owns the Sherbrooke Hotel around the cor-
ner on Collins Avenue, told the New York
Times. "I'm witnessing the blighting of my
neighborhood, which was once paradise. In-
ternational tourists who used to come here
in droves avoid this place like the plague.
Noise is what fuels all of the riffraff. They
need to take the party off the street."
So go to Ocean Avenue, but don't feel
guilty if you don't stay long. Remember,
there are always those four pools awaiting
you back at the 1 Hotel.
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