SR 953 intersects Bird Road and leaves the campus of Coral Gables High School, entering a pure residential area and remains that way until reaching University Drive.

It continues north through Miami as a commercial street until an interchange with the Dolphin Expressway (SR 836), where the road becomes a divider between the International Links Miami-Melreese golf course to the east and a parking lot to the west.

[2][3] North of SR 916, Le Jeune Road continues for 0.6 miles (0.97 km), towards a dead-end inside Opa-locka Airport.

1878, Belgium) who came to Florida around 1900 and acquired 140 acres (57 ha) of coral rock land on which he used dynamite to create tillable soil, and then cultivated orange, grapefruit and lime groves.

In 1914, Charles Le Jeune sold his groves to (George) Merrick, developer of Coral Gables, Florida, for $1,700,000.