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Baker Street

105 reports at 59 addresses in New Brighton, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 82 separate days somebody filed something about it.

105 reports59 addresses82 days reported onfrom the air, then79 documents carry the namethe 853rd street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

179 Baker Street, 9 reports118 Baker Street, 5 reports116 Baker Street, 4 reports97 Baker Street, 3 reports96 Baker Street, 3 reports91 Baker Street, 3 reports53 Baker Street, 3 reports40 Baker Street, 3 reports95B Baker Street, 2 reports95 Baker Street, 2 reports93 Baker Street, 2 reports92 Baker Street, 2 reports87 Baker Street, 2 reports78 Baker Street, 2 reports74A Baker Street, 2 reports71 Baker Street, 2 reports69A Baker Street, 2 reports54 Baker Street, 2 reports5 Baker Street, 2 reports38 Baker Street, 2 reports32B Baker Street, 2 reports2 Baker Street, 2 reports177 Baker Street, 2 reports174 Baker Street, 2 reports139 Baker Street, 2 reports121 Baker Street, 2 reports120 Baker Street, 2 reports112 Baker Street, 2 reports108 Baker Street, 2 reports99 Baker Street, 1 report98A Baker Street, 1 report98-76 Baker Street, 1 report98 Baker Street, 1 report94B Baker Street, 1 report94A Baker Street, 1 report94 Baker Street, 1 report67 Baker Street, 1 report43 Baker Street, 1 report26 Baker Street, 1 report21A Baker Street, 1 report21 Baker Street, 1 report180 Baker Street, 1 report173 Baker Street, 1 report172 Baker Street, 1 report170 Baker Street, 1 report169 Baker Street, 1 report168 Baker Street, 1 report167 Baker Street, 1 report163 Baker Street, 1 report160 Baker Street, 1 report157 Baker Street, 1 report14 Baker Street, 1 report130 Baker Street, 1 report13 Baker Street, 1 report121A Baker Street, 1 report115 Baker Street, 1 report114 Baker Street, 1 report113 Baker Street, 1 report100 Baker Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Baker Street from the air, 1925-1929
1925-1929 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · RNZAF
Baker Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Baker Street from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Baker Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Baker 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. 79 on the shelf; the 4 earliest:

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

The named ground

Named water within 150 m of a reported pin, measured to the line or the edge, the open map’s record.

Cockayne Reserve wetland · 31 m away Avon River / Ōtākaro river · 88 m away Knights Drain canal · 141 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Baker Street in 7 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The crashes it names, each one →

As it was reported

Accessibility, a report photoRubbish and Bins - General, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoStreet Light Outage, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoPoles and Signage - General, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoOvergrown Vegetation, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoPavement - General, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photo more photographs
on the New Brighton wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Baker Street?

In New Brighton, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Baker Street?

105 reports at 59 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (35), roads & footpaths (34), rubbish & dumping (21).

When was Baker Street first reported on?

2015, the record covers 82 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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