Park Street, Sydney

Park Street, Sydney New South Wales
Park Street at dusk
Western end Eastern end
Coordinates	33.872969°S 151.207046°E / -33.872969; 151.207046 (Western end) 33.873682°S 151.212594°E / -33.873682; 151.212594 (Eastern end)
General information
Type	Street
Length	500 m (0.3 mi)
Major junctions
Western end	Druitt Street Sydney CBD
	George Street Pitt Street Castlereagh Street Elizabeth Street College Street
Eastern end	William Street Sydney CBD
Location(s)
LGA(s)	City of Sydney
Major suburbs	Sydney CBD

Park Street is a street in the central business district of Sydney in New South Wales, Australia. It runs from George Street in the west to College Street in the east, where it becomes William Street.^[1]

Description

Tram on the corner of Pitt and Park Streets, 1950

Park Street bisects Hyde Park,^[a] hence its name. Publishing and Broadcasting Limited and its successor, Consolidated Media Holdings, had their corporate headquarters at 54 Park Street.^[3]

An electric tramway once ran down Park Street between Elizabeth and College Streets. It was removed in 1960.

See also

Australian Roads portal

Notes

1. Hyde park, the oldest in Australia, was created in 1810 by Governor Macquarie and has a state heritage listing.^[2]

References

1. Gregory's Sydney Street Directory (2002) Maps 3–4
2. State Heritage Site
3. "James Packer's ConsMedia sells Park Street head office in Sydney to AMP Capital Investors". 25 August 2009. Retrieved 5 April 2011.

External links

Template:Attached KML/Park Street, Sydney

KML is from Wikidata

• Shirley Fitzgerald - City of Sydney History Unit (2008). "Poverty Point [corner of Park and Pitt Streets]". Dictionary of Sydney. Retrieved 28 September 2015. [CC-By-SA]