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politician who served as the 34th mayor of his native Hoboken, New Jersey, from 1988 to 1993.

Biography

He was born on August 10, 1947, and was reared in Hoboken. He was serving as president of the Hoboken City Council at the time of the death of Mayor

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in 1988. Pasculli was elected by the city council to serve as acting mayor. He resigned his seat on the Council, and was elected to a full term in 1989. He ran for mayor in 1989 on the promise to open the Hoboken waterfront to development. 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. 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

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. 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

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Living people 20th-century mayors of places in New Jersey Mayors of Hoboken, New Jersey 1947 births New Jersey Democrats Educators from New Jersey {{NewJersey-mayor-stub