The family of a slain NYPD officer is fighting to keep the thug convicted of pushing him to his death from a New York City rooftop behind bars, The Post has learned. 

Repeat offender Eddie Matos, who’s in prison for murdering Midtown South Officer Anthony Dwyer in 1989, is up for his fifth parole hearing in three years, according to the slain officer’s family and the Police Benevolent Association. 

Dwyer’s sister, Maureen Brissett, was expecting her brother’s killer’s next hearing to happen in February –- until she got a call last week informing her that a new hearing was scheduled for Nov. 6. 

The Parole Board denied Matos’ bid to get out of jail after an October 2025 appearance, citing Dwyer’s killing “together with your sustained pattern of serious institutional misconduct, including violent and weapons-related infractions” in prison.

The decision also cited “multiple convictions in Connecticut for burglary, larceny and theft of a firearm” prior to the burglary and cop killing in Times Square, the records show.

Matos, who’s serving 25 years to life at the maximum-security Green Haven Correctional Facility in Dutchess County, was granted this month’s do-over with the pro bono help of lawyer Isaac Zaur, a partner at the Madison Avenue law firm Clarick Gueron Reisbaum. 

The new hearing was ordered by the Dutchess County Supreme Court after Zaur argued that the board had “relied on an impermissible mischaracterization” of Matos’ record in prison, according to court paperwork.

In appealing for a new hearing, the lawyer argued that Matos hasn’t received any disciplinary reports since 2019 and that his only two tickets since 2013 were for “talking in the hallway,” court paperwork shows.

Zaur didn’t respond to messages seeking comment.

“I just feel like, they’re doing this just for him to keep getting more chances and thinking that, my family’s gonna just say, ‘That’s enough,’” Brissett said the day before the hearing in Midtown. “But he’s sadly mistaken because that’s not ever going to happen.”

Brissett, who was 11 when her brother was killed, attended the hearing with her brother, her 18-year-old son and her 16-year-old daughter. Her 85-year-old mother, who has lung cancer, was unable to make it.

Victims’ families can read their impact statements at the hearings but cannot communicate directly with the inmate.

Inmates get hearings every two years but “de novo” hearings can be ordered by courts when the board’s decisions are appealed.

Forty-three cop killers statewide have been released since 2017, thanks to new rules that allowed the left-leaning state Parole Board to put less weight on the crime committed and more on an inmate’s prison record, the PBA said. The board’s members were mostly appointed by then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

“The Parole Board has done the right thing by denying this cop-killer’s parole again and again, but his lawyer keeps trying to game the system,” PBA President Patrick Hendry told The Post this week.

Dwyer, 23, and two other cops responded to a call about an armed robbery at a McDonald’s on Seventh Avenue and West 40th Street in Times Square on Oct. 17, 1989, and saw Matos fleeing.

Dwyer chased Matos to the roof.

“As soon as my brother got up there, Matos was waiting and kicked him down an air shaft and then escaped,” Brisett said. The police officers who reached Dwyer first said the dying cop told them Matos pushed him.  

Dwyer plunged 40 feet and later died at Bellevue Hospital.

Matos, 58, was sentenced in 1990 to 25 years to life for second-degree murder and has been denied parole more than a dozen times.

“The Dwyer family can’t run to court to get a second chance to see Anthony,” Hendry said. “There is absolutely no reason his killer should be given endless do-overs in his quest to get out of jail. This cop-killer and his supporters are clearly trying to grind this hero family down until they give up, but we are not going to allow that to happen.”

A parole board decision could take weeks or more. If Matos loses again, he is due for another regular hearing in February, the PBA and family said.

Brissett and her mother want to see Matos behind bars for the rest of his life.

“He has many years ahead of him to live — when my brother died at 23 years old,” the grieving sister said. “I watched my parents. They had three other children, but they were always missing something.”