Live in Bright Park
The east end of Hialeah's old north side, from East 4th Avenue to the city line: 7,767 residents in 2020, in houses most of them built in the 1940s and 1950s, with 72% of them in FEMA's shallow-flooding zone AH and a 75-acre strip of light industry and warehouses along the eastern edge.
James H. Bright, the Missouri cattleman who developed Hialeah with Glenn Curtiss from 1921, gave his name to the four-acre City park on E 35th Street, and this guide takes its name from the park. It is the City master plan's Racetrack and Transfer Station District 2, 595 acres from East 4th Avenue to the city line between E 33rd and E 49th Streets, where the 2020 census counted 7,767 residents in 2,390 homes, most of them on plats the County still files as Hialeah, Ingleside Park and Linden Gardens. It was built earlier than the ground to its west: 880 of the 1,913 residential parcels the City's zoning layer dates went up in the 1940s, and the median year is 1950. FEMA maps 72% of the residents into zone AH, its designation for shallow ponding, and the parcels along the city line, 75 acres of them, are designated industrial.
The oldest houses on the old north side, low ground, and industry on the city line
Racetrack and Transfer Station District 2 of the City of Hialeah's Hialeah 2050 Master Plan (District Master Plan Recommendations, Plusurbia for the City, May 2025), which draws and numbers the district but does not name it; the plan publishes no map layer, so the district was redrawn here on the City's street centerlines and clipped to the City Boundary layer: 595 acres. East 4th Avenue is the west line, E 49th Street the north line and E 33rd Street the south line; the east line is the city limit just beyond East 11th Avenue, with NW 37th Avenue and unincorporated Miami-Dade on the other side. East 8th Avenue runs up the middle. Bright Park is this site's name, after the City park near the south line; the plats the County files as Hialeah (4,532 residents), Ingleside Park (1,764) and Linden Gardens (1,298) hold most of the people, and no line here says where residents think any name ends. Milander Park is across East 4th Avenue, the Hialeah Park guide across E 33rd Street and Amelia across E 49th Street. All of it is in the City of Hialeah, Miami-Dade County, Miami-Dade County Public Schools and ZIP code 33013.
James H. Bright, the Missouri cattleman who developed Hialeah with Glenn Curtiss, is remembered here by a four-acre City park on E 35th Street, and this guide takes its name from the park. Hialeah was platted in 1921 and incorporated in 1925, and this end of the old north side filled in early: of the 1,913 residential parcels the City's zoning layer dates, 880 were built in the 1940s and 700 in the 1950s, and the median year is 1950. Most residents live on plats the County still files under the name Hialeah; Ingleside Park and Linden Gardens are the others of any size.
The line is the City's; the name is this site's. Hialeah's 2050 Master Plan numbers its districts without naming them, and this is Racetrack and Transfer Station District 2: 595 acres from East 4th Avenue to the city limit just past East 11th Avenue, between E 33rd and E 49th Streets, with unincorporated Miami-Dade across NW 37th Avenue. The 2020 census counted 7,767 residents in 2,390 homes, all in ZIP code 33013, and 1,808 of the 2,270 parcels are single-family houses.
It is a working edge as well as a neighborhood. On the City's zoning layer 75 acres, 17.5% of the parcel acres, carry an industrial designation, nearly all on the strip between East 10th Avenue and the city line, where 233 parcels are zoned M-1, 115 of them light manufacturing and 65 warehouses. That is acres of parcels by designation, not jobs, but a house near the eastern edge can sit a block from a workshop.
Most of it is on the flood map. On the City's flood layer, which matched FEMA's map where it was checked, 5,594 residents, 72%, live in zone AH, FEMA's designation for shallow ponding. The reference point is AH with a base flood elevation of 9 feet, on maps effective since 2009 and measured on the older NGVD29 datum, so do not set it beside a figure from another city. The City says its groundwater lies just below the surface and names Irene in 1999 and the No-Name Storm of 2000 as floods that left parts of Hialeah under water for extended periods; no record read here says which streets flooded. No resident is in a storm-surge evacuation zone. A homeowners policy does not cover flood, a new flood policy takes 30 days to start, and the City's CRS class 7 takes 15% off NFIP premiums inside the zone. Work worth half a building's market value within five years triggers the City's 50% rule: the house must then meet new-construction standards, its floor height included.
The price figure is the ZIP's. Zillow's typical value for 33013 was $566,422 in August 2026, up 2.1% on the year, but the ZIP held 31,068 people in 2020. Every address here pays 18.6468 mills for 2025, with no County fire or library levy, so a homesteaded buyer at the ZIP figure owes about $9,792 a year on the base exemptions and a landlord about $10,562. Save Our Homes caps a homestead's assessed value at 3% a year and ends with the sale, so the seller's bill understates yours. Garbage is $36.50 a month on the City's utility account; whether the tax bill carries a City non-ad valorem line was not checked. The arithmetic is on the Hialeah page.
Route 42 stops at East 8th Avenue and E 41st Street about every 45 minutes on weekdays and not at all at weekends, and the City's Marlin circulator uses the same corner. The Metrorail Transfer Station, about 1.8 km south, has Metrorail every 15 minutes and Tri-Rail about hourly.
- Look up the lot's own flood zone on FEMA's map and ask for an elevation certificate
- Walk toward East 10th Avenue and see what the industrial parcels hold
- Search the City's permits for every addition and converted garage
- Plan around Route 42, which runs no buses at weekends
How Bright Park got here
- 1921Glenn Curtiss and James H. Bright draw up Hialeah's first plat and name the town, on the prairie north-west of Miami.
- 1925The City of Hialeah incorporates on 10 September.
- 1940sMost of the neighborhood goes up: 880 of the 1,913 dated residential parcels on the City's zoning layer are built between 1940 and 1949.
- 1950sAnother 700 follow, filling in the blocks toward the city line.
- 2009FEMA's Miami-Dade flood maps take effect on 11 September, putting 62% of the land in zone AH, the designation for shallow ponding.
- 2020The census counts 7,767 residents and 2,390 housing units inside the line.
- 2025The Hialeah 2050 Master Plan's District Master Plan Recommendations, dated May, draw this ground as Racetrack and Transfer Station District 2.
- 2026The School Board redraws Henry H. Filer Middle's attendance boundary for 2026-27, effective 1 July; 1,232 of the residents were in its zone in 2020. On 2 October the City lists Bright Pool as temporarily closed.
Four acres beside the school: courts, a softball field and a pool that is closed for now
James H. Bright Park, 750 E 35th Street, has a lighted tennis court, two lighted basketball courts, a lighted youth softball field, a playground, a recreation building and a community pool, and Flamingo Elementary next door uses it for physical education and recess. It is open 2 to 9 p.m. on weekdays and 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Saturday; the pool is seasonal and was temporarily closed on 2 October 2026. Henry Milander Park, about 2 km west, has the stadium and the year-round pool.
What the map does not show: the City lists no Sunday hours for the park. Amelia Earhart Park is a County park, not a City one.
Elsewhere in Hialeah, not Bright Park
23 places, with real drive times
Road-adjusted distance and drive time from the centre of the community to each destination, nearest first. Filter by category.
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Method: straight lines from the population-weighted center of the guide's 2020 census blocks, near East 8th Avenue and E 41st Street, times a road factor of 1.32, with a tiered speed model for the drive: honest ranges, not routed times. Bus rows are measured to the nearest stop.
Every gym within reach
For a pool, the Milander Aquatic Center, about 2 km west, was the only City pool open on 2 October 2026, $3 a day or $25 a month for residents; Bright Pool is seasonal and closed, and Bucky Dent Water Park is closed until further notice.
- James H. Bright Park: about 1 km, weekday afternoons and Saturday
- Milander Aquatic Center: about 2 km, from 5:30 a.m. on Monday and Wednesday
- Henry Milander Park: courts and recreation building, every day
| Facility | What it is | Drive |
|---|---|---|
| James H. Bright Park recreation building open | The City's park at 750 E 35th Street, inside the line: a recreation building, a lighted tennis court, two lighted basketball courts and a youth softball field, open 2 to 9 p.m. on weekdays and 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Saturday. | 3–4 min |
| Milander Aquatic Center open | The City's pool at 4820 Palm Avenue, west across East 4th Avenue, and the only City pool open on 2 October 2026: 5:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Monday and Wednesday, 7:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Saturday. $3 a day for residents ($2 seniors) or $25 a month ($15). | 5–7 min |
| Henry Milander Park recreation building open | The recreation building, lighted basketball courts and field at 4700 Palm Avenue, open 2 to 9 p.m. on weekdays and 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. at weekends. | 5–8 min |
| Bright Pool closed | The park's seasonal community pool at 760 E 35th Street, which its page said on 2 October 2026 was temporarily closed; the City holds its swim lessons at the Milander Aquatic Center. | 3–4 min |
| Bucky Dent Water Park closed | 2240 W 60th Street: a Milander membership includes lap swimming here, but the City says it is temporarily closed until further notice. | 9–14 min |
The free option is Bright Park's lighted tennis and basketball courts.
Two elementary zones, two middle schools, one high school
Miami-Dade County Public Schools assigns by address. The point is zoned for North Hialeah Elementary, inside the line, graded B for 2026; Hialeah Middle, B; and Hialeah Senior High, B, the zoned high school for every resident. 2,594 residents in the south are zoned for Flamingo Elementary, also inside the line, and 1,232 for Henry H. Filer Middle.
| School | Board | Note |
|---|---|---|
| North Hialeah Elementary School | Miami-Dade County Public Schools | 4251 E 5th Avenue, prekindergarten to grade 5, inside the line: the County's attendance layer puts the reference point in its zone, with 5,173 of the 2020 residents. The other 2,594, in the south of the guide, are zoned for Flamingo Elementary, 701 E 33rd Street, also inside the line (B for 2026, 2025 and 2024). North Hialeah was graded B for 2026, A for 2025 and B for 2024. |
| Hialeah Middle School | Miami-Dade County Public Schools | 6027 E 7th Avenue, grades 6 to 8, north of the guide: the zoned middle school at the reference point and for 6,535 residents, graded B for 2026, 2025 and 2024. The other 1,232 were zoned in 2020 for Henry H. Filer Middle (C for 2026, B for 2025 and 2024), whose boundary the School Board redrew for 2026-27, effective 1 July 2026; the County's layer was edited afterwards, on 21 September, but nothing read says it carries the change, so check the address with the district. |
| Hialeah Senior High School | Miami-Dade County Public Schools | 251 E 47th Street, grades 9 to 12, just west of the line: the zoned high school for every resident in 2020. Graded B for 2026, 2025 and 2024. Magnet applications for 2027-28 run from 1 October 2026 to 15 January 2027, up to five schools; controlled open enrollment is a lottery for seats at schools with room, without a bus. |
Check the address with the district. Filer Middle's boundary changed for 2026-27, and the County layer these zones come from may predate it. Magnet applications for 2027-28 are open from 1 October 2026 to 15 January 2027.
Month by month, what living here looks like
Not a highlights reel: the actual annual rhythm, including the dates residents have to remember.
- Highs near 24.6 °C and lows near 16.1 °C at Miami International Airport, the nearest full-record station, on NOAA's 1991 to 2020 normals
- About 46 mm of rain, the driest month
- Magnet applications for 2027-28 close on 15 January 2027
- Highs near 25.7 °C and lows near 17.3 °C, and about 55 mm of rain in the heart of the dry season
- 1 March: the deadline to file for the homestead exemption and for portability with the Miami-Dade County Property Appraiser
- Highs near 27.0 °C, about 62 mm of rain; magnet auditions and tests finish before 1 March
- Highs near 28.7 °C and lows near 21.0 °C, about 85 mm of rain
- The wet season starts: about 161 mm, and May to October brings 77% of the year's 1,712 mm
- Highs near 30.4 °C
- The Atlantic hurricane season runs from 1 June to 30 November
- The wettest month on the normal, about 267 mm, mostly in afternoon storms; the City says runoff has limited drainage options in heavy rain, and 72% of residents here are in zone AH
- About 15 days reach 32 °C (90 °F)
- The City's Independence Day celebration is at Milander Park, across East 4th Avenue, on 4 July; the 2027 program is not posted
- Highs near 32.6 °C, about 24 days reaching 32 °C
- The Property Appraiser mails the TRIM notice of proposed taxes, usually in mid-August; a petition to the Value Adjustment Board is due within 25 days of the mailing
- About 243 mm of rain, and highs near 32.6 °C
- The Atlantic season peaks around 10 September
- About 260 mm of rain, nearly as much as June
- Magnet applications for 2027-28 open on 1 October 2026
- Hialeah Trunk-or-Treat at Milander Park on Saturday 31 October 2026, from 6 p.m.
- Still wet: about 194 mm of rain
- The hurricane season ends on 30 November
- Highs near 27.4 °C, about 90 mm of rain, and the dry season begins
- Santa's Snow Blast brings 50 tons of snow to Milander Park on Saturday 5 December 2026
- Highs near 25.7 °C and lows near 17.9 °C, about 62 mm of rain
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