South Miami Beach: One resident claims it has become a “cesspool”, “utter lawlessness”

miaminewtimes.com reported just weeks after the Miami Beach City Commission approved a ban on late-night alcohol sales and consumption on Ocean Drive despite objections by many restaurant and hotel owners, city officials say the change could be just the beginning of reforms on the iconic boulevard.

And one South Beach hotel owner says that change is long overdue. Mitch Novick, a long-time South Beach resident and the owner of the Sherbrooke Hotel (901 Collins Ave.), says Miami’s famed Art Deco streets have become a “cesspool” of “utter lawlessness.” To prove it, he’s been circulating videos shot from his hotel of twerking, fighting and general bad behavior in the streets. Read Article