Rose Bay is a harbourside eastern suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.

On 14 September 1945, nine Catalina flying boats landed and moored at the Rose Bay wharf, repatriating Australian prisoners of war who were survivors of Japanese camps.

[4] The Wintergarden Cinema was a landmark building which housed the Sydney Film Festival from 1968 to 1973, but which was demolished to make way for exclusive apartments in the late 1980s.

[5] Rose Bay has a number of heritage-listed sites, including: Rose Bay Cottage and also known as Salisbury Court, located in Salisbury Road, was built in 1834 by the important colonial architect, John Verge, for James Holt who, at the time, managed the 'Cooper Estate'.

The house was built as a single-storey residence of about 225 square metres (2,420 sq ft) with a verandah, over a similar sized stone cellar.

Prominent occupiers of the house included Sir Daniel Cooper, Walter Lamb and John Hay – they were all noted businessmen and parliamentarians.

henneana, planted in c. 1827, located in the former castle grounds is listed on the New South Wales State Heritage Register.

[6] This police station originally started life as the gatekeeper's lodge in the estate of Woollahra House, a nineteenth-century mansion that has long gone.

[9] The surviving building was designed in a Victorian Classical Revival style which is attributed to 'Hilly and Mansfield' and which probably tells us what Woollahra House looked like.

The cost of improving the public school facilities at Rose Bay was linked to the sale of the campus at Vaucluse.

Despite a surge in enrolments and an unmet demand for public high school places in the area, the Vaucluse campus was sold in February 2007 by the Government of New South Wales for $30M to become a seniors community development site.

Designed by John Horbury Hunt, the new building was of five storeys in height and made of sandstone that was quarried at the site.

There are frequent Transdev John Holland buses to and from the centre of Sydney via Kings Cross as well as other points and out to Watsons Bay and the coast.

In 1902 a reserve named in honour of Sir William Lyne was reclaimed from tidal sand flats at Rose Bay.

It is still a strong centre for the Jewish population of Sydney, and has attracted a sizeable number of immigrants from Israel, South Africa and Russia.

[citation needed] According to the 2021 census, there are 2,758 flats in Rose Bay, or 68.8% of all dwellings, compared to an Australian average of 14.2%.

It depicts the character Esther Prescott, who is transported from a sheltered, genteel life in the harbourside suburb to a Kings Cross apartment with her moody, unpredictable husband Stan.