Aug 23, 2022
There are very few public places in the Inner West with an unobstructed view of the span of the Sydney Harbour Bridge despite its close proximity, but here's one of them - at the very end of the Balmain peninsular. That's Millers Point in the foreground; once a shipping and industrial area, re-vegetated in 2003 and converted to parkland, preserving Sydney Sandstone landmarks from the early 19th century. On the down side, social housing was also controversially sold off with the deliberately run-down old terrace houses converted to private multi-million dollar über-lux apartments behind the restored original facades. They called gentrification on steroids "progress". Balmain.