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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.
- ↑ "Some 'ego' or another will make it a race". The Jersey Journal . 2009-08-15. Retrieved 2009-09-01.
- ↑ Sullivan, Joseph (1989-05-10). "McCann Leads Jersey City Voting But Cunningham Forces a Runoff". The New York Times . Retrieved 2009-09-01.
- 1 2 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. ...
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- ↑ "Cooperstown challenged as birthplace of baseball". Lawrence Journal-World. Associated Press. 1990-01-11. pp. 2A. Retrieved 2015-02-18.
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