On Miami's Lincoln Road, variety spices the life

MIAMI - It’s 73 degrees on a Saturday night in January and the crowds are promenading slowly along this pedestrian mall in South Beach. Young women in 6-inch heels toss their long tresses and tug at their skin-tight dresses as they stroll, mingling with perfumed Latin men, families pushing strollers, T-shirt-clad gawkers, manicured metrosexuals, sunburned tourists, Joan Rivers look-alikes leading tiny dogs on rhinestone-studded leashes, cigar-chomping elders, skateboarding teens, tattooed twentysomethings, stylish gay couples, and me.

“I’ve never been anywhere where there’s such a mix of people,’’ said Rick Hanley, owner of the Pink Palm, a fun, sophisticated urban card and gift shop. “That’s what I love about the street. I’m constantly meeting people from every walk of life.’’

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