The tower and clock of North Sydney Post Office. It also used to house the local police station and courthouse.
The City’s Second Main Business Area
North Sydney is a three-minute train ride across the Harbour Bridge from the Sydney central business district, and is full of medium-rise office blocks.
On weekdays, North Sydney bustles with hurrying office workers, but on the weekends or after-hours, the area is next to dead.
There is very little to attract outside visitors to the area, except for perhaps the North Sydney Leagues Club. It is a short taxi ride away from the business and residential parts of the suburb; and if anything it is closer to Crows Nest.
North Sydney is the last suburb on the Pacific Highway if you’re driving south towards the Sydney Harbour Bridge, or the first suburb if you are heading north. The Pacific Highway stretches all the way from the south end of Australia right up to the northern tip.
Be careful about parking because the traffic wardens, (parking police who rake in parking fine money for the North Sydney council) are as fierce there as the ones in the centre of the Sydney CBD. And the parking citations are not cheap.
Far more pleasant to visit than North Sydney is nearby Milsons Point, from where you can walk back across the Sydney Harbour Bridge to Sydney city itself. Or you can travel north by train, bus or taxi to Crows Nest, a pleasant north shore suburb with many shops, pubs, cafes and restaurants.
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