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Fitzroy Street | |
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| Looking east up Fitzroy Street to the corner of Grey Street, during the Midsumma Pride March in 2008 | |
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| Type | Street |
| Length | 1.1 km (0.7 mi)[1] |
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| West end | The Esplanade St Kilda, Melbourne |
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| East end |  St Kilda Road Punt RoadSt Kilda, Melbourne |
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| LGA(s) | City of Port Phillip |
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Fitzroy Street is the major thoroughfare of the beachside Melbourne suburb of St Kilda. Its fortunes have risen and fallen along with that of St Kilda itself, from wealthy residential district to a popular working and middle class beachside entertainment district, to cheap and seedy, and popular again in the late 20th century. In recent years Fitzroy Street itself has gone from a popular restaurant strip to the situation in 2017 where only a few restaurants remain amongst kebab shops and convenience stores catering the backpackers and many empty shopfronts.[2] It is named after Charles Augustus FitzRoy, Governor of New South Wales (which included the area of Victoria) in 1842 when St Kilda was first subdivided.
- ^ "Fitzroy Street" (Map). Google Maps. Retrieved 15 December 2021.
- ^ "Fitzroy Street's decline a tale of old and new St Kilda". The Age. Retrieved 18 March 2017.