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).
 

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.