Lauderhill, Florida
| Lauderhill, Florida | |||
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| City of Lauderhill | |||
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| Nickname(s): Jamaica Hill | |||
| Motto: "All-America City!" | |||
 Location of Lauderhill in Broward County, Florida |
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| Coordinates: 26°9′56″N 80°13′57″W / 26.16556°N 80.23250°WCoordinates: 26°9′56″N 80°13′57″W / 26.16556°N 80.23250°W | |||
| Country |
 United States
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 Florida
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| County |
 Broward
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| Incorporated | June 20, 1959 | ||
| Government | |||
| • Type | Commission-Manager | ||
| • Mayor | Richard J. Kaplan (D) | ||
| • Vice Mayor | Hayward J. Benson, Jr. | ||
| • Commissioners | M. Margaret Bates, Howard Berger, and Ken Thurston | ||
| • City Manager | Charles Faranda | ||
| • City Clerk | Andrea M. Anderson | ||
| Area | |||
| • City | 8.6 sq mi (22.2 km2) | ||
| • Land | 8.5 sq mi (22.1 km2) | ||
| • Water | 0.04 sq mi (0.1 km2) | ||
| Elevation | 9 ft (3 m) | ||
| Population (2010) | |||
| • City | 66,887 | ||
| • Density | 7,844/sq mi (3,028.5/km2) | ||
| • Metro | 5,564,635 | ||
| Time zone | Eastern (EST) (UTC-5) | ||
| • Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC-4) | ||
| ZIP code(s) | 33311, 33313, 33319, 33351 | ||
| Area code(s) | 954, 754 | ||
| FIPS code | 12-39550 | ||
| GNIS feature ID | 0285368 | ||
| Website | www |
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Lauderhill, officially the City of Lauderhill, is a city in Broward County, Florida, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the city's population was 66,887. It is a principal city of the Miami metropolitan area, which was home to an estimated 6,012,331 people at the 2015 census. Its sister city is Chaguanas, Trinidad and Tobago.
The development that eventually came to be known as Lauderhill was originally to be named "Sunnydale", but William Safire, a friend of the developer, Herbert Sadkin, convinced him to change his mind. Safire felt that "Sunnydale" sounded like a neighborhood in Brooklyn. Sadkin said there were no hills in the new town, to which Safire replied, "There are probably no dales in Lauderdale, either!" From that discussion, the name "Lauderhill" was coined. The development eventually grew to become Lauderhill, the city.
Lauderhill was one of two developments (the other in New York) that began largely as off-the-shelf architectural designs which had been available to the public at Macy's department store. The homes, which had been designed by Andrew Geller, had originally been on display at the "Typical American House" at the American Exhibition in Moscow. Following a group of approximately 200 of the homes constructed in Montauk, New York in 1963 and 1964, the same developer, Herbert Sadkin of the New York-based All-State Properties reprised his success in New York, building a series of similar homes in Florida, calling the development Lauderhill.
In 2003, the New York Times described the Macy's homes:
In 1970, the Inverrary Country Club was built, and in 1972 its golf course became home to the Jackie Gleason Inverrary Classic. Gleason himself built his final home on the golf course. Up until the late 1980s-early 1990s, Lauderhill was mostly a retirement community for Jews and a second home for snowbirds (especially in the Inverrary neighborhood). It is now home to mostly Jamaicans, West Indians and African Americans, but it still has a sizeable white, Jewish, and Hispanic population in the Northwest section and in the Inverrary neighborhood, located north of Oakland Park Boulevard and east of University Drive).
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