Uptown, where’s that? To most Aucklanders familiar with the isthmus, it’s a part of town just south of the central area, just over the motorway and just a place you go through to get somewhere else. But it wasn’t always like that. Uptown is what the local business association and residents are calling the area south of Spaghetti Junction: bounded by Upper Symonds Street, Newton Road, Khyber Pass and the northern ends of New North Road and Mount Eden Road. It’s an area that, many decades ago, had a big working-class population, several churches and plenty of shops, venues and light industry.
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