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McCarthy Street

115 reports at 41 addresses in Hoon Hay, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 101 separate days somebody filed something about it.

115 reports41 addresses101 days reported onfrom the air, then8 documents carry the name2 businessesthe 692nd street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

16 McCarthy Street, 20 reports2 McCarthy Street, 11 reports12 McCarthy Street, 9 reports5 McCarthy Street, 5 reports7 McCarthy Street, 4 reports49A McCarthy Street, 4 reports9 McCarthy Street, 3 reports4 McCarthy Street, 3 reports28a McCarthy Street, 3 reports27 McCarthy Street, 3 reports20 McCarthy Street, 3 reports15 McCarthy Street, 3 reports11 McCarthy Street, 3 reports1 McCarthy Street, 3 reports8 McCarthy Street, 2 reports51 McCarthy Street, 2 reports43 McCarthy Street, 2 reports34 McCarthy Street, 2 reports3 McCarthy Street, 2 reports25 McCarthy Street, 2 reports2-6 McCarthy Street, 2 reports19 McCarthy Street, 2 reports14 McCarthy Street, 2 reports12A McCarthy Street, 2 reports10 McCarthy Street, 2 reports4A McCarthy Street, 1 report41 McCarthy Street, 1 report39 McCarthy Street, 1 report38 McCarthy Street, 1 report36 McCarthy Street, 1 report35 McCarthy Street, 1 report33 McCarthy Street, 1 report32 McCarthy Street, 1 report30 McCarthy Street, 1 report28 McCarthy Street, 1 report23 McCarthy Street, 1 report22 McCarthy Street, 1 report21-23 McCarthy Street, 1 report18 McCarthy Street, 1 report15-17 McCarthy Street, 1 report13 McCarthy Street, 1 report

Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on McCarthy Street, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Hoon Hay.

From the air, then

McCarthy Street from the air, 1925-1929
1925-1929 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · RNZAF
McCarthy Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
McCarthy Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
McCarthy Street from the air, 1975-1979
1975-1979 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Sourced from Canterbury Maps and partners. RNZAF, 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 addresses on it

What got reported

Year by year

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 8 on the shelf; the 6 earliest:

The rest are a search away, the whole shelf, for the name →

The businesses on it, 2

Premises whose address in the directory is McCarthy Street, the commercial record alongside the civic one.

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names McCarthy Street in 5 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The crashes it names, each one →

As it was reported

Graffiti on a bus stop or public toilet, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoAbandoned Vehicle, a report photoSewer - Leak / Blockage, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoAbandoned Vehicle, a report photoRoads - General, a report photo more photographs
on the Hoon Hay wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is McCarthy Street?

In Hoon Hay, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on McCarthy Street?

115 reports at 41 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (41), water & drains (21), rubbish & dumping (21).

When was McCarthy Street first reported on?

2016, the record covers 101 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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