Boni Avenue is a major east–west thoroughfare in

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, eastern

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. It is a six-lane divided avenue that runs from Aglipay Street to

Epifanio de los Santos Avenue Epifanio de los Santos Avenue, commonly referred to by its acronym EDSA, is a limited-access circumferential highway around Manila, the capital city of the Philippines. It passes through 6 of Metro Manila's 17 local government units or cities, ...

(EDSA). After crossing EDSA via the EDSA-Boni tunnel, the road continues as

Pioneer Street Pioneer Street is the continuation of Boni Avenue east of Epifanio de los Santos Avenue (EDSA) in eastern Metro Manila, Philippines. The street has four lanes for most of its course beginning at the EDSA junction in Barangka Ilaya, Mandaluyong ...

towards

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. The avenue is named after the nickname of Bonifacio Javier, a decorated guerrilla leader during

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and former mayor of Mandaluyong.Some Mandaluyong residents disown ex-mayor Abalos
published by

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; accessed October 31, 2013.

Route description

The avenue commences at the junction with Rev. Aglipay Street in the city's old downtown area (''poblacíon''), where the Cathedral of the Holy Child (Aglipay Church) and San Felipe Neri Church (Roman Catholic Church) are located. It heads southeasterly traversing the ''barangays'' of Old and New Zañiga and San José, and crossing Primo Cruz Street before coming to a large roundabout called Maysilo Circle in Plainview. At this roundabout which houses the Mandaluyong City Hall complex and the Archdiocesan Shrine of the Divine Mercy, Boni intersects with F. Martinez Avenue and San Francisco Street. It curves northeast past Maysilo Circle as it approaches a commercial district at Barangka Drive. East of Barangka, the avenue becomes more commercial with several retail outlets and condominium developments lining this section of Boni where the

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is also situated. The avenue ends at the junction with EDSA, near

Boni station Boni station (also called Boni Avenue station) is a Manila Metro Rail Transit (MRT) station situated on Line 3. It is located in Mandaluyong and is named so due to its proximity to Boni Avenue, which is in turn named after the nickname of Bonif ...

of the Manila MRT-3.

Landmarks

* Archdiocesan Shrine of the Divine Mercy * Club Mwah * Dansalan Gardens * Mandaluyong City Hall * Mandaluyong City Medical Center * Maysilo Circle * New Horizon Hotel Manila *

Robinsons Cybergate Robinsons Cybergate, also known as ''Robinsons Cybergate Complex'' and ''Cybergate City'', is a mixed-use development located along EDSA corner Pioneer Street in Mandaluyong, Metro Manila, Philippines. Owned by Robinsons Land Corporation, the de ...

* San Felipe Neri Catholic Cemetery * San Felipe Neri Church * San Felipe Neri Parochial School * San Francisco Gardens

References

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