STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Police Officer Anthony Cantore delayed the start of his NYPD career for a reason few recruits ever face: to save his father’s life.
In December 2023, Cantore donated one of his kidneys to his father, Thomas Cantore, a retired NYPD lieutenant who had spent two years on dialysis while awaiting a transplant.
Nearly two years later, Cantore, 26, of Great Kills, joined 970 fellow graduates from the New York Police Department Academy on Monday for a ceremony at Madison Square Garden — continuing a three-generation family legacy in the department…