WGM Weekly: NYC #1 for Basketball and #1 for Hurricane Risk & Palm Tree Crew Residences
+ Pura Vida to Wynwood, LPM Is Closed for a Minute, Mandarin Oriental Brickell Key.
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WHAT’S GOOD MIAMI: 5.26.26
On My Mind: GO NEW YORK GO NEW YORK GO
The last time you were in the finals I was sitting at The Grill in the Hamptons with my father watching OJ get chased on the freeway.
Beach Business
New York Is Now Americas #1 Hurricane Risk
The New York metro has been named the most at-risk for hurricanes.
Pura Vida Expands Again: HQ Heading To Wynwood
The most-Miami-Beach restaurant is growing up, and staying close to home.
Palm Tree Crew Is Building A 483 Unit Air BnB Building In Downtown
Only in Miami. 37 stories. 483 fully furnished units. Festival friendly?
Hospitality Local Insider
LPM: Our Favorite Restaurant Just Closed To Get Better
LPM Miami is shutting the doors. June reopening. “Slipping into something new.”
Real Estate
Luxe Developments We Love: Mandarin Oriental Residences Brickell key
One Island Drive. Two towers. The southern tip of Brickell Key. The biggest branded residential bet in Miami history.
ON MY MIND: GO NEW YORK GO NEW YORK GO
Look, I have to admit it. I enjoyed watching Michael Jordan beat your asses back in the day. I really enjoyed when Jimmy whooped your butt. And I might have even taken some quiet pleasure in Haliburton’s miracle last year.
But with the Heat out of it and the way you’re playing right now? You can’t help but get infected by Knicks-mania. A 4-0 sweep of the Cavs. A 130-93 closeout. Brunson with the Larry Bird Trophy. First Finals since 1999. That’s not luck, that’s a team that figured it out.
The last time you were in the finals I was sitting at The Grill in the Hamptons with my father watching OJ get chased on the freeway. Great memory, great chili.
With OKC and Wemby going head-to-head in the West, it’s going to be very interesting to see who you draw. A couple of years ago, this whole thing would have been unimaginable. Dolan was a zero. The Knicks were a punchline. The Garden was where dreams went to die. But persistence pays. The front office got it right, Brunson became Brunson, and here we are.
The Mr. Miami take: Whatever happens in the finals, this is a victory for the city that never sleeps, and that’s a city we have a lot of love for down here. Knicks in the Finals. we will all be watching. Let’s f-ing go.
BEACH BUSINESS
NEW YORK IS NOW AMERICA’S #1 HURRICANE RISK. SAY IT LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK.
Every June, the same script. A cousin in Manhattan, a friend in Brooklyn, a client in the Hamptons, somebody, somewhere, sends the eye-roll: “How do you LIVE down there with the hurricanes?” This year, hand them Cotality’s 2026 Hurricane Risk Report and walk away.
The headline: the New York metro has the largest concentration of homes exposed to hurricane risk in the country, more than 3.27 million, representing nearly $1.93 trillion in reconstruction value. Houston is second. Miami is third. New York also leads the U.S. in storm surge exposure, 631,000+ homes, $329 billion on the line.
Here’s the part nobody up there wants to hear. It’s been 14 years since Sandy and five since Ida, and the New York metro lags behind its southern counterparts on coastal preparedness and building practices. Translation: when it comes, it’s worse. Down here, we build for it, codes written in the language of Andrew, shutters in the closet by May, a guy on speed-dial. Up there? Submerged Audis on the Jackie Robinson Parkway, exactly what happened days after the Cotality report dropped, when flash floods shut down major highways across Queens.
Mr. Miami Take: Miami’s “risk” is the most overpriced narrative in American real estate. We’re not denying the risk, we’re saying we built a city that understands it. The next person who asks how you live down here? Ask them how they sleep up there.
