The City of Cleveland held a celebration to honor Bone Thugs-N-Harmony Friday. The event kicked off with a street naming ceremony at the intersection of East 99th Street and St. Clair Ave.
In Feb. 2022, fans created a petition to add a sign above East 99th Street that reads, “Bone Thugs-N-Harmony Way.”
“There's nothing here that pays homage to that or to the group Bone Thugs-N-Harmony,” said Felicia C. Haney, owner of Beach Street Publicity.
“When the group Bone Thugs-N-Harmony made it, they not just made it from Cleveland, they made it from this area and gave people from around here hope. They are people from our neighborhood; they are not from the suburbs. They really took Cleveland to the level that they did, and 30 years later, people are still talking about it,” Haney said.
Once the petition was done and signed, it was sent to the Cleveland City Council, where Councilman Kevin Conwell was left shocked by how quickly they got the signatures.
“This is the fastest petition I have seen signed, and I have been on council for 20 years. I’ve done a lot of street dedications, and this is the fastest one I’ve seen here. That’s proof that it’s in the pudding,” said Conwell.
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