Collins Avenue
Pastel Art Deco, palms and convertibles on a live webcam over the street through South Beach.
About this view
Collins Avenue is the spine of South Beach, running the length of Miami Beach one block back from the sand. The camera looks out over the corner of it that sits inside the Art Deco Historic District: roughly 800 preserved buildings from the 1930s, one of the densest concentrations of the style anywhere, and the reason this neighbourhood looks like nowhere else in America.
The street performs in shifts. Convertibles and scooters crawl past in daylight, beachgoers cross with towels and folding chairs, and the pastel facades pick up whatever the Florida sky is doing. After dark the neon along the Deco frontages switches on and the pavement fills with people heading for Ocean Drive, one block east.
Miami runs on Eastern time. This 24/7 live cam is at its best in the hour before sunset, when the low light hits the pastel buildings, and again from about 10 pm when the neon takes over. Winter is high season, dry, warm and busy, while a summer afternoon can bring a tropical downpour that clears the street in minutes.
