In a forgotten corner of a very popular public park on Key Biscayne, are the ruins of the city’s old zoo.
Now inhabited by the occasional alligator, roaming peacocks, raccoons and untold armies of iguanas scuttling through the brush, the Crandon Park Zoo ruins are a monument to the wisdom of building an animal attraction, just feet from the water on a hurricane-prone island..
Once home to Indian tribes, soldiers and pirates, the land was part of the largest coconut plantation in the United States, operated by William John Matheson…