file photo by Boyd Loving
Ridgewood Village Voices: Albert Pucciarelli
DECEMBER 12, 2014 LAST UPDATED: FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2014, 12:31 AM
THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS
Name: Albert J. Pucciarelli
Occupation and/or volunteer position: Partner, McElroy, Deutsch Mulvaney & Carpenter, LLP; chair of the firm’s hotels and resorts and aviation law practice groups; member of the Board of Directors, Skytop Lodge Corporation; member of the Board of Directors, Hospitality Industry Bar Association; President, Mid-Atlantic Pilots Association; Deputy Mayor and Councilman, Village of Ridgewood.
How long I have lived in Ridgewood: 35 years (since October 1979)
Interests and hobbies: Flying my airplane – I am a commercial, instrument-rated pilot; visiting museums and restaurants in NYC; admiring the architecture there, new and old; watching the great series available on TV and tablets, such as Mad Men, Downton Abbey and Breaking Bad.
My favorite place to relax in Ridgewood: In a cell-phone/iPad-free meditation room that I added to my home for just that purpose.
A “perfect day” in Ridgewood would include: Gym, then Mens’ Fellowship discussion at Christ Episcopal Church, work in my yard, lunch with my grandchildren in town, afternoon swimming with my children and their children in our pool; dinner at La Lanterna with special friends and good wine.
https://www.northjersey.com/community-news/albert-pucciarelli-coming-in-for-a-landing-1.1152126
Shows what a truly sensitive caring religious intelligent respectful person he is. In the spirt of civility I recant everything bad I said about him and from this time forward I will try to model my life and deeds to mirror his. He is an inspiration.
You hate this guy so much I am surprised you put this article on your blog.
Oh wait I get it, you waiting for your lemmings to post snarky comments here now. Now it all makes sense.
al I like the room, village hall needs that, but for working in the yard, do you still have bamboo ???????
Amazing must be the Christmas spirit.
A bon vivant with true joie ‘de vivre. Good for barbecue.
So Albert, why can’t you turn your cell phone and ipad off at Village Council meetings???? I thought you absolutely had to be reachable at all times by your family?????
Looks like the picture in the Ridgewood News was taken quite some time ago. Hmmmm….so the paper was not over anxious to put this piece in print as fast as they could? Wonder why.
Perhaps ” the many Mr. Anonymous posters will get their story in the Ridgewood News “. Who will be next ??
PS with a good photo.
mr bamboo.
My motto: Honor all people.
Seriously Mr. Pucciarelli??? What about the long list of people you have belittled and screamed at, whose faces you have shoved your finger at, about whom you have made snarky sarcastic comments? Is this how you honor all people?
Funny way of looking at it. There is equal opportunity here to say what a great guy he is. I don’t know the man outside of his history of lack of civility on the Council so I’ll leave the compliments to those that do.
Lets remember to be civil to Albert. After read the article I cleaned out the spare bedroom went out to Home depot and picked up some soothing paint for my new meditation room. Next some incense. I have also taken the picture of Albert an enlarged it and will put it in a prominent place in the new room.
He is such an inspiration.
Is it you Albert, or jus a brilliant disguise?
Most proud of his children because they reflect well on him. It is all about him.
Dom have you ever had an article like this done about you? You are such a fixture here in town and I mean that in a good way. you are such a compassionate, well educated and kind man. I can tell by your post here that you really don’t have a bad word to say about anyone.
#13 Time will show that Albert and more importantly this Council will leave out town with a wonderful legacy . How can you say anything disparaging against this wonderful man? Let try to be civil.
I just overheard a young woman commenting on this story. She said something to the effect that she has been search for just that type of man but there not to many like Abert out there.
Tell that young woman that he is not the man who is self-described in the article.
However, one would have to agree that there are not too many like him out there.
Thank goodness.
Yeah, right, a legacy will be left by them.
yes al you are right on with( family first). you need to tell all the managers in the village that. because they think that the work force should put ridgewood first. at times they can not.
that about being cold blood , thats why the dam sprit is so low in town. it’s shit like that put’s people in a pissed off mood.
Lets keep it civil #19. If you are that angry you should follow Alberts lead and try meditation . Im sure Albert is aware of low sprit of the employees in town and will address it as soon as he can.
civil u say , o k I will try to meditation .
Chanting helps too.
The interview questions must have been answered on a day when his meds were high-hallucinogens
He will address it as soon as he emerges from his padded cell, oops I mean his meditation room.
I don’t know the man, but from the comments here, I’d have to wonder why would anyone bother to get into public service and have everyone make negative online comments about them.
#24 – You are correct, you do not know the man. Do you read about anyone commenting negatively about Councilwoman Knudsen? NO. About Councilman Sedon? NO. “Everyone” does not make negative comments about “anyone” who goes into public service. Far from it. But this man, well, he is another story altogether.
The Deputy Mayor deserves all he gets, and then some. He is the most arrogant, disrespectful, nasty elected official you can possibly imagine. He despises anyone who questions anything he says. The public is supposed to just bow their heads and praise him, in his opinion.
You are wrong to make such a general conclusion about the public based solely on comments about the deputy mayor.
It just dawned on me, you never see Albert and Superman in a photograph together. Hmmm?
#26, you are astute! The commenter was assuming too much in the process of leveling the particular criticism. It does no good to engage such people on their terms, which are usually craftily worded to put an honest but inexperienced interlocutor back on his heels. The old “move from the specific to the general” trick. We see what you did there, #25! No dice, though. Too bad!
Just another article about someone on an ego trip that we are supposed to be interested in. Hardly.
I always read that column and enjoy learning what fellow residents do in town and what they enjoy.
But this self-serving egotistical rambling from a man who clearly just wanted to promote a totally false autobiography was hilarious and infuriating, both extremes. It was complete and total BS. Fiction. That meditation room must be piping in a fine mist of LSD.