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Hallandale Beach (formerly known simply as Hallandale) is a city in southern
Broward County, Florida
Broward County ( , ) is a county in the southeastern part of Florida, located in the Miami metropolitan area. It is Florida's second-most populous county after Miami-Dade County and the 17th-most populous in the United States, with over 1.94 m ...
, United States. The city is named after Luther Halland, the son of a
Swedish
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worker for Henry Flagler's
Florida East Coast Railroad
The Florida East Coast Railway is a Class II railroad operating in the U.S. state of Florida, currently owned by Grupo México.
Built primarily in the last quarter of the 19th century and the first decade of the 20th century, the FEC was a pro ...
.
As of the
2010 census, the population was 37,113.
The city is known as the home of
Gulfstream Park
Gulfstream Park, owned by The Stronach Group, is a Thoroughbred race track, casino and outdoor entertainment and shopping destination in Hallandale Beach, Florida. Thoroughbred horse racing occurs year-round, defined by three distinct race meets ...
(
horse racing
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and
casino
A casino is a facility for certain types of gambling. Casinos are often built near or combined with hotels, resorts, restaurants, retail shopping, cruise ships, and other tourist attractions. Some casinos are also known for hosting live entertai ...
) and
Mardi Gras Casino
The Big Easy Casino, formerly known as Mardi Gras Casino and Hollywood Greyhound Track, is a casino and formerly a greyhound racing facility located in Hallandale Beach, in the Florida, US. The casino features over 700 slot machines, virtual t ...
, a
greyhound racing
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track which hosts the World Classic. It also has a sizable financial district, with offices for a number of banks and brokerage houses, plus many restaurants. Due to the large number of tourists who eventually retire in the city, Hallandale Beach has one of the fastest-growing populations in
Broward County
Broward County ( , ) is a county in the southeastern part of Florida, located in the Miami metropolitan area. It is Florida's second-most populous county after Miami-Dade County and the 17th-most populous in the United States, with over 1.94 ...
and in
Metro Miami.
History
Hallandale Beach, like most of Broward County, had no permanent European-descended population until the end of the 19th century.
Seminole Indians
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, in settlements that lay inland of the Atlantic shore, hunted in the area and gathered
coontie
''Zamia integrifolia'', also known as coontie palm is a small, tough, woody cycad native to the southeastern United States (in Florida and Georgia), the Bahamas, Cuba, and the Cayman Islands.
Description
''Zamia integrifolia'' produces reddish ...
roots to produce arrowroot starch. The northern edge of Hallandale Beach (along Pembroke Road) still features noticeable hammocks, points elevated above sea level in the distant past.
Railroad magnate
Henry Flagler
Henry Morrison Flagler (January 2, 1830 – May 20, 1913) was an American industrialist and a founder of Standard Oil, which was first based in Ohio. He was also a key figure in the development of the Atlantic coast of Florida and founde ...
, owner of the
Florida East Coast Railway
The Florida East Coast Railway is a Class II railroad operating in the U.S. state of Florida, currently owned by Grupo México.
Built primarily in the last quarter of the 19th century and the first decade of the 20th century, the FEC was a pr ...
, recruited Luther Halland, a brother-in-law of Flagler's agents, to found a settlement south of the community of
Dania. Halland and Swedish immigrant Olaf Zetterlund touted the frost-free climate and cheap land of the settlement (then named Halland, later changed to Hallandale). Halland constructed a small trading post and became the first postmaster of the small community.
By 1900, the community had slowly grown to a dozen families—seven of
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, three of
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, and two of African descent. In 1904 the first school was built, and the first church followed two years later. Hallandale was primarily a farming community; the beach was undeveloped and used by the residents only for recreational purposes.
Hallandale was incorporated on 11 May 1927, the eighth municipality in Broward County. By that time, a thriving community of 1,500 residents, with electricity and street lights, was in place. In 1947, Hallandale was reincorporated as the City of Hallandale, allowing it to expand its borders through annexation of nearby unincorporated land lying adjacent to the Atlantic shore. On August 27, 1999, the city officially changed its name to Hallandale Beach.
