Wynwood
Stand at the corner of NW 25th Street and NW 2nd Avenue and look up. Eighty thousand square feet of murals — painted by artists from more than twenty countries — cover what were once blank warehouse walls, the kind of walls that used to face outward at nothing in particular. That is the thing about Wynwood: it converted industrial indifference into one of the largest outdoor collections of public art in the world.
The neighborhood runs roughly from NW 20th to NW 36th Street, a grid of low-slung warehouses and converted storefronts where the monthly second-Saturday art walks first drew locals out of their cars and into the streets.
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People who keep coming back tend to arrive on a weekday morning, before the tour groups. They walk NW 2nd Avenue slowly, double back through the Wynwood Garden to check what's new at the Goldman Global Arts Gallery, and save the Museum of Graffiti — the first institution dedicated entirely to the form — for when the afternoon light flattens outside.
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In 1917, Hugh Anderson and Josiah Chaille bought land here for farming. The name came from a contest — a woman named S.H. Ward submitted 'Wyndwood,' and the neighborhood kept it, minus the extra D. By the 1920s it had pivoted to garment manufacturing, and by 1980 it ranked as the third-largest garment district in the United States. After World War II, Puerto Rican families settled in among the bakeries and warehouses, giving the blocks a working-class residential texture that lasted for decades.
The turn came in 2003, when Mark Coetzee, Nina Arias, and Nick Cindric founded the Wynwood Art District Association. Then, in late 2009, real-estate developer Tony Goldman launched the Wynwood Walls as a small experiment timed to Art Basel — outdoor murals on warehouse exteriors that had simply never been looked at before. Goldman added the Wynwood Doors in 2010. The Rubell Family Collection had already been operating in one of the old warehouses since 1993, quietly proving that contemporary art and industrial architecture had something to say to each other.
Who and what shaped it
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When to go
November through April is the easier time to be outdoors here — temperatures sit between the mid-60s and upper 70s Fahrenheit, humidity drops, and the sky tends to stay clear. May through October brings reliable afternoon thunderstorms; mornings are usually fine, but carry something waterproof if you plan to spend the whole day outside.
Right now
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