The oldest continuously inhabited neighborhood in Miami, and the one where the ground is highest. Shade, sailing, and houses that were built to be lived in rather than photographed.
The Grove reads as three places at once. The village core is walkable and loud on weekends — cafés, the sailing club, the Saturday farmers market. South of Ingraham Highway the streets narrow under banyans and the lots get wide; this is where the 1920s houses and the canal frontage are. North of Grand Avenue, the West Grove holds the neighborhood's Bahamian history and its most contested redevelopment.
Practically: the limestone ridge puts much of the Grove eight to fourteen feet above sea level, which is why insurance quotes here routinely land under comparable waterfront elsewhere in the county. Tree ordinances are strict and enforced — plan on permits for anything touching a canopy tree.