North Lake or South Lake: one drawbridge more
Hollywood Lakes is built around two lakes that open east onto the Intracoastal, and the Hollywood Boulevard drawbridge sits between their mouths. Coast Pilot 4 puts a small yacht basin and launching ramp at the south-east corner of North Lake at Mile 1072.1, a tenth of a mile north of the bridge at 1072.2.
So a boat leaving North Lake for Port Everglades passes two drawbridges, Sheridan Street and Dania Beach Boulevard, both 22 feet when closed. Leave from South Lake or Three Islands and Hollywood Boulevard, at 25 feet, is added to the list. The schedules are staggered: Sheridan opens at quarter past and quarter to, the other two on the hour and half-hour.
The barrier island and the choice of inlet
Hollywood's North Beach and South Central Beach neighbourhoods fill the barrier island inside 33019, with the ocean on one side and the Intracoastal on the other. From the southern half of the ZIP, the inlets are at similar distances: Port Everglades to the north, Bakers Haulover to the south, 11.6 miles apart.
The difference is overhead. Going north, every bridge opens. Going south, the NE 192nd Street bridge is fixed at 65 feet and the A1A bridge over Haulover Inlet is fixed at 32 feet, with Coast Pilot noting currents of close to 3 knots in the cut. A buyer with a tall boat will run north. One with an open boat may prefer Haulover.
Hollywood's bond money raises the public walls, not yours
Hollywood voters approved a general obligation bond in March 2019, and the city is using it to raise publicly owned seawalls and add flood barriers around Holland Park, along the Intracoastal and around North and South Lakes. That work is in phases.
Private walls are the owner's job. Ordinance O-2022-01 put the regional standard into the city code as section 150.30, and the city's guidance is plain: new walls and walls improved by more than half their length or cost must reach 4 feet NAVD88 if built before 2035 and 5 feet by 2050, and owners who let tidal water spill onto neighbours or streets can be cited and fined.
A $974,000 median and 109 days to contract
Miami Realtors counted 133 single-family closings in 33019 in 2025, the same as in 2024, while the median price rose 10.7% to $974,000. The median home took 109 days to go under contract, about half as long again as the year before, and sellers received 89.3% of their original asking price.
The report also shows 97 active listings, or 8.8 months of supply. In a slower market like that, a buyer who does not need a mortgage or a showing schedule is worth more to a seller than usual.