2 Boston Avenue
2 council reports since January 2024, 2 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 8 Boston Avenue, 6 reports on file.
From the air, then
Sourced from Canterbury Maps and partners. LINZ, CC BY 3.0 NZ. Each frame is cut from Environment Canterbury’s historic imagery MapServer for that decade, only where the Footprints layer names a CC BY survey (NZAM-covered spots stay out). RetroLens holds more Crown aerials →
The green nearby
- Warren Park, 72 m to the edge · Sports ground · 16 ha · playground, 19 pieces
- Branston Park, 179 m to the edge · Sports ground · 3 ha · playground, 14 pieces
- Oakley Reserve, 294 m to the edge · playground, 5 pieces
- Springs Halswell Reserve, 409 m to the edge · 4 ha
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
The bus nearby
- Springs Rd near Boston Ave, 79 m away · route 80
- Springs Rd near Boston Ave, 85 m away · route 80
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Hornby, 435 m to the line · walk · bike
Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
Renting nearby
new bonds in Hornby ran about $550 a week, about the city median, the suburb page keeps the rent record →.
What gets reported here
- Water Leak, 1
- Graffiti, 1
Photographed here 2 on record
What’s on record
Water Leak, 9 Mar 2024 Fire hydrant leaking
Graffiti, 28 Jan 2024 The lamp post post here has black pen graffiti on it.
Elsewhere on Boston Avenue
- 8 Boston Avenue, 6 reports
- 36 Boston Avenue, 5 reports
- 25 Boston Avenue, 4 reports
- 28 Boston Avenue, 3 reports
- 4-2 Boston Avenue, 2 reports
- 30 Boston Avenue, 2 reports
- 2–4 Boston Avenue, 2 reports
- 26 Boston Avenue, 2 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Boston Avenue in 4 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
The civic layer
This ground votes in Hornby ward, the Halswell-Hornby-Riccarton community board is its local layer. Ward lines don’t always follow suburb lines; this one is measured at the pin, not the suburb’s centre. The whole roll is at /wards.
Boston Avenue, the whole record → · Everything about Hornby → · What stood on this ground → · On the map → · From the air, RetroLens holds the Crown’s aerials back to 1936; search the address there →
Questions, answered briefly
2 council reports on record since January 2024, most often water leak (1), graffiti (1).
Hornby, Christchurch, on Boston Avenue.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Warren Park, 72 m to its edge, 16 ha.

