No one seems to know how this road beside a borrow pit pond in northwest Miami-Dade got its name.
Many a mystery haunts the swampy wetlands and sun-baked streets of Miami, and this one confounds even the most well-versed city historians: In northwest Miami-Dade County, where there once stood a thriving town of sugar farmers now lost to time, lies a road with the inexplicable name of “Pizza st,” at least according to Google Earth satellite imagery. A few weeks ago, Jason Katz, publisher of the local zine Islandia Journal, made the momentous discovery while studying artificial lakes on Google Maps for an upcoming project.…