Hurricane Katrina
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first made landfall between Hallandale Beach and
Aventura, Florida
Aventura is a planned, suburban city in northeastern Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States, 17 miles north of the city of Miami and part of the Miami metropolitan area. The city is especially well-known for Aventura Mall, the 5th largest ...
.
Hurricane Irma
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was originally expected to go right through Hallandale Beach, instead making landfall in
Key West
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, and once again in
Naples.
Geography
Hallandale Beach is located at .
According to the
United States Census Bureau
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, the city has a total area . of it is land and of it (7.47%) is water.
Hollywood
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is located north of Hallandale Beach,
Aventura in
Miami-Dade County
Miami-Dade County is a county located in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Florida. The county had a population of 2,701,767 as of the 2020 census, making it the most populous county in Florida and the seventh-most populous county in ...
is south of the city, the
Atlantic Ocean
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is to the east, and
Pembroke Park
Pembroke Park is a town in Broward County, Florida, United States. The town took its name from its location along Pembroke Road. As of the 2020 census, the population was 6,260. It is part of the South Florida metropolitan area, which was home to ...
is to the west.
Although it appears from a map that a small portion of the ''Golden Isles'' neighborhood extends into
Miami-Dade County
Miami-Dade County is a county located in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Florida. The county had a population of 2,701,767 as of the 2020 census, making it the most populous county in Florida and the seventh-most populous county in ...
, this land was actually transferred to Broward County, and annexed to Hallandale Beach in 1978.
Demographics
2020 census
As of the
2020 United States census
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, there were 41,217 people, 17,573 households, and 9,104 families residing in the city.
2010 census
As of 2012, excluding the
Canadian
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and
Hispanic and Latino
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population, 8.2% of the residents were of
West Indian or Caribbean ancestry, 5.3% were
American
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, 5.2% were
Russian
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, 3.4%
German
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**Ger ...
, 2.8%
Irish
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, and 2.7% of the populace shared
Polish
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ancestry.
There were 18,051 households, out of which 12.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 35.8% were married couples living together, 9.1% had a female householder with no husband present, and 51.8% were non-families. 45.2% of all households were made up of individuals, and 25.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 1.88 and the average family size was 2.60.
In the city, the population was spread out, with 13.2% under the age of 18, 5.3% from 18 to 24, 22.9% from 25 to 44, 22.8% from 45 to 64, and 35.8% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 53 years. For every 100 females, there were 85.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 82.6 males.
The median income for a household in the city was $28,266, and the median income for a family was $37,171. Males had a median income of $31,287 versus $24,882 for females. The
per capita income
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Per capita i ...
for the city was $22,464. About 13.1% of families and 16.8% of the population were below the
poverty line
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, including 26.4% of those under age 18 and 13.0% of those age 65 or over.
As of the year 2000,
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was spoken as a
first language
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by 59.66% of the population, while
Spanish
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**Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many Latin American countries
**Spanish cuisine
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* Spanish, Ontario, Cana ...
was spoken by 19.50% of the populace. In this "southernmost Canadian city"
French
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was spoken by 5.23% of the population, most of them
French Canadian
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s. Other languages spoken at home were
Romanian
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at 2.71%,
Italian
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at 1.96%,
French Creole at 1.80%,
Yiddish
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1.70%,
Russian
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*Rossiyane (), Russian language term for all citizens and peo ...
1.32%,
German
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**Ger ...
1.27%,
Hungarian at 1.17%,
Polish
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at 0.85%,
Hebrew
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at 0.77%, and
Portuguese
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, spoken by 0.72% of all residents.
Public schools
Hallandale Beach's public schools are part of
Broward County Public Schools
Broward County Public Schools is a public school district serving Broward County, Florida, is the List of the largest school districts in the United States by enrollment, sixth largest public school system in the nation. During the 2016–2017 sc ...
.
In almost all areas, elementary and middle school students are zoned for Gulfstream Academy of Hallandale Beach K–8. A portion of the city is zoned to Colbert Elementary School and McNicol Middle School. In all areas, high school students are zoned for
Hallandale High School
Hallandale High School is a public high school and magnet school located in Hallandale Beach, Florida. The school is a part of the Broward County Public Schools district and was established in 1973.
