Possible Clues:

• Marco Rubio's hometown
• "___ Vice" (Michael Mann TV series)
• Manitoba hamlet
• Note friend from Paris is in US city
• Statement from first person entering road in US city
• US city in which the writer is turned back -- is that so?
• Female famously frozen outside a US city
• City and resort on Biscayne Bay, Florida
• Little Havana site
• Tragic heroine taking in a US resort