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Services Set For Beloved Hoboken Business Owner
Services have been scheduled for a beloved Hoboken business owner who died on Sunday.
HOBOKEN, NJ — Beloved Hoboken baker and business owner Cosmo Sancilio, 70, died this past Sunday. Services have been scheduled for next week. READ MORE: Well-Known Hoboken Bakery Owner Passes Away
For many years, Sancilio owned Cosmo's Bakery at 916 Washington St., the current site of Rosticeria da Gigi.
According to his obituary, Sancilio was born in Molfetta, Italy in 1954 and moved to Hoboken with his parents in 1962. He would have turned 71 on April 26.
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Sancilio owned both Cosmo’s Bakery in Hoboken and Shaler Bakery in Ridgefield Park.
Services will be held this coming Monday and Tuesday. Read the obituary here.
Find out what's happening in Hobokenfor free with the latest updates from Patch.
"On behalf of the city, I offer my deepest condolences to the family and friends of Cosmo Sancilio," said Mayor Ravi Bhalla on Monday. "Cosmo served our community with unwavering dedication through his work in Senior Services. His warmth and generosity of mind and spirit was infectious."
Among Cosmo's loyalists was Hoboken author Mark Leyner, who wrote a humor piece in the New Yorker in 1994 about brand placement. Read the piece by Mark Leyner, "Eat At Cosmo's."
Read Patch's prior story about Sancilio here.
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