A newly promoted Big Apple detective — who has the same job as his 9/11 hero dad — will now wear his father’s identical shield number, decades after it was retired.
Joe Vigiano, 32, of the NYPD’s elite Emergency Service Unit, sported shield number 4511 at a promotions ceremony Friday — years after his father, Joseph Vigiano, died wearing it while rescuing those trapped in the World Trade Center.
“Now I have the privilege of wearing my dad’s shield number,” a beaming Joe Vigiano told The Post.
Vigiano was 8 years old when his father, a detective with ESU’s Truck 2 on Sept. 11, 2001, never returned home…