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Cass Street

124 reports at 21 addresses in Sydenham, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 84 separate days somebody filed something about it.

124 reports21 addresses84 days reported onfrom the air, then42 documents carry the name1 businessesthe 839th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

14 Cass Street, 29 reports10 Cass Street, 21 reports40 Cass Street, 19 reports13 Cass Street, 11 reports16–38 Cass Street, 10 reports6 Cass Street, 7 reports5 Cass Street, 5 reports16 Cass Street, 5 reports1-5 Cass Street, 3 reports24 Cass Street, 2 reports11 Cass Street, 2 reports8 Cass Street, 1 report7 Cass Street, 1 report6–8 Cass Street, 1 report4 Cass Street, 1 report31 Cass Street, 1 report22 Cass Street, 1 report15 Cass Street, 1 report14-40 Cass Street, 1 report12–14 Cass Street, 1 report1 Cass Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Cass Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Cass Street from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Cass Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Cass Street from the air, 1975-1979
1975-1979 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

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 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. 42 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

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

The businesses on it, 1

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

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Cass Street in 2 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The crashes it names, each one →

Its file in the papers

Papers Past records that surfaced when the archive searched for the street’s name, they answered the search; whether they are about this street is a reader’s call, at the link.

As it was reported

Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoGraffiti on a road, footpath or bridge, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoRubbish and Bins - General, a report photoGraffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa, 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 photo more photographs
on the Sydenham wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Cass Street?

In Sydenham, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Cass Street?

124 reports at 21 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (84), rubbish & dumping (21), roads & footpaths (8).

When was Cass Street first reported on?

2016, the record covers 84 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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