Glebe Point Road, Sydney

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Glebe Point Road is the main road of the inner city suburb of Glebe in Sydney, Australia. It is one of the leading restaurant, café and boutique shopping strips in Sydney and is known as one of its most cosmopolitan areas.

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Glebe Point Road starts in the southern end where Broadway, Sydney meets Parramatta Road in Broadway. This area is frequented by a mix of students from the University of Sydney and the University of Technology, Sydney as well as residents of nearby suburbs: Darlington, Ultimo and Haymarket (also known as Chinatown). Glebe Point Road extends north through Glebe, terminating at Bicentennial Park located on Rozelle Bay.^[1]

The street is lined with terrace houses and was one of the most historic streets in Sydney dating from the early days of settlement when the area was granted to the Anglican Church. This street is the main entry point to the Glebe Estate which was originally owned by the Anglican Church and which was taken over by the Whitlam Government in 1973 for an urban renovation program. The Estate has suffered from rising crime in recent years.

The start of Glebe Point Road has trendy cafés and restaurants. Further down the road are very fashionable and expensive terrace houses that have city and harbour views that go for over a kilometre to the water's edge. In the past thirty years, the area has become gentrified with a strong representation of artists, writers and musicians.

There was an active tramway on Glebe Point Road between 1892 and 1958 when the trams were replaced by buses.