RIDES CALENDAR

ALL RIDE & MEETING EVENTS ARE POSTED HERE:
http://www.localendar.com/public/BlueKnightsNYX

ALL RIDES are Kick Stands Up (KSU) from the Embassy Diner, 4280 Hempstead Turnpike, Bethpage 11714, at 10:30AM unless otherwise noted on our calendar.

The "Final" Annual Phillip Cardillo Memorial Ride

On Sunday April 19, 2015 the Blue Knights New York Chapter X, the premier Law Enforcement Motorcycle Club of Nassau County, held its 10th and last annual motorcycle ride in memory of Patrolman Philip Cardillo 28PCT who was shot and killed in a Harlem Mosque on April 14, 1972 after responding to a 10-13 assist Patrolman call to this location. To this day no one has been convicted of his murder.

2015 marked the 43rd anniversary of this tragic event. As a result of our decade of raising

awareness of the travesty & lack of justice through the BKNYX annual rides, which annually attracted over 400 law enforcement personnel on motorcycles, we finally were successful in having the street in front of the new Police Academy named in his honor, pictured below.

FIDELIS AD MORTEM ~ May he Rest In Eternal Peace ~ RIP

Scroll down to read the Ride History
Click here for our photo album remembrance of Patrolman Phillip Cardillo. 
https://blueknightsnyx.smugmug.com/Patrolman-Phillip-Cardillo-Way (opens in new window)

Also named in Phil's honor is a K9 & a police boat, pictured below.

RIDE HISTORY
The route started from the BKNYX Chapter starting point at the Embassy Diner located on Hempstead Turnpike, just west of the Seaford Oyster Bay Expressway in Bethpage at 10AM, with the assistance of the Nassau County Police Department and the NYS Troopers, and proceeded south on the Seaford Oyster Bay Expressway to West on the Southern State Parkway.

Stopping briefly at the NYS Trooper Barracks in Valley Stream to pick up additional riders and an NYPD Highway escort we departed from there at about 10:30AM and proceeded North on the Cross Island Pkwy to the West Bound L.I.E. exiting at Greenpoint Ave with additional riders joining us on Greenpoint Ave & Gale Ave which is the entrance to Calvary Cemetery. Arriving at the cemetery at about 11:30am hundreds of riders proceeded to Patrolman Phillip Cardillo's Grave for the laying of a wreath, pictured below.

At around noon, the ride departed the cemetery and proceeded on Greenpoint Ave to the West Bound L.I.E, exiting at Van Dam Street proceeding on the lower roadway of the Queensborough Bridge.  Once in Manhattan the ride entered the North bound FDR from 62nd Street and exited at 96th Street, proceeding North on 3rd Avenue making a left on 116th Street past the Harlem Mosque and then North on 8th Avenue to the 28PCT from where the ride ended.

We're grateful for Phil's service & to all those that hold his memory close to their hearts! May his family find comfort & joy in his memory & may he RIP! FIDELIS AD MORTEM

John Malandrino
Blue Knights NY X
Former NYPD Hwy #3

Click here for a 2013 Photo Album (opens in a new window)

For more information about Patrolman Phillip Cardillo please click here:
http://policeny.com/pchmptlmog16jglnk.html  (opens in a new window)