It serves: Hallandale Beach, Pembroke Park, a ...
. Private academies eschewing the public system are present in the area.
Media
Hallandale Beach is a part of the
Miami
Miami ( ), officially the City of Miami, known as "the 305", "The Magic City", and "Gateway to the Americas", is a East Coast of the United States, coastal metropolis and the County seat, county seat of Miami-Dade County, Florida, Miami-Dade C ...
-
Fort Lauderdale
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-
Hollywood
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* Hollywood District (disambiguation)
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media market, which is the 12th largest radio market and the 17th largest television market in the United States. Its primary daily newspapers are the ''
South Florida-Sun Sentinel'' and ''
The Miami Herald
The ''Miami Herald'' is an American daily newspaper owned by the McClatchy Company and headquartered in Doral, Florida, a city in western Miami-Dade County and the Miami metropolitan area, several miles west of Downtown Miami.[Spanish
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**Spanish cuisine
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* Spanish, Ontario, Cana ...]
-language counterparts ''
El Sentinel'' and ''
El Nuevo Herald
''El Nuevo Herald'' is a newspaper published daily in Spanish in Southeast Florida, United States. Its headquarters is in Doral. ''El Nuevo Heralds sister paper is the ''Miami Herald'', also produced by the McClatchy Company.
About ''el Nuevo H ...
''. The ''
Broward-Palm Beach New Times
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'', an alternative weekly, is widely available around the city. Hallandale Beach has its own newspaper, The South Florida Sun-Times which is published weekly.
Public transportation
Hallandale Beach is served by several bus routes operated by
Broward County Transit
Broward County Transit (also known as ''BCT'') is the public transit agency in Broward County, Florida. It is the second-largest transit system in Florida after Miami-Dade Transit. It currently operates the only public bus system in Broward Count ...
.
A free community minibus service, operated by the city of Hallandale Beach, also operates on four routes within the city limits and neighboring areas of Hollywood and Aventura.
Notable people
*
Iris Acker
Iris Acker (June 13, 1930 – September 16, 2018) was an American actress, television host, actors' union leader, television producer, artistic director, dancer and author. The ''Sun-Sentinel'' called Acker, who was based in South Florida, "one ...
(1930–2018), arts advocate, actress (''Flight of the Navigator''), dancer and television host
*
Stewart H. Appleby
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(1890–1964), represented from 1925–1927, and retired to Hallandale Beach
*
Morris Childs
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(1902–1991),
double agent
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for the
F.B.I.
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against the
Soviet Union
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. Childs lived in a Hallandale safe house from his retirement in 1986 until his death in 1991
*
Davin Joseph
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, 1st Round NFL Pick Tampa Bay Buccaneers 2006
*
Meyer Lansky
Meyer Lansky (born Maier Suchowljansky; July 4, 1902 – January 15, 1983), known as the "Mob's Accountant", was an American organized crime figure who, along with his associate Charles "Lucky" Luciano, was instrumental in the development of the ...
(1902–1983), Jewish gangster; financial wizard of the
National Crime Syndicate
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*
Anthony Provenzano
Anthony Provenzano (May 7, 1917 – December 12, 1988), also known as Tony Pro, was an American mobster who was a powerful caporegime in the Genovese crime family New Jersey faction. Provenzano was known for his associations with Jimmy Hoffa du ...
, mobster featured in the movie ''The Irishman''
[Lubasch, Arnold H]
"Provenzano Is Convicted in Hotel‐Loan Kickback Case; Another Indictment Still Pending; Kickback or Interest Rate?; Jury Sequestered Throughout"
''The New York Times
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'', March 26, 1978. Accessed January 13, 2020. "Mr. Provenzano served a prison Sentence and was barred from union office for five years because of a 1963 conviction for extortion. He lives in Clifton. N.J., and Hallandale, Fla."
See also
*
Hallandale Beach Police Department
The Hallandale Beach Police Department is the law enforcement agency of Hallandale Beach, Florida. Its headquarters is located in a municipal building at 400 South Federal Highway, Hallandale Beach, FL 33009. In 2022, the chief of police is Miche ...
References
External links
City of Hallandale Beachofficial site
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