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.
[1] He was serving as president of the Hoboken City Council at the time of the death of Mayor Thomas Vezzetti in 1988.
[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.