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What It’s Like to Visit Miami Right Now

Despite its rocky ride with Covid-19, the city is seeing an unprecedented number of splashy international openings and high-octane nightlife spots—giving Miami a whole new edge.

Photographer: Sylvain Sonnet/The Image Bank RF

Nathan Crooks is a breaking news reporter based in Bloomberg’s Miami bureau.

If most cities became eerily quiet during the height of the pandemic, Miami—a global mecca because of its sun-drenched beach days and booze-soaked party nights—was very much the opposite. People flocked here from all over. At one point, Miami International Airport overtook both JFK and LAX to become the busiest international airport in the country.