Domino Park

This guide to Domino Park in Miami traces how an empty lot on Calle Ocho became a gathering place for Cuban exiles who fled after the failed 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion, snapping dominoes on bare dirt because it felt like home. Among them were former political prisoners, and regulars say the talk at those tables sometimes turned to plots against Fidel Castro back home. The city folded the space into its park system in 1976, naming it for a Dominican-born general who fought for Cuban independence.