Newtown plays host to a variety of styles, cultures and cuisines. It has a diverse and lively community made up of students, gays, families, urban professionals, dogs and a few of the remaining working class inhabitants.

Its main thoroughfare, King Street, stretches from the University of Sydney to the old brick works at St Peters and boasts a reputation of good and cheap cuisine, a thriving cafe scene, an arthouse cinema, numerous book stores, delicious cake shops and a range of specialty stores from grunge to groove.

There are endless pubs from the unadulterated, to the boutique, to the high camp eg. 'Priscilla: Queen of the Desert' was filmed at the Imperial Hotel, as well as 'Love is a Four Letter Word' at the nearby Court House Hotel.

The adjacent park and cemetery is home to the famous and infamous. In the cemetery grounds is the very beautiful St Stephens Church, designed by the well known colonial architect Edmund Blackett.

Newtown is a unique place bearing no comparison to any other (except maybe Fitzroy in Melbourne).

For a good web site with update listings of shows and exhibitions in Newtown as well as where to eat see www.newtownprecinct.com.au

• King Street, Newtown. Many cafes, restaurants, Dendy cinema, bookshops, bakeries, delis, etc. Two minutes walk across Camperdown Park.
• Sydney Airport. 5km or 15 minute taxi ride.
• Victoria Park public swimming pool next to Sydney University is 15 minutes walk or easy bus ride from King Street.
• Sydney University is 5-10 minutes walk.
• Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Enmore Theatre, The Vanguard. 5 minute walk.
• Sydney city centre is 5km or 15-20 minutes bus or train ride from King Street.
• Olympic Stadium is an easy train ride from Newtown train station.