The five boys who went on to become one of the greatest R&B groups of our time, New Edition, will be celebrated and acknowledged in their hometown of Boston on Aug. 30.
The city of Boston has announced that in celebration of the group that consists of Ralph Tresvant, Bobby Brown, Mike Bivins, Ronnie DeVoe, and Ricky Bell (Johnny Gill is also a member, but isn’t from Boston and joined the group after Brown left for a solo career in 1988), on the group’s 42nd anniversary, will have a street renaming ceremony in the Roxbury community where they grew up.
The street on the corner of Ambrose & Albany Streets will be renamed “New Edition Way.”…