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Downtown Eastside: Neighbourhood by the numbers

62: Number of steps that make up the circular staircase inside the three-storey Carnegie Centre. A separate circular staircase leading to the basement has 20. 3.
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1: The number of grocery stores that share a name with Ireland's most famous band. Photo: Andrew Fleming

62: Number of steps that make up the circular staircase inside the three-storey Carnegie Centre. A separate circular staircase leading to the basement has 20.

3.50: In dollars, the hourly honorarium for volunteers working at the weekly binners market on Carrall Street.

47: In dollars, the cost of a shot of Balblair 1979, the most expensive single malt at the Shebeen Whisk(e)y House on Carrall Street.

35: In km/h, the reduced speed limit along Hastings Street introduced to curb the number of injuries and fatalities caused by rampant jaywalking.

4: Percentage of rooms in privately run SRO hotels rented for the welfare shelter rate of $375, according to a new Carnegie Community Action Project housing survey.

96: Number of new social housing units being built inside a vacant former jail.

2.3: In millions of dollars, the amount of money the park board spent to redevelop Oppenheimer Park in 2009.

25: In cents, the cost of a crack pipe from new vending machines located in the Drug Users Resource Centre and the Shaldon Hotel.

600: Maximum capacity at the Rickshaw Theatre, a former moviehouse that reopened as a live music venue in 2011.

100.5: The FM radio frequency signal of Vancouver Co-operative Radio CFRO, a non-commercial station that has been broadcasting from the neighbourhood since 1973.

6: Number of replica antique machine guns on display at the Vancouver Police Museum.

80: In dollars, the price of tickets to see four shows at the Firehall Arts Centre. Hirsch, the story of renowned theatre artist John Hirsch, closes March 1 and the world premiere of Porno Death Cult happens March 5.

700: The total number of housing units in the Woodward’s complex. Two hundred are social housing and the rest are market share condos.

1: Number of convenience stores with the same name as Ireland’s most famous band.

260,000: The average number of free meals served each year by Union Gospel Mission.