{"id":20056,"date":"2025-10-25T09:04:30","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T09:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/20056\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T09:04:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T09:04:30","slug":"a-list-residents-of-miamis-ritziest-road-are-branded-rich-morons-over-plans-to-close-it-off-with-security-gates-to-keep-the-public-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/20056\/","title":{"rendered":"A-List residents of Miami’s ritziest road are branded ‘rich morons’ over plans to close it off with security gates to keep the public out"},"content":{"rendered":"

Miami’s wealthiest residents were deemed ‘rich morons’ over plans to close off their road to the public.<\/p>\n

North Bay Road in Miami Beach is among the wealthiest streets in the US, with stunning properties going for eight-figure sums.<\/p>\n

The four-mile corridor has been home to A-listers like David and Victoria Beckham<\/a>, Jennifer Lopez<\/a>, Shakira<\/a> or Cindy Crawford<\/a> and her husband Rande Gerber<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now, the affluent residents want to install security gates that would effectively keep everyone else out of their street.<\/p>\n

They claim that the measure is necessary to ward off a string of car thefts and crime<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Adam Bergman, who bought a North Bay Road home in January, told the Wall Street Journal<\/a>: ‘I was expecting to be in a safe environment where my kids would be able to have fun and enjoy the street, but it’s impossible.<\/p>\n

‘There’s no sense of community.’<\/p>\n

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North Bay Road in Miami Beach is one of the most affluent communities in the US<\/p>\n

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The affluent residents want to install security gates to ward off car thefts<\/p>\n

Bergman said masked robbers had unsuccessfully tried to steal his Mercedes in his driveway earlier this year.<\/p>\n

However, critics of the move panned the robberies that had supposedly plagued North Bay Road.<\/p>\n

In some thefts, the A-listers had left the car keys inside the cars.<\/p>\n

Other times, the opulent vehicles were still running when they were stolen.<\/p>\n

The street’s residents include the Beckhams, who purchased North Bay Road’s most expensive mansion for about $72million.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

Other homeowners include Joshua Kushner and Karlie Kloss, who bought a 15,000-square-foot mansion on the corridor for a reported<\/a> $15m in 2020.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Adam Kravitz, who lives on neighboring Alton Road and is its homeowners association president, said: ‘This is a huge waste of time and effort to placate the egos of a few wealthy residents.’<\/p>\n

\"North <\/p>\n

North Bay Road has been home to the likes of David and Victoria Beckham<\/p>\n

\"Cindy <\/p>\n

Cindy Crawford and her husband Rande Gerber also own a home on the corridor<\/p>\n

He branded the A-listers ‘rich morons’ whose carjackings were self-inflicted.<\/p>\n

Kravitz said: ‘Are you saying that on Alton Road we don’t have car thefts? Are you saying that on Alton Road we don’t have break-ins?’<\/p>\n

The affluent homeowners believe they should not have to constantly worry about crime because of where they live and how much they pay to be there.<\/p>\n

Some have reportedly hired 24\/7 armed security to watch their property.<\/p>\n

There were eight or nine car thefts on North Bay Road in each of the past four years, as opposed to 14 in 2020, according to the Wall Street Journal.<\/p>\n

That has resulted in the corridor’s A-listers to create a group chat where they talk about ‘suspicious’ people in their ritzy part of Miami.<\/p>\n

The group includes the likes of Crawford, the Wall Street Journal reported.<\/p>\n

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Homes on North Bay Road regularly go for eight-figure amounts<\/p>\n

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The plan would install security gates separating the community from Miami’s public street grid<\/p>\n

The full plan proposed by North Bay Road residents would prop up security gates separating the community from Miami’s public street grid.<\/p>\n

The gates would also curtail rising traffic in the area, which residents claim is due to mobile apps leading drivers down their road.<\/p>\n

Bergman said: ‘This has nothing to do with elitism. This is about protecting our community, our children and making it safe to be on the street.’<\/p>\n

However, the road is not actually a private community despite the astounding levels of prestige accumulated by its residents.<\/p>\n

The move is also complicated due to North Bay Road’s particular design, as waterways split the corridor in three.<\/p>\n

Other affluent communities in Miami, such as Gables Estates or La Gorce Island, are gated off but not trisected by water.<\/p>\n

Until now, only the middle part has started the process to install the security gates, petitioning Miami Beach commissioners to create a special taxation district that would then potentially vote in support of the move.<\/p>\n

A traffic and feasibility study would also need to take place.<\/p>\n

If approved by Miami Beach authorities, the full installation would take two to three years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miami’s wealthiest residents were deemed ‘rich morons’ over plans to close off their road to the public. North…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20057,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[16223,1761,16224,123,125,124,115,16221,16222,16225],"class_list":["post-20056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-cindy-crawford","tag-dailymail","tag-jennifer-lopez","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-news","tag-rande-gerber","tag-shakira","tag-victoria-beckham"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}