Ray Lewis Way Unveiled On North Avenue

Four days before his 35th birthday, Ray Lewis was honored by the city of Baltimore with the naming a section of North Avenue "Ray Lewis Way #52."

"If Ray Lewis Way does nothing else, just look up, instead of looking down," Lewis said with teary eyes. "Looking up in life, and say, 'He did it differently.' ... Let that be the goal."

Ravens coach John Harbaugh, Baltimore mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and city council president Bernard "Jack" Young were among those in attendance for the unveiling.

"All of these people with all this love and affection, that's the same love I look at y'all with, because I lean on you the same way you lean on me," Lewis told the crowd, which included numerous students from nearby Harford Heights Elementary School. "Anytime I strap on my cleats, every man knows I give everything I got. When I walk in these streets, I hurt at night. I don't turn on the TV for the news, because I pray so hard when brothers are taking brothers' lives."

Ray Lewis Way, at the corner of North and Broadway, is just steps from the DIAKON Center, where the 11-time Pro Bowler and his charitable Ray Lewis Foundation host an annual Thanksgiving distribution for Baltimore families in need.

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