French NYC residents fight for city to have a ‘Little Paris’ downtown (Italy: credit, restaurants)
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I have the feeling there are many French people in NYC in general, but maybe I am just over evaluating the number.
Many if them works in the French banks or the finance industry in general.
Just saying that because I am French in FiDi.
I would think either parts of North Williamsburg or parts of Boerum Hill / Carroll Gardens would make more sense since that's where I hear more continental French speakers (France French, French Belgian, and Swiss French).
I have the feeling there are many French people in NYC in general, but maybe I am just over evaluating the number.
Many if them works in the French banks or the finance industry in general.
Just saying that because I am French in FiDi.
Sanofi pharma’s US HQ is in Bridgewater NJ. Even though it’s around ~50 miles from NYC there are a bunch of French employees that live in Manhattan and take a bus from port authority or van pool out. A woman I worked with eventually became naturalized.
The most relevant could've been Smith Street.
What I find really corny about their request though, is that there is no French enclave in NYC. Most of them live in the City and Brooklyn, but they are scattered across NYC and even NJ and Westchester and there is no history of French people moving en masse to such and such neighborhood anywhere in the US.
I am very familiar with this type of French people calling themselves "expats" similar to those requesting a Little Paris, they are usually Upper-Middle-Class people back in Europe, and are looking for some type of "legitimacy" in the city's fabric. A spoiled child whim if you will. They are part of the Parisian bourgeoisie and forgot that France is much more than the rich and fancy neighborhoods of Paris.
Last edited by Robert.Dinero; 06-29-2021 at 04:52 PM..
Not in any sizeable community. The stereotype of French in NYC is that they are very wealthy and live in the UES or Park Avenue in doorman buildings. Note this is NOT the same as French speakers of which there are many - mostly African or Haitian - living in Brooklyn or Bronx.
It is a stereotype, many French people live with 5 roommates and work in the restaurant industry amongst other things.
there's like 75K French in NYC and who knows how many French Canadian and Hatians
If they are Canadians or Haitians they are not French. The French are the people who, regardless of ethnic and religious background were either born and raised in France or, have French citizenship.
Maybe you meant 75K French speaking people but that's much more than that.
Back in 2003 there was 300,000 French immigrants in NY State itself.
Last edited by Robert.Dinero; 06-29-2021 at 04:53 PM..
I dunno. I mean if I wanted to find French people I would drive 6 hours north to Montreal and find an entire city full of them.
And you would drive 6 hours to find.... Canadians, who speak an outdated Americanized version of French with an accent that makes your average French speaker sometimes not even understand what they're saying, and sounds pretty comical.
It is equivalent to saying that you find English people in the US. So when people from Montreal want to find English people they drive to NYC?
Not in any sizeable community. The stereotype of French in NYC is that they are very wealthy and live in the UES or Park Avenue in doorman buildings. Note this is NOT the same as French speakers of which there are many - mostly African or Haitian - living in Brooklyn or Bronx.
There is a sizable French community in Brooklyn actually in Boerum Hill, Cobble Hill and Carroll Gardens. There's a French school there ror the little ones. Outside of that, yes, the Upper East Side, and outside of that, Larchmont in Westchester. Larchmont is very French considering that they are not really concentrated in one area. Roughly 10% of the population is French/French ex-pats. There is a school there too as well I believe. They are also present in other affluent areas of Westchester. Rye, Mamaroneck are other examples.
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