Palm Island | |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | United States |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Name1: | Florida |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Miami-Dade County |
Subdivision Type3: | City |
Subdivision Name3: | Miami Beach |
Leader Title: | Miami Beach Mayor |
Leader Name: | Dan Gelber |
Leader Title1: | Miami-Dade County Commissioner |
Leader Name1: | Bruno Barreiro |
Leader Title2: | House of Representatives |
Leader Name2: | Fabián Basabe (R) |
Leader Title3: | State Senate |
Leader Name3: | Ileana Garcia (R) |
Leader Title4: | U.S. House |
Leader Name4: | Frederica Wilson (D) |
Established Date: | 1922 |
Area Total Sq Mi: | 0.129 |
Area Land Sq Mi: | 0.129 |
Area Water Sq Mi: | 0.0 |
Area Water Percent: | 0.0 |
Population As Of: | 2010 |
Population Total: | 329 |
Timezone: | EST |
Utc Offset: | −5 |
Postal Code Type: | ZIP Code |
Postal Code: | 33139 |
Area Code: | 305, 786 |
Palm Island is a neighborhood in the city of Miami Beach on a man-made island in Biscayne Bay, Florida, United States;[1] just south of Hibiscus Island. It is a residential neighborhood with high property values, solely accessible by land via the MacArthur Causeway. The entire island has an area of .
The dredging which created the reclaimed land on which Palm Island sits was completed in 1922 by the Army Corps of Engineers, work which completed Hibiscus Island and Star Island the same year.
The island's most notorious resident was Al Capone, who bought a summer home there in 1928 for $40,000. He then spent another $200,000 on expansions and refurbishments. After having been released from prison in 1939 he lived there permanently until his death in 1947. The Al Capone home was bought by a property developer for $10.75 million in 2021.[2]
Palm Island is zoned to schools in the Miami-Dade County Public Schools.
Zoned schools include: