Map of Hollywood city, Florida

Hollywood is a city in southern Broward County, Florida, United States, located between Fort Lauderdale and Miami. As of 2020 census, Hollywood had a population of 153,061, and an estimated population of 153,131 in 2021. Founded in 1925, the city grew rapidly in the 1950s and 1960s, and is now the 12th-largest city in Florida. Hollywood is a principal city of the Miami metropolitan area, which was home to 6,138,333 people in the 2020 census, and an estimated 6,091,747 in 2021. The average temperature is between 68 and 83 °F (20 and 28 °C).

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History

In 1920, Joseph Young arrived in South Florida to create his own “Dream City in Florida”. His vision included the beaches of the Atlantic Ocean stretching westward with man-made lakes, infrastructure, roads, and the Intracoastal Waterway. He wanted to include large parks, schools, churches, and golf courses; these were all industries and activities that were very important to Young’s life. After Young spent millions of dollars on the construction of the city, he was elected as the first mayor in 1925. This new town quickly became home to northerners known as “snowbirds”, who fled the north during the winter and then escaped the south during the summer to avoid the harsh weather. By 1960, Hollywood had more than 2,400 hotel units and 12,170 single-family homes. Young bought up thousands of acres of land around 1920, and named his new town “Hollywood by the Sea” to distinguish it from his other real-estate venture, “Hollywood in the Hills”, in New York.

The Florida guide, published by the Federal Writers’ Project, describes the early development of Hollywood, an early example of a planned community that proliferated in Florida during the real-estate boom of the 1920s:

Prospective purchasers of land were enticed by free hotel accommodation and entertainment, and “were driven about the city-to-be on trails blazed through palmetto thickets; so desolate and forlorn were some stretches that many women became hysterical, it is said, and a few fainted. Young had a vision of having lakes, golf courses, a luxury beach hotel (Hollywood Beach Hotel, now Hollywood Beach Resort), country clubs, and a main street, Hollywood Boulevard. After the 1926 Miami hurricane, Hollywood was severely damaged; local newspapers reported that Hollywood was second only to Miami in losses from the storm. Following Young’s death in 1934, the city encountered other destructive hurricanes, and the stock market crashed with personal financial misfortunes.

Hurricane Irma hit Florida in 2017, wreaking widespread damage. Due to the spontaneity of the hurricane, nearly 700 elderly nursing-home residents died. In an investigation following the hurricane, some of the deaths were found to be not actually a result of the hurricane, but the poor conditions to which they were exposed in the aftermath. Four nursing-home staff charged with negligence and counts of manslaughter. Following the damage inflicted by Hurricane Irma in 2017, an initiative called Rebuild Florida was created by the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity to provide aid to citizens affected by the natural disaster. The initial focus of Rebuild Florida was its Housing Repair Program, which offered assistance in rebuilding families’ homes that were impacted by Hurricane Irma. The program gave priority to low-income vulnerable residents, such as the disabled, the elderly, and those families with children under five. The success of this program has various results across the city, with hundreds of citizens claiming they were left without help.

Timeline

• 1921 – Hollywood by the Sea platted on land of Joseph Wesley Young
• 1923
  • Hollywood Hotel opens. Later renamed the Park View Hotel when the Hollywood Beach Hotel opens.
• 1925
  • Hollywood incorporated
  • Hollywood Police Department established
  • Hollywood Boulevard Bridge built (approximate date)
  • Joseph Wesley Young becomes mayor; C.H. Windham becomes city manager
  • Joseph Wesley Young House built
• 1926
  • Hollywood Beach Hotel in business
  • September 18: 1926 Miami hurricane demolished city
• 1928 – Port Everglades opened near Hollywood
• 1930
  • Hollywood Hills Inn built
  • Population: 2,689.
• 1932 – Riverside Military Academy Hollywood campus established
• 1935 – Fiesta Tropicale began
• 1937 – Florida Theatre built
• 1947 – Hurricanes occur
• 1948 – Broward County International Airport opened
• 1950 – Population: 14,351
• 1952 – Joseph Watson became city manager (until c. 1970)
• 1953 – Hollywood Memorial Hospital opened
• 1957
  • Seminole Tribe of Florida gained official recognition by the federal government, with tribal headquarters located in Hollywood.
  • McArthur High School opened
• 1958 – Diplomat Hotel in business
• 1959 – Seminole Tribe’s Okalee Indian Village in business.
• 1960 – Population: 35,237
• 1962 – Arrow Drive-In cinema in business
• 1964 – Home Federal Tower hi-rise built.
• 1967 – Hollywood West Elks Lodge founded
• 1970 – Population: 106,873
• 1971
  • Pageant of the Unconquered Seminoles held in Hollywood
  • Topeekeegee Yugnee Park opened
• 1972 – Broward County Historical Commission established
• 1974 – Broward County Library System established.
• 1975 – Art and Culture Center of Hollywood opened
• 1981
  • July 27: Murder of Adam Walsh
  • “U.S. Supreme Court affirms Tribe’s right to high-stakes bingo at Hollywood in Seminole Tribe of Florida vs. Butterworth“
• 1982 – West Lake Park opened
• 1983 – Seminole Tribune newspaper begins publication.
• 1996
  • Kolb Nature Center opened in West Lake Park
  • City website online (approximate date)
• 1997 – New Times Broward-Palm Beach newspaper began publication
• 2004 – Seminole Tribe of Florida’s Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood in business
• 2010 – Population: 140,768
• 2013 – Frederica Wilson became U.S. representative for Florida’s 24th congressional district
• 2016 – Josh Levy became mayor
• 2018 – The first hotel in almost 50 years, Circ By Sonder, opens in Downtown Hollywood.
• 2019 – Hard Rock Live guitar shaped hotel opened, with pool and manmade lake

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Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 30.8 square miles (80 km), of which 3.46 square miles (9 km) are covered by water (11.23%).

Hollywood is in southeastern Broward County, and includes about 5 to 6 miles (8.0 to 9.7 km) of Atlantic Ocean beach, interrupted briefly by a portion deeded to Dania Beach. It is bounded by these municipalities:

Neighborhoods

These neighborhoods and communities are officially recognized by the City of Hollywood:

• 441 Corridor
• Alandco
• Arapahoe Farms
• Beverly Hills
• Beverly Park
• Boulevard Heights
• Camino Sheridan
• Carriage/Carriage Hills
• Central Business District
• Condo presidents
• Downtown Hollywood
• Driftwood/Driftwood Acres
• East Lake
• Emerald Hills
• Emerald Oaks
• Emerald Point
• Estates of Fort Lauderdale
• Highland Gardens
• Hillcrest
• Hollywood Beach
• Hollywood Gardens
• Hollywood Hills
• Hollywood Lakes
• Hollywood North Beach
• Hollywood South Central Beach
• L’Etoile at Emerald Point
• Lake Eden
• Lakes of Emerald Hills
• Lawnacres
• Liberia
• Mapleridge
• Martin Luther King Jr. Community
• North Central
• Oak Point
• Oakridge
• Oakwood Hills
• Park East
• Park Side
• Playland/Playland Village
• Playland Estates
• Quadomain
• Royal Poinciana
• Sheridan Oaks
• Stirling Commercial
• The Homes at East Lake
• The Townhouses of Emerald Hills
• The Wood of Emerald Hills
• T.Y. (Topeekeegee Yugnee) Park
• Washington Park
• West Hollywood

Climate

Hollywood has a tropical rainforest climate (Köppen climate classification Af), with long, hot, humid, and rainy summers and short, warm, and dry winters.

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