Surry Hills, New South Wales
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Surry Hills is an inner-city suburb of Sydney, in the state New South Wales, Australia. It is located immediately south-east of the Sydney central business district in the local government area of the City of Sydney. The postcode is 2010.
Surry Hills is surrounded by the suburbs of Darlinghurst to the north, Chippendale to the west, Redfern to the south and Moore Park and Paddington to the east.
Central is a locality in the north-west of the suburb around Central Station. Prince Alfred Park is located nearby. Major thoroughfares are Crown Street, Cleveland Street, Bourke Street and Foveaux Street.
Once a working class suburb with a reputation for crime and vices, and a centre for the Sydney rag trade, Surry Hills today remains Sydney's main centre for fashion wholesale activities. Demographically Surry Hills is now characterised as a mixture of relatively affluent newcomers who have gentrified the suburb, long-time residents and an enormous number of transients. The large number of hostels and other facilities for transients and the homeless in the area, particularly those provided by the Salvation Army, combined with the proximity to the centre of Sydney, mean that Surry Hills has the greatest concentration of such people in Australia.
Architecturally, Surry Hills is largely composed of Victorian terraced housing, but with some warehouses and several large developments of apartment buildings from the twentieth century in the west of the suburb.
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