The Miami Heat have found a new way to honor longtime team president Pat Riley.

When they open the season later this month, they’ll do so by playing on the new Pat Riley Court at the Kaseya Center. The team announced this week that it will be officially dedicating the floor at their arena in Riley’s honor.

Riley is entering his 30th season running the Heat this fall. After a long run with both the Los Angeles Lakers, where he won four championships, and the New York Knicks, Riley was hired as the Heat’s head coach ahead of the 1995-96 campaign. He compiled a 454-395 record over the next 11 seasons and helped lead the franchise to a championship in 2006 with Dwyane Wade and Shaquille O’Neal.

He transitioned into the front office in 2008, where he helped land LeBron James and lead the Heat to another pair of NBA titles and four consecutive NBA Finals appearances. Riley was named to the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in 2008, too.

The Heat went 46-36 last season and made the playoffs for a fifth straight year under coach Erik Spoelstra, who took over for Riley in 2008. They will officially open the regular season on Oct. 23 against the Orlando Magic.

Ensenada, Williamsburg’s Mexican seafood and mezcal hotspot, is coming to Miami, with plans to open in late 2024. Co-owners Bryce David and chef Luis Herrera announced the expansion late last week on Instagram, saying that they are bringing their award-winning coastal Mexican concept to the longstanding Vagabond space.

The decision to expand to Miami came after years of searching for the right space. “We’ve been looking at spaces both in New York and Miami for a while,” said David, who also has roots in Florida, where he went to high school and college. When the opportunity to take over the Vagabond space arose, everything clicked. “We love the space, and when it came up, it just felt kind of serendipitous,” David said.

David, co-founder of Brooklyn’s Black Flamingo, and Herrera, who previously worked at top kitchens like Cosme and Blanca, have turned Ensenada into a Williamsburg favorite since its debut in 2022. Mexico heavily influences the restaurant’s menu, which includes dishes like agua chiles, ceviche, and Ensenada-style fish tacos. Other menu standouts include octopus tlayuda and tuna tostadas with soy and sesame. The restaurant’s beverage program focuses heavily on mezcal and agave-based cocktails, which are meant to complement the seafood-centric menu.

Herrera is excited to expand the restaurant’s menu at the new Miami location. “Our concept fits Miami really well,” he said, noting that while staples from Brooklyn will remain, the Miami menu will highlight Florida seafood and produce. The larger kitchen at the Vagabond space allows the team to introduce new dishes, such as tacos al pastor made on a pastor trompo—a method they couldn’t use in New York. “We’ll have the space to grill and cook with gas, which we don’t have here,” Herrera said.

Ensenada aims to debut in late 2024 at 350 NE 199th Street in Miami.

Some residents along Florida’s Gulf coast who are having to evacuate due to Hurricane Milton will be riding out the storm in Miami.

From her laptop to clothes to important documents, Adrianna Albelo-Hermida said she grabbed everything she could quickly fit into her car before getting on the road to head to her parents house in Miami Monday afternoon.

“I was just grabbing and going,” Albelo-Hermida said. “I would walk back in and this is something I need to take. I need to take this with me.”

She lives in Estero, about 10 minutes away from Fort Meyers, an area in the path of Hurricane Milton.

On Monday morning, she got back-to-back text alerts on her phone to evacuate.

“Packing a bag and not knowing how long you’re going to stay somewhere, that’s definitely really hard,” she said.

She drove three hours in bumper-to-bumper traffic not knowing what things will look like once she gets back.

“I’m definitely relieved I’m with my family, but a part of me is very nervous about what going home is gonna look like going back to Fort Meyers,” she said. “Is my apartment still gonna be there? Is it gonna be underwater?”

Meanwhile, the city of Miami is taking steps to prepare for Milton’s impact.

More than a dozen temporary pump stations have been set up in flood-prone areas.

The county is also opening a shelter at the pavilion at Tamiami Park where doors open Tuesday morning.

“Hopefully everything thing is good, and it’s just a little scare and it’s not anything big but, we shall see,” Albelo-Hermida said.