Brownsville (also known as Brown Sub[5]) is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) that is part of the Miami metropolitan area of South Florida.

Black families began moving into the neighborhood between the late 1940s and early 1960s as the population surrounding nearby Liberty Square expanded and many inner-city whites moved to newly built suburban subdivisions surrounding Miami city proper in the wake of World War II.

That same year, members of the Ku Klux Klan burned crosses in lawns and marched against black home ownership in the area.

However, the wake of the Civil Rights Act of 1968 that outlawed restrictive covenants, and riots in 1968 and 1980 brought about the black flight of middle and upper-class families from the community.

Brownsville experienced continued population loss from 1970 until 2000, as part of a greater suburbanization trend among the U.S. upwardly-mobile middle class.

The project cost $100 million to build, and is composed of 467 units in five high-rise residential towers with ground-floor retail centered around the Brownsville Metro station.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the Brownsville CDP has a total area of 2.3 square miles (6.0 km2), all of it land.

[17] Brownsville is home to Georgette's Tea Room House and the Seventh-day Adventist Church that owns it.