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York Street is a street in the
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in
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, Australia. York Street runs in a north to south direction only.


Route

From its northern terminus at the junction of Grosvenor Street with the Bradfield Highway, York Street runs south past Wynyard railway station, with major intersections at
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and
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streets. The southern terminus of York Street is at Druitt Street, adjacent to the
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and the
Queen Victoria Building The Queen Victoria Building (abbreviated as the QVB) is a heritage-listed late-19th-century building located at 429–481 George Street, Sydney, George Street in the Sydney central business district, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. D ...
. Between Market Street and Druitt Street, traffic is restricted to buses, bicycles and service vehicles only. The
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and
North Shore railway line The North Shore Line is a railway line serving the North Shore in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The North Shore Line extends from Sydney Central station through the western limb of the City Circle, across the Sydney Harbour Bridge and ...
s run under York Street.


History

Named in 1810 by
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Lachlan Macquarie Major-general (United Kingdom), Major General Lachlan Macquarie, Companion of the Order of the Bath, CB (; ; 31 January 1762 – 1 July 1824) was a British Army officer and colonial administrator from Scotland. Macquarie served as the fifth Gove ...
after the
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, the second eldest child, and second son, of
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, and brother of
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. It was originally known as Barracks Row as it began at the old Barracks parade ground. The southern end became home to many import and export companies, being attracted to the area by the markets established there in Macquarie's time. The northern end beyond Wynyard Square did not come into existence until 1848 when the land occupied by the Wynyard Barracks was resumed and subdivided. Half of this new section, along with Princes Street into which it ran, disappeared with the resumption of land for the
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approaches in The Rocks area. On 21 July 1997, a
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was introduced along the full length of York Street.


Points of interest

* Scots Presbyterian Church at 2 York, on the corner with Margaret Street, was founded in 1882. The current building dates from 1929. *
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, a heritage-listed building located at 19–31 York, constructed in the early 1930s as the administrative home of the New South Wales State Railways. * The AWA Building and Tower, a heritage-listed building located at 45 York, was the Sydney's tallest between 1939 and 1967. Completed just before
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and built to the 46 metres height limit of the day, it is a brick-faced building with projecting vertical ribs and parapet decoration in the form of a Pegasus in bass relief, the Pegasus being the company's logo. * 73 York Street, built as a five-storey warehouse (plus basement). Believed to have been designed by Herbert S.Thompson, the facade is a fine example of the Victorian Mannerist style. * The Grace Hotel at 77–79 York, a heritage-listed art-deco building opened in 1930 and modelled on
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's
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that is now a hotel. Designed by Morrow & Gordon and built by Kell & Rigby during the late 1920s, the Grace Building was opened in 1930 by
Grace Bros Grace Bros was an Australian department store chain, founded in 1885. It was bought by Myer (later Coles Myer) in 1983. There were 25 stores across New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory plus a few in Victoria, until they wer ...
, the Australian department store magnates, as their headquarters. * Hong Kong House, a heritage-listed building located at 149 York, formerly the Gresham Hotel and Central Hotel, is situated on a prominent site on the corner of York and Druitt Streets forming part of the Town Hall streetscape. It is a five-storey building of Victorian Free Classical Style.


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External links

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