Mayor de Blasio signed a bill Aug. 10 naming a street in front of the new Police Academy in Queens for Patrolman Phillip Cardillo, who was killed 43 years ago while answering a false report of a police officer in distress at a Nation of Islam mosque in Harlem and had his funeral boycotted by Mayor John V. Lindsay and Police Commissioner Patrick Murphy.
The renaming of a stretch of 28th Ave. in the College Point section as Ptl. Phillip Cardillo Way was one of 51 such actions contained in a City Council bill passed July 23.
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