East Side communities
East of Ontario Street: Commercial Drive, Main Street, the PNE and the most varied housing stock in the city.
6 local areas east of Ontario Street, and the widest range of housing in the city: Edwardian houses off Commercial Drive, Vancouver Specials by the thousand in Renfrew-Collingwood and Kensington-Cedar Cottage, and new towers around the Joyce and Nanaimo SkyTrain stations. East Side prices sit meaningfully below West Side prices for equivalent stock — the gap is the city's oldest real-estate fact.
The east side carries most of the city's SkyTrain stations, which means the commute calculus is different here: a Renfrew-Collingwood address can reach downtown faster than a Dunbar one, despite the map suggesting otherwise.
Grandview-Woodland
Commercial Drive's neighbourhood — Italian espresso bars, a century of protest history and East Van's best-kept Edwardian houses.
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Hastings-Sunrise
The port-side east end around the PNE, with a mountain view down every north-south street.
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Kensington-Cedar Cottage
Kingsway cuts it on the diagonal: hilly, multilingual and one of the city's more attainable detached-house areas.
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Mount Pleasant
Main Street's craft-brewery blocks meeting Olympic Village — East Van's fastest-changing neighbourhood.
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Renfrew-Collingwood
From the Joyce–Collingwood towers to the Renfrew ravines, one of the country's most diverse square miles.
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Riley Park
Queen Elizabeth Park, Nat Bailey Stadium and the quieter half of Main Street.
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