{"id":259125,"date":"2026-06-08T12:53:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T12:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/259125\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T12:53:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T12:53:22","slug":"jordan-yulfo-memorial-how-staten-island-honored-a-beloved-young-motorcyclist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/259125\/","title":{"rendered":"Jordan Yulfo memorial: How Staten Island honored a beloved young motorcyclist"},"content":{"rendered":"

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 Jordan Yulfo was always the life of the party. <\/p>\n

\u201cHis energy, laughing, making people laugh; just not caring what people thought,\u201d said his older brother Justin Doyle. \u201cHe was just always himself, you know? I mean, never put on a persona for anything.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yulfo, 22, of Eltingville, died Tuesday morning in a motorcycle crash on Arthur Kill Road in Great Kills. His brother said Yulfo, a Tottenville High School graduate, was headed to work on a route he had taken dozens of times. <\/p>\n

Police said the crash occurred at approximately 4:40 a.m., when Yulfo\u2019s Harley-Davidson collided with a 2017 Ford Fusion <\/a>making a left turn from Arthur Kill Road onto Armstrong Avenue. The driver of the other vehicle, a 54-year-old man, remained at the scene, police said.<\/p>\n

Beloved uncle, skilled welder<\/p>\n

Doyle said his brother loved spending time with his nieces and nephews and would frequently ride out to his home in Pennsylvania to see them. <\/p>\n

\u201cI was just looking at pictures, actually…he was always having them on the bikes in front of the house and stuff like that, just always dancing and laughing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yulfo worked as a welder after graduating from Lincoln Technical Institute in New Jersey. He pursued the trade after a friend who had encouraged him to enter the profession died, according to his family.<\/p>\n

\"MotorcyclistJordan Yulfo, left, poses with his brother, Justin Doyle. Courtesy of Justin Doyle<\/p>\n

\u201cHe got really into it when his friend Joey passed away,\u201d recalled Doyle, who is a firefighter in Allentown, Pennsylvania. \u201cJordan went to school for that, and finished it and everything. It\u2019s cool.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2018He loved bikes\u2019<\/p>\n

Family and friends said Yulfo had a love for motorcycles that traced back to middle school, when he would ride pedal bikes with friends around Staten Island. But it was more than just a hobby. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt was like his second life, you know?\u201d said his friend Dan, who asked that his last name not be published. \u201cHe loved bikes, that\u2019s what he loved to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

Doyle agreed, saying his brother was happiest when he was riding his motorcycle. \u201cHe just loved it, that was like his free zone. He loved riding.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"MotorcyclistJordan Yulfo, left, with his mother and brother, Justin Doyle. Courtesy of Justin DoyleCommunity in mourning<\/p>\n

Yulfo\u2019s family described him as a social person who was never short on friends. <\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019d come out here (Pennsylvania) and go cruising, come back with 50 new friends,\u201d said Doyle. \u201cAnywhere he went, he would just make friends and literally leave such an impression, he was just a genuine person.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Tuesday afternoon, a makeshift memorial <\/a>was set up at the corner of Arthur Kill Road and Armstrong Avenue, where friends and acquaintances paid their respects. <\/p>\n

On Tuesday night, a candlelight memorial for Yulfo<\/a> was also held at a relative\u2019s home. Videos shared by attendees showed burnouts and loud engine revs as a final salute from the biker community.<\/p>\n

\"MotorcyclistFriends and family of Yulfo gathered Tuesday night to honor his memory with burnouts, loud revs and acts of generosity for the deceased’s family. Courtesy of Justin Doyle<\/p>\n

Doyle said a group of Yulfo\u2019s friends also gathered at the family\u2019s home in Eltingville. They sat on blankets in the street and helped family with overdue chores on the property. <\/p>\n

\u201cMy brother used to always tell my mom to record him from the window, and she couldn\u2019t anymore, because a tree grew there, and you couldn\u2019t really see, because the branches and everything…Yesterday people had blankets in the street, just sitting down,\u201d said Doyle. \u201cHis one friend had a chainsaw, and they\u2019re cutting the tree down, they\u2019re dragging the branches to the backyard, they\u2019re just cleaning up in front of the house, I know it\u2019s helping out my mom a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n

A GoFundMe page created in Yulfo\u2019s memory says it aims to help the family with funeral costs and a memorial service. It reads in part:<\/p>\n

\u201cHe (Yulfo) was the friendliest person around and everybody he knew loved him … truly a one of a kind person. May he rest in peace.\u201d<\/p>\n

The fundraiser can be found at gofundme.com\/f\/help-honor-jordans-memory-2ytjw<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 Jordan Yulfo was always the life of the party. \u201cHis energy, laughing, making people…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-259125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}