North Sydney

North Sydney is the name of a suburb, local and federal government area, and commercial district on the northern shore of Sydney Harbour in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

North Sydney is located about three kilometers north of the central business district of Sydney, to which it is directly linked by road and rail across the Sydney Harbour Bridge. The commercial district of North Sydney includes the second largest concentration of office buildings in New South Wales, with a large representation from the advertising and information technology industries. Unlike other major suburban hubs within the Sydney metropolitan area, North Sydney has very limited shopping facilities, although there is currently a huge redevelopment of a Shopping World complex along Berry St. The only other main shopping complex, is the hugely successful Greenwood Shopping Centre which is connected to North Sydney station, and runs underneath the CBD. Despite being a busy area, there has been a huge exodus of businesses that have moved their offices to other areas such as North Ryde and Chatswood as the local rent market has been excessively high.

North Sydney Council is proclaimed to have one of the lowest council rates in Australia, which no doubt is due to the strong business presence in the area. It also has three of the country's most prestigious private schools - SHORE, Monte Sant'Angelo, and Wenona. Other schools are Marist Brothers, and the selective North Sydney Boys and North Sydney Girls' Schools. St Aloysius' College of Milson's Point and Loreto Kirribilli are also within the council's reach and the confines of the North Sydney electoral boundary.

The North Sydney local government area includes the suburb of North Sydney and the surrounding suburbs of Crows Nest, Wollstonecraft, Waverton, Neutral Bay, McMahon's Point, Kirribilli, Cremorne, and North Sydney Bears