| Suburb: | Grey Lynn |
| City: | Auckland City |
| Island: | North Island |
Surrounded by
- to the north
- to the east
- to the south
- to the west
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Ponsonby
Arch Hill, Newton
Kingsland
Western Springs, westmere
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Grey Lynn is an inner residential suburb of Auckland, in the North Island of New Zealand.
The suburb is located three kilometres to the west of the city centre, and is surrounded by the suburbs of Western Springs, Westmere, and Ponsonby. Originally a separate borough, Grey Lynn amalgamated with Auckland city in 1914.
The suburb is centred around Grey Lynn Park which was not part of the original subdivision of 1883 since the land was too steep and too wet to build houses on. In 1914 the land was drained and levelled for playing fields. The park is noted for the annual Grey Lynn Festival which attracts around 100,000 visitors on the third Saturday in November each year.
For many years Grey Lynn was a Polynesian-dominated suburb, however in recent years there has been a wave of "gentrification" accompanied by soaring house prices and increasing numbers of housing developments that have attracted controversy since they are intensive developments and they are out of character with the original timber villas.
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