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Longfellow Street

67 reports at 26 addresses in Sydenham, the first in 2018, the latest 2026. 53 separate days somebody filed something about it.

67 reports26 addresses53 days reported on1 on the registerfrom the air, then18 documents carry the namethe 1250th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

54-58 Longfellow Street, 8 reports66 Longfellow Street, 5 reports45a Longfellow Street, 5 reports40 Longfellow Street, 5 reports2 Longfellow Street, 5 reports60 Longfellow Street, 4 reports48 Longfellow Street, 4 reports35 Longfellow Street, 4 reports21 Longfellow Street, 4 reports41 Longfellow Street, 3 reports29 Longfellow Street, 3 reports42 Longfellow Street, 2 reports38 Longfellow Street, 2 reports9 Longfellow Street, 1 report72 Longfellow Street, 1 report65 Longfellow Street, 1 report54 Longfellow Street, 1 report50 Longfellow Street, 1 report43 Longfellow Street, 1 report33 Longfellow Street, 1 report28A Longfellow Street, 1 report25 Longfellow Street, 1 report20 Longfellow Street, 1 report18 Longfellow Street, 1 report17 Longfellow Street, 1 report16 Longfellow Street, 1 reportDwelling and Setting: register

Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Longfellow Street, not the street’s surveyed line. Register places with a known pin sit on it too. The strong outline is Sydenham.

From the air, then

Longfellow Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Longfellow Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Longfellow 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

On the register

On foot, The flat that kept its fabric walks this street.

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 18 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

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

The named ground

the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.

Housing Lancewood Courts set of steps · 90 m away Housing Lancewood Courts set of steps · 94 m away Housing Lancewood Courts set of steps · 107 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Longfellow Street in 2 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The crashes it names, each one →

As it was reported

Dumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDamaged Road, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoWater General, a report photoStreet Cleaning, a report photoPavement - General, a report photoGeneral Request, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoWater General, a report photo more photographs
on the Sydenham wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Longfellow Street?

In Sydenham, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Longfellow Street?

67 reports at 26 addresses, most often water & drains (21), graffiti & vandalism (16), roads & footpaths (11).

When was Longfellow Street first reported on?

2018, the record covers 53 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

What heritage places are on Longfellow Street?

Dwelling and Setting.

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