Bonny Serrano Avenue 2.72

Colonel Bonny Serrano Avenue, commonly known simply as Bonny Serrano Avenue, is a major east-west thoroughfare in the Eastern Manila District of Metro Manila, Philippines, running between San Juan City and Quezon City. It forms the northern limit of San Juan and the southern limit of Quezon City's New Manila and Cubao districts and links the Philippine National Police headquarters in Camp Crame with the Armed Forces of the Philippines headquarters in Camp Aguinaldo. The avenue, formerly called Santolan Road, runs from the border between Greenhills, San Juan and Horseshoe Village, Quezon City in the west to the villages of Libis and Blue Ridge by Quezon City's border with Marikina in the east. It was named after the decorated Korean War hero, Venancio "Bonny" Serrano.HistoryBonny Serrano Avenue was formerly called the Carretera de Santolan which ran from the Santolan pumping station on the Mariquina River to El Deposito water reservoir in San Juan del Monte, the main source of water for Manila residents during the Spanish colonial period. It was built around 1901 during the early years of the American colonial period at a cost of $150 . In 1935, the road, also known as the San Juan–Santolan Road, became the location of Camp Murphy, home of the United States Army Philippine Department, and eventually the Philippine Commonwealth Army, which was named after then Governor-General Frank Murphy. The military camp eventually became Camp Aguinaldo and Camp Crame when the Philippines gained independence after World War II. The San Juan–Quezon City segment of Santolan Road was then renamed after Colonel Bonny Merioles Serrano in 1970, three months after the war hero's death.