Just above the Julia Tuttle: 56 feet south, 32 north
Bay Point runs down to about NE 41st Street and Morningside sits between NE 55th and NE 60th, so both are a short way north of the Julia Tuttle Causeway at NE 36th. Southbound, the causeway's fixed span gives 56 feet. After it come the Venetian drawbridge, 12 feet shut and on a half-hourly timetable by day, and the 65-foot MacArthur span, then the port and Government Cut. From Morningside that is roughly three miles of waterway to MacArthur.
Northbound is longer and lower. A Morningside boat covers some six miles to the Haulover turn, through the 79th Street and Broad Causeway drawbridges, and then meets the inlet's fixed 32-foot bridge. So for anything with a tower, these docks face south, and a buyer measures the boat against 56 feet, not 32.
Morningside's historic district and the preservation board
The City of Miami designated Morningside in 1984, and the district runs from Biscayne Boulevard to the bay between NE 55th and NE 60th Streets. Inside it, knocking down a house or building a new one is not a staff sign-off. It needs a Special Certificate of Appropriateness, heard by the Historic and Environmental Preservation Board.
That shapes what a bay-front Morningside lot is worth to a builder, and how long a new house takes. We take it into account in the offer rather than asking you to apply first. If your house is outside the district boundary, even by a street, say so; the answer can change.
Bay Point's gate, and Edgewater to the south
Bay Point is a gated enclave of about 250 houses east of Biscayne Boulevard between NE 41st and NE 50th Streets, many of them on the water. The Morningside district stops at NE 55th Street, so Bay Point, further south, lies outside that boundary; the city's 6-foot seawall standard applies there all the same.
Magnolia Park, between NE 37th and NE 39th Streets, sits right beside the causeway. Below it, Edgewater's bay front is also 33137, and a lot there is south of the Julia Tuttle, so the 56-foot span is behind it rather than in its way.
Median $1.7 million, average $3.2 million
Miami Realtors counted 59 single-family sales in 33137 in 2025. The median was $1,710,000 and the average $3,244,514; a gap that wide means a handful of very large bay-front sales sitting on top of a much larger number of inland ones.
Thirty-three of the 59 were cash. Houses took a median of 87 days to sell and there were 11.6 months of supply at the year's end. For a bay lot, the average is the closer guide, and even that mixes water and dry streets.