10th Avenue, formerly known as Macario Asistio Sr. Avenue or simply Asistio Avenue, is an undivided four-lane street in

Caloocan Caloocan, officially the City of Caloocan (; ), is a highly urbanized city in Metro Manila, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 1,661,584 people making it the fourth-most populous city in the Philippines. Caloo ...

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, Philippines that stretches east–west, bisecting south Caloocan. Like most avenues in the Grace Park area, it crosses a grid system of numbered streets that run from north to south, with other numbered avenues running from east to west. 10th Avenue was formally renamed "Asistio Avenue" before the reversion of its current name, owing to it being the tenth avenue running east–west from the city's border with

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in the south. The former renaming was done in 1984 to honor the former

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, who served from 1962 to 1971, and the father of another Caloocan mayor,

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, but has since been disregarded and reverted. 10th Avenue and the present-day Grace Park district, through which it travels, was a pre–

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civilian airfield known as the Manila North Airfield or Grace Park. This airfield, which opened in 1935 near the then-newly built

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, was Manila's first commercial airport that served as a hub for

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for its first domestic routes. The airport was decommissioned after the war and was transformed by the government into a residential and industrial area.

Route description

10th Avenue is a national road classified by the

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as a tertiary road. The road runs for from its western terminus at the intersection of A. Mabini Street in Poblacion to its eastern terminus at Kamantigue Street in Barrio Galino, close to A. Bonifacio Avenue at the city's border with Barangays

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and Pag-Ibig sa Nayon in

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. The avenue is divided into two segments by

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, which also serves as the dividing line between Grace Park West and Grace Park East. At its western segment, 10th Avenue begins at the intersection of A. Mabini Street in Poblacion, the old city center of Caloocan. It crosses the

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tracks, the 10th Avenue railway station, and the elevated

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in Barangay 64. It curves slightly to the north before the intersection with Vibora Street and straightens out as it crosses several streets towards Rizal Avenue. Landmarks along this segment include

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Caloocan, the Caloocan Public Library, Caloocan High School and Caloocan City Science High School. East of Rizal Avenue, it runs in an almost perfectly straight line to its other terminus in Grace Park East. Located along this segment is the Caloocan campus of

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. The New Caloocan City Hall is accessible via 8th (A. de Jesus) and 9th Streets, a full block south of 10th Avenue. At its west end, the avenue continues as Padre Burgos Street through Caloocan's

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and Dagat-Dagatan districts, providing access to the Caloocan Judicial Complex, Caloocan Poblacion Market, Caloocan Central Elementary School, and the

Caloocan Cathedral San Roque Cathedral Parish, commonly known as Caloocan Cathedral, is the cathedral or seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kalookan, located near the intersection of 10th Avenue and A. Mabini Street in Poblacion, Caloocan, Metro Manila, Phili ...

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