Milander Park and Bright Park on the old north side, and Hialeah Park itself
The old north side east of W 4th Avenue between 21st and 49th Streets: Milander Park, Bright Park, and Hialeah Park with the track and the Transfer Station.
Photograph: Palm Avenue near Hialeah Park, about 1.2 km south of the reference point, not a photograph of Milander Park · Ivan Curra · CC BY-SA 3.0 · sourceThis area is the plan's Racetrack and Transfer Station, named for Hialeah Park's track and the station where Tri-Rail meets Metrorail: the old north side east of W 4th Avenue between W and E 21st Street and W and E 49th Street, out to the city line with unincorporated West Little River and Gladeview, 28,691 residents and 9,638 housing units on 2,240 acres in 2020, the fewest of the five. Every guide here is one or more of the plan's numbered districts, which the plan draws and does not name, so the name on each is the one this site gives it. Milander Park, the plan's District 1, 9,355 residents, is named for the City park at its middle, where the Milander Center is, and holds Carole Anne Park. Bright Park, District 2, 7,767 residents, is named for its park. Hialeah Park, Districts 3 and 4, 11,569 residents on 982 acres, takes the racetrack's name and holds the track, its casino, Hialeah Hospital and the Transfer Station. The plat named Hialeah Park is not here: its 979 residents are in Essex Village, south of 21st Street. 3 guides are listed below.
Palm Avenue, East 4th Avenue and 33rd Street run through this area, and it sits low. On the City's flood layer 72% of Bright Park's residents live in a FEMA special flood hazard area, 59% of Hialeah Park's and 55% of Milander Park's. Bright Park and Hialeah Park are each between 17% and 19% industrial by parcel acres; Milander Park has none. The City's transit station zoning around the Transfer Station takes in 1,979 Hialeah Park residents, and the City's zoning layer records 22 parcels built in Hialeah Park since 2020, more than any guide but Hialeah Heights. A Florida homeowners policy covers wind and not rising water, so FEMA's flood map for the exact address, the elevation certificate, the seller's disclosure of past flooding and a quote for a separate flood policy belong in any offer here.
3 communities, guide by guide
Bright Park
East 4th Avenue to the city line between E 33rd and E 49th Streets, 595 acres and about 7,800 residents in 2020, mostly in 1940s houses around Bright Park and its pool, with Flamingo and North Hialeah elementaries and 75 acres of industrial land.
- 7,767
- Residents of the 109 census blocks inside Racetrack and Transfer Station District 2 of the City's master plan, 595 acres, in 2,390 housing units; the City's zoning layer records 6 parcels built since 2020, U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 census
- 72%
- Share of residents in FEMA's special flood hazard area, 5,594 people, all in zone AH, shallow ponding, on 62% of the land; zone AH with a base flood elevation of 9 feet (NGVD29) at the reference point, on maps effective 11 September 2009, City of Hialeah and FEMA, read 2026
Hialeah Park
The racetrack and the streets around it, W 4th Avenue to the city line between 21st and 33rd Streets, 982 acres and about 11,600 residents in 2020: Hialeah Park's track and casino, Hialeah Hospital and the Tri-Rail and Metrorail Transfer Station.
- 11,569
- Residents of the 144 census blocks inside Racetrack and Transfer Station Districts 3 and 4, in 4,171 housing units on 982 acres, U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 census; the master plan's lines, Plusurbia for the City of Hialeah, 2025
- 59%
- Share of residents in FEMA's special flood hazard area, all 6,868 of them in zone AH (shallow ponding), on the City's Flood Zones layer; zone X at the reference point on FEMA's map, panel 12086C0282L, effective 11 September 2009
Milander Park
The old north side between W 4th and East 4th Avenues from 33rd to 49th Street, 663 acres and about 9,400 residents in 2020, around Milander Park and its center, Hialeah Senior High and the John F. Kennedy Library, the City's main library.
- 9,355
- Residents of the 126 census blocks inside Racetrack and Transfer Station District 1 of the City's master plan, 663 acres, in 3,077 housing units; the City's zoning layer records 8 parcels built since 2020, U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 census
- 1952
- Median year built of the 2,171 residential parcels with a year on the City's zoning layer; 1,752 of them, 81%, date from the 1950s, and 1,993 of the 2,315 parcels are single-family houses, City of Hialeah, read 2026
Photographs: The Metrorail and Tri-Rail transfer station by Phillip Pessar from Miami, USA, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons · The clubhouse entrance by Phillip Pessar, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.