following the death of sir george grey in 1898 the northwestern portion was renamed grey lynn, leaving newton as the area between karangahape road and eden terrace - since the creation of the motorway in the 1960s many people do not think of karangahape road as being part of newton, reserving that name for the area around upper symonds street. the newton post office has always been on karangahape road; the first one from 1878 was on the corner of cobden street (demolished 1970). its replacement (built 1973) is located on karangahape road at the corner of east street. from the late victorian period until 2011, there was a separate post office serving newton and eden terrace, known as upper symonds street.