East Sydney is a small inner-city locality in Sydney

Sydney

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, New South Wales

New South Wales

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, Australia

Australia

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. It is situated immediately east of the Sydney central business district

Sydney central business district

The Sydney central business district is the main commercial centre of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It extends southwards for about 3 kilometres from Sydney Cove, the point of first European settlement. Its north–south axis runs from Circular Quay in the north to Central railway station in...

, adjacent to Hyde Park

Hyde Park, Sydney

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East Sydney is a locality within the suburbs of Darlinghurst

Darlinghurst, New South Wales

Darlinghurst is an inner-city, eastern suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Darlinghurst is located immediately east of the Sydney central business district and Hyde Park, within the local government area of the City of Sydney...

 and Woolloomooloo

Woolloomooloo, New South Wales

Woolloomooloo is a harbourside, inner-city eastern suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Woolloomooloo is located 1.5 kilometres east of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Sydney. The suburb is located in a low-lying, former...

 in the City of Sydney

City of Sydney

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. With the exception of William Street

William Street, Sydney

William Street is a major thoroughfare in Sydney, Australia. It runs from Kings Cross to Hyde Park where it turns into Park Street. The street forms the border between the two suburbs of Woolloomooloo and Darlinghurst. Today the newly completed Cross City Tunnel follows much of the route of William...

, the suburb remains primarily a residential area, and council proposals for street closures in 2005 mean it will probably stay that way. Stanley Street

Stanley Street, East Sydney

Stanley Street is a small street in the East Sydney district, which is part of the suburb of Darlinghurst, Sydney, Australia.-Description:Stanley Street is primarily residential, but was the centre of Sydney's original Italian community in the 1950s and 1960s, and was subsequently part of Sydney's...

 and Crown Street

Crown Street, Sydney

Crown Street is a street in the Sydney suburbs of Woolloomooloo, East Sydney and Surry Hills. The Surry Hills section is lined with restaurants and shops, as well as the former Crown Street Women's Hospital.-History:...

 feature many restaurants with different cuisines. Italian

Italian cuisine

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 is the most popular type championed by Bill & Toni's on Stanley St, as East Sydney was Sydney's primary Italian community in the 1960s and 1970s and the area is still sometimes called Little Italy

Little Italy

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Sport and recreation

East Sydney is represented in one of the most popular sporting competitions in Australia, the National Rugby League

National Rugby League

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, by the local Rugby League

Rugby league

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 club, the Sydney Roosters

Sydney Roosters

The Sydney Roosters are an Australian professional rugby league football club based in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney. The club competes in the National Rugby League and is one of the oldest and most successful clubs in Australian rugby league history, having won twelve New South Wales Rugby League...

. The Roosters have represented the area in the League since 1908. The previous long-term sponsor of the Roosters, City Ford (formerly Hastings Deering), is based on William Street in East Sydney.

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