10 Facts About Karangahape Road

Karangahape Road is one of the main streets in the central business district of Auckland, New Zealand.

At its intersection with Ponsonby Road in the west, Karangahape Road becomes Great North Road, at its eastern end it connects to Grafton Bridge.

Until the mid 20th century Karangahape Road was the only street in central Auckland with a Maori name, undoubtedly due to its use as a thoroughfare in pre-European times.

Statistical area of Karangahape Road, which includes the streets between Hopetoun Street Beresford Square to the north and the northwestern motorway to the south, covers 0.

The Karangahape Road ridge was the formal southern edge of Auckland City in the 19th century.

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From about 1900 to the early 1960s, K' Karangahape Road was Auckland's busiest shopping street with a large range of clothing and shoe shops and several department stores.

Karangahape Road area was the location of several major churches; The Baptist Tabernacle, The Pitt St Methodist Church, St James' Wellington Street, Congregationalist, St Benedicts, The Church of Christ Scientist, The Church of Christ, The Church of the Epiphany, Church of Jesus, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Chinese Presbyterian Church, the Salvation Army, Pacific Island Church, two Brethren Halls and after 1966, the main Synagogue.

Karangahape Road is probably the most notorious street in the country, as most people imagine it is lined with strip clubs, brothels and adult shops.

Since the mid 1990s K Karangahape Road has become a centre for much of Auckland's bohemian scene, with many venues for alternative music and fringe art as well as the LGBT community.

Karangahape Road was the location of two of the earliest radio stations in the country; In 1923 Charles Pearson obtained a license for the first radio station in Auckland.