Notable Residents
Serena Williams, professional tennis player Winner of 15 Grand Slam events and Gold Medal winner in the 2000, 2008 and 2012 Olympics.
Venus Williams, professional tennis player Winner of 7 Grand Slam events and Gold Medal Winner in 2000 and 2012 Olympics
Bruce Fleisher, professional Champions Tour golfer Winner of 18 Champions Tour events including the 2001 U.S. Senior Open, the U.S. Amateur in 1968 and Gold medal winner at the 1969 Maccabiah Games in Israel.
Adele Siegel, co-founder of the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Yeshiva University
Chris Boyd - Nobel Prize Winner, Retired Harvard Economics Professor, and Award Winning Author. He correctly predicted the economic crash in 2007 as well as the world not ending on December 21, 2012. He now enjoys spending time with his 56 grandchildren, Springboard Diving, and training for the annual IronMan Competition. He has been voted by his peers as the worlds worst fantasy football owner. He corr
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“In one notable instance, where the United States Army and a hundred years of persuasion failed, a highway has succeeded. The Seminole Indians surrendered to the Tamiami Trail. From the Everglades the remnants of this race emerged, soon after the trail was built, to set up their palm-thatched villages along the road and to hoist tribal flags as a lure to passing motorists.”
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“In most nineteenth-century cities, both large and small, more than 50 percent—and often up to 75 percent—of the residents in any given year were no longer there ten years later. People born in the twentieth century are much more likely to live near their birthplace than were people born in the nineteenth century.”
—Stephanie Coontz (20th century)