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246: 254: 284:, testing and treatment center. Just across EDSA from the Pinagkaisahan park is Nepa Q-Mart, also known as Mega Q-Mart, one of the largest wholesale flea markets in Metro Manila. Also located in the vicinity is the Bernardo Park Compound, a slum area which in 2007 sheltered 100 families. Many of these informal settlers work as vendors in Nepa Q-Mart. There are also informal settlements along the Meralco-Botocan power line and K-6th Street in the Kamuning side, and along Ermin Garcia and Maryland Streets in Pinagkaisahan, including some in the riverbanks and under the EDSA bridge. 701: 119: 265:(EDSA) between Ermin Garcia Street in Pinagkaisahan in the south and K-3rd Street in Kamuning in the north. The larger portion of the park is on the north bank in Kamuning where it is surrounded by a few government buildings such as the Kamuning Police Station 10 of the Quezon City Police District, a training center of the 179: (equivalent to ₱2,350,884 in 2021) for the project. It was carved out of a hill along the Diliman Creek, also known as Lagarian Creek, at the border of Diliman and Cubao districts. The plan includes building a skating rink, an artificial lagoon, a zoo, and other features that would rival 229:
in Diliman in 1972, the library became the QC Library and Information Center Cubao Branch. Several facilities were added to the park over the years, including the public swimming pool which opened in 1990 and placed under the management of the Quezon City Youth and Sports Development Office.
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laid the cornerstone of the Aurora Quezon Memorial Hall in the park with Zenaida Quezon-Buencamino, Manuel Quezon Jr. and Josefina M. Bernardo, the wife of Mayor Ponciano Bernardo, as guests of honor. It was dedicated in memory of former First Lady
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During the 1950s until mid-1960s, radio and television broadcast were aired live from the park. It was also often used as a filming location by local movie outfit
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which was then being built on the south bank of the creek. The park, designed by Luciano V. Aquino, the same architect who designed the
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In 1968, the Quezon City Main Public Library moved from its old location at the original Quezon City Hall building on EDSA and
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The park's southern side in Pinagkaisahan contains a picnic area and the Ponciano Bernardo monument. It is bordered by the
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unveiled the Ponciano Bernardo Monument and Marker to honor and recognize the former mayor's contributions to the city.
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who, along with Mayor Ponciano Bernardo and several others, were killed two months earlier in an ambush in
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which replaced the old city hall, and the Klinika Bernardo and Social Hygiene Clinic, a publicly funded
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The northern side also contains a skating and biking area, as well as a children's playground.
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of Pinagkaisahan and the largest park in the barangay of Kamuning. It was named after
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A footbridge connects both sides of the park over the Diliman (Lagarian) Creek
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The park was developed by the Quezon City government during the tenure of
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is an urban community park located on both banks of the Diliman Creek in
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in Cubao to the building at the Kamuning side of the park donated by
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Quezon City Parks Development and Administration Department
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Las Piñas–Parañaque Critical Habitat and Ecotourism Area
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Technical Education and Skills Development Authority
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The southern side of Bernardo Park in Pinagkaisahan
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14°37′43″N 121°2′45″E / 14.62861°N 121.04583°E / 14.62861; 121.04583
Quezon City
Philippines
Bus interchange
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Quezon City
Metro Manila
barangay
Ponciano Bernardo
Manuel L. Quezon
Ponciano Bernardo

Rizal Park
Quezon City Hall
Welcome Rotonda
Elpidio Quirino
Aurora Quezon
Nueva Ecija
Sampaguita Pictures
Aurora Boulevard
Lions Clubs International
Elliptical Road
Herbert Bautista


Epifanio de los Santos Avenue
Technical Education and Skills Development Authority
Feliciano Belmonte Jr.
Ramon Magsaysay (Cubao) High School
HIV prevention

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