The Big Apple is about to get a big ol’ “Hey, y’all” from cop-loving Texas kid Savannah Solis.
The bright-eyed 10-year-old from Tyler, Tex. — who warmed cops’ hearts by mailing the NYPD 200 handmade thank you cards during one of the darkest periods in the department’s history — is flying into New York on Monday to be honored by the cops she touched with her missives, the Daily News has learned.
“I’m bringing all of my cards and I got some chocolates for the cops,” Savannah told The News on Sunday. “I’m super-excited. I don’t think I’m going to get any sleep tonight.”
Her father, Scott Solis, said the giddy fourth-grader has been planning the trip for a week.
“Savannah’s been packing since last Monday, that’ll tell you how excited she is about this visit,” Solis, 36, said. “She’s really anxious to get there and meet everybody in the NYPD.”
After a madman shot and killed Police Officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos in Brooklyn on Dec. 20, Savannah went about creating the personalized thank you notes to city cops.
“I just want to say thank you for taking care of us every day,” she wrote in one card sent to the NYPD on Jan. 8. “You are my hero and you’re brave too! Keep watching out for us.”
The cards helped boost morale at the 41st Precinct stationhouse in Longwood, the Bronx, where Police Officer Victor Cabral received the cards. A cousin of Cabral’s wife knows the Solis family, so Cabral acted as the go-between.
“We’re going to present her with a few awards,” Cabral said. “It’s a little something … just to say thank you for what she did for us.”
The girl’s itinerary includes visits on Tuesday to the 41st Precinct and the 84th Precinct in Brooklyn Heights, where Liu and Ramos were assigned. Organizers are also trying to set up a time for Savannah to meet Ramos’ and Liu’s widows.
Savannah, who dreams of becoming a K-9 cop, will get tours of the NYPD K-9 unit, the National September 11 Memorial and Museum and 1 Police Plaza, where she could have an audience with Police Commissioner Bill Bratton, organizers said.
Savannah said she didn’t know how to cope with the deaths of Ramos and Liu when she heard about it on the news.
“I was crying a lot,” she told the Daily News last month.
That’s when she thought of making thank you cards.
“It took me four weeks,” she said. “There was paint everywhere! It made me feel better to let them know how I felt about them.”
JetBlue agreed to fly Savannah and her parents into New York free. They also getting a free room at the Westin New York at Times Square, organizers said.
For her part, Savannah is ready expressing her appreciation — with thank you cards.
“She’s working on more cards right now,” said Solis.