Darlinghurst is an inner-city, eastern suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Darlinghurst is located sharply east of the Sydney central thing district (CBD) and Hyde Park, within the local government Place of the City of Sydney.
Darlinghurst is a densely populated suburb like the majority of residents vibrant in apartments or terraced houses. Once a slum and red-light district, Darlinghurst has undergone urban renewal since the 1980s to become a cosmopolitan area composed of many unique precincts. Places such as Victoria Street (which connects Darlinghurst to Potts Point in the north), Stanley Street (Little Italy) and Crown Street (Vintage and Retro Fashion) are known as culturally wealthy destinations. These high street areas are joined by a network of lane-ways and street corners replete with small bars, cafes and boutique indie retail.
Demographically, Darlinghurst is home to the highest percentage of generation X and Y in Australia. The Big majority of businesses in Darlinghurst are independently owned and operated small businesses with on culmination of 50% of anything commercial ruckus in the Place being consumer oriented: indie retail, food, drink, dining, leisure and personal services. Darlinghurst is also house to large number of off-street creative industries. This situation mix coupled afterward the area’s chronicles of amalgamation and answer give Darlinghurst an eclectic and living flair.
Darlinghurst’s main street is Oxford Street. This major Sydney road runs east from the south-eastern corner of Hyde Park through Darlinghurst and Paddington and terminates at Bondi Junction. Oxford Street is one of Sydney’s most famous shopping and dining strips. The Darlinghurst decrease is renowned around the world as the centre of Sydney’s cheerful community, is the yearly parade route of the Sydney Mardi Gras and the spiritual birthplace of the LGBT rights movement. It is home to a number of prominent gay venues and businesses, while more broadly Darlinghurst is a centre of Sydney’s burgeoning little bar scene.
From the 1990s onwards Oxford Street began to garner a reputation for innate Sydney’s primary “nightclub strip”, popular in the heavens of both cheerful and straight clubbers, surpassing the notorious red-light district of Kings Cross in popularity. As a result of the influx of revellers, crime rates reportedly increased in the area around 2007, particularly for assaults and robberies. This reported enlargement should be understood in terms of a unquestionably low background crime rate in East Sydney in general.
There are a number of named localities in and around Darlinghurst including Taylor Square, Three Saints Square, Kings Cross and confusingly after that East Sydney. Locals have used this say to tackle to the Place immediately just about Stanley Street in the suburb’s west, however the title is used more broadly throughout the Place from Wooloomooloo up to Taylor Square where the out of date Darlinghurst Gaol nevertheless has the words East Sydney in brass lettering above the main entrance. This is because from 1900 to 1969 the entire Place to the east of Sydney’s CBD, from the harbour to Redfern, was an electorate known as the Division of East Sydney.
Already in 1820 every ration of ridge line government from Potts Point to Surry Hills was known as Eastern Hill.
Darlinghurst shares a postcode (2010) and an extensive soft southern be adjacent to with neighbouring suburb Surry Hills which, with Paddington to the east and Woolloomooloo, Rushcutters Bay and Potts Point to the north, comprise the metropolitan region of East Sydney. Although deserted minutes walk away from the Sydney CBD, this region is geographically sure from it; separated from the more well known commercial centre by several landmarks: Central railway station, Hyde Park, St Mary’s Cathedral and The Domain.
East Sydney hosts numerous restaurants that consistently garner local and international media attention.
Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs cover anything the land from the east of Darlinghurst going on to the Pacific Ocean.
