Patrick Pasculli

Patrick L. Pasculli (born August 10, 1947) is a retired educator and American Democratic Party politician who served as the 34th mayor of his native Hoboken, New Jersey, from 1988 to 1993.

Patrick Pasculli
34th Mayor of Hoboken
In office
1988–1993
Preceded byThomas Vezzetti
Succeeded byAnthony Russo
Personal details
Born (1947-08-10) August 10, 1947
St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
Political partyDemocratic
ResidenceHoboken, New Jersey

Biography

He was born on August 10, 1947 and was reared in Hoboken.[1]

He was serving as president of the Hoboken City Council at the time of the death of Mayor Thomas Vezzetti in 1988. Pasculli was elected by the city council to serve as acting mayor.[2] He resigned his seat on the Council, and was elected to a full term in 1989.[3]

He ran for mayor in 1989 on the promise to open the Hoboken waterfront to development.[1][4] Pasculli's campaign led to the formation of the Coalition for a Better Waterfront which opposed his plan to lease city-owned land to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey for commercial development.[4] In 1992, when General Foods announced the closing of a 600 employee facility, Pasculli noted that the departure left the city with little business on the property immortalized in On the Waterfront.[5]

In 1990 he proclaimed that Hoboken's Elysian Fields was the site of the first game of baseball on June 19, 1846, dismissing the claim by Cooperstown, New York.[6][7]

References
  1. DePalma, Anthony (May 5, 1989). "Parks vs. Development: Battle for Hoboken's Salty Soul". The New York Times. Retrieved 2009-09-01. Leading the other side is Mayor Pat Pasculli, Hoboken born and raised, who believes the city should follow other Hudson River communities and develop the vacant piers into housing, offices and marina slips, with scattered pieces of parkland.
  2. "Some 'ego' or another will make it a race". The Jersey Journal. 2009-08-15. Retrieved 2009-09-01.
  3. Sullivan, Joseph (1989-05-10). "McCann Leads Jersey City Voting But Cunningham Forces a Runoff". The New York Times. Retrieved 2009-09-01.
  4. Romano, Jay (1992-03-29). "How a 'Bunch of Amateurs' Learned to Fight City Hall". The New York Times. Retrieved 2009-09-01. The grass-roots movement began in 1989 when Patrick Pasculli ran for Mayor on a platform that included a plan to lease city-owned waterfront land to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey for development. ...
  5. "Maxwell House plant grinding its last drop". Gainesville Sun. Associated Press. 1992-03-22. Retrieved 2015-02-18.
  6. "Cooperstown challenged as birthplace of baseball". Lawrence Journal-World. Associated Press. 1990-01-11. pp. 2A. Retrieved 2015-02-18.
  7. "Who's on first (so to speak)?". Boca Raton News. USA Weekend. 1990-08-05. p. 6. Retrieved 2015-02-18.


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