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Liberty Square, Miami — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Liberty Square is a residential neighbourhood in northwest Miami, part of the wider Liberty City area.
About Liberty Square
Where to stay in Liberty Square
Where you base yourself shapes the visit — here's the character of each area.
Most visitors base themselves elsewhere in Miami and treat Liberty Square as a place to reach by car. Rooms are scarce here. The blocks around New Covenant Presbyterian Church give the neighbourhood its quiet residential grain, while wider Liberty City and neighbouring Overtown put you within a short drive of Downtown Miami and its transit links.
About Liberty Square
What are the main landmarks in Liberty Square?
New Covenant Presbyterian Church anchors the neighbourhood. It stands among the residential blocks of Liberty Square and serves as its most recognisable community landmark, a gathering point that has long tied the surrounding streets of Liberty City together across generations of families. Beyond the church, the appeal is the everyday fabric itself.
What is the history of Liberty Square?
Liberty Square began as a planned public housing community. It was one of the earliest such projects in the American South, laid out as row after row of low apartment blocks for Black families at a time when much of Miami remained segregated. New Covenant Presbyterian Church grew alongside those homes.
The name endures.
Where is Liberty Square?
Liberty Square sits inland in northwest Miami, part of the Liberty City area on the low subtropical flats well back from the coast.
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Updated July 2026