New
Jersey Needs French
AATF FRENCH ADVOCACY FACT
PACK FOR NEW JERSEY
FRANCOPHONE CONSULAR ADDRESSES
Closest Belgian Consular
Representatives:
Mrs. Renilde LOECKX-DROZDIAK, Consul General
Mrs. Véronique SIKLOSI, Deputy Consul General
1065 Avenue of the Americas, 22nd floor
New York, NY 10018
Phone (212) 586-5110, Fax (212) 582-9657
Visa Phone: (212) 586-7472
Website: http://www.diplomatie.be/newyork
E-mail: NewYork@diplobel.org
Closest Canadian Consular
Representatives:
Philadelphia Consulate
http://geo.international.gc.ca/can%2Dam/philadelphia/
Consulate of Canada
1650 Market Street
36th Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19103
Tel: (267) 207-2721
Fax: (267) 207-2722
Québec Government Office in New York
http://www.mri.gouv.qc.ca/usa/en/new_york/qui_sommes_nous/index.asp
One Rockefeller Plaza, Suite 2600
New York, NY 10020-2102
U.S.A.
Phone: (212) 397-0200
(212) 843-0950
Fax: (212) 757-4753
(212) 376-8984
Email: qc.newyork@mri.gouv.qc.ca
Closest French Consular
Representatives:
Consulat Général de France à New York
http://www.consulfrance-newyork.org/
934 Fifth Avenue,
New York, NY 10021
Tel. (212) 606 3600
Fax. (212)606 3620
Isabelle Darnis-Wilhelm
Consul honoraire de France a Princeton
604 Princeton-Kingston Road
Princeton, NJ 08540
Tél: (609) 430-9109
Fax: (609) 430-1690
E-mail: IsabelleDWilhelm@aol.com
(only by appointment)
New Jersey Media with some French
Content
Television
Pomona, NJ
R.S.Col. / 200 000 - France Feelings,
Canapé/Educational TV
Toms River, NJ
Ocean Cty College / 30 000 - France Feelings,
Canapé
New York French Media
http://www.consulfrance-newyork.org/article.php3?id_article=304
IMPORTANT EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL ADDRESSES
Le Chapitre AATF du New Jersey
http://www.aatf-nj.org/
Viviane Levy, Co-President
5 Westbrook Road
Westfield, NJ 07090
E-mail: viviane.levy@att.net
Marie Larue Hollander, Co-President
935 Cleveland Avenue
Westfield, NJ 07090
E-mail: marilaur@yahoo.com
Jolene Lichtenwalner, Treasurer
North Hunterdon High School
1445 State Road 31
Annandale, NJ 08801
E-mail: jolenel@eden.rutgers.edu
Sister Cities International (New Jersey)
Borough of Princeton - Colmar, Alsace, France
Alliance Française Chapters in
New Jersey:
* Alliance Française de Montclair
Présidence :Dr. Aharon BEN-HAIM
56 Warfield Street
MONTCLAIR, NJ - 07043
aharon.benhaim@gmail.com
* Alliance Française de Bergen County
Présidence :Mme Chantal ROSANO
848 Woodland Avenue
ORADELL, NJ - 07649
Tél. 201-262-7163
* Alliance Française de Monmouth County
Présidence :Mme Stephanie ROSE
10 Sheraton Lane
RUMSON, NJ - 07760
Tél. 732-747-9698
jrose07760@aol.com
* Alliance Française de Georgian Court College
Présidence :Mme. Linda HEALY
1419 Windsor Ave.
TOMS RIVER, NJ - 08753
Tél. 732-270-5014
Fax. 732-270-5133
bones@csionline.com
* Alliance Francaise de Princeton et de sa
Région
Contact: M. Anthony Fuller
Tél. 609-933-4669
afprinceton@yahoo.com
Princeton French School/Ecole Françise de Princeton
http://www.ecoleprinceton.org/
- By phone: (609) 430-3001
- By fax: (609) 430-0370
- By e-mail:
admin@ecoleprinceton.org
- By mail: P.O. Box 378
Princeton, NJ 08542
New Jersey International Baccalaureate
Schools
Bergen County Academies
200 Hackensack Avenue, Hackensack
Bernards High School
25 Olcott Avenue, Bernardsville
Biotechnology High School
5000 Kozloski Road, Freehold
Bret Harte Elementary School
1909 Queen Anne Road, Cherry Hill
Cherry Hill High School West
2101 Chapel Avenue, Cherry Hill
Henry C. Beck Middle School
950 Cropwell Road, Cherry Hill
Hoboken High School
9th & Clinton Streets
Hoboken, Hudson County
Joseph D. Sharp Elementary School
300 Old Orchard Road, Cherry Hill
Linden High School
121 W St.Georges Avenue, Georges Avenue, Linden
Newark Academy
91 South Orange Avenue, Livingston
Rosa International Middle School
485 Browning Lane, Cherry Hill
Shore Regional High School
132 Monmouth Park Highway, West Long Branch
St. Dominic Academy
2572 Kennedy Boulevard, Jersey City
Thomas Paine Elementary School
4001 Church Road, Cherry Hill
West Morris Central High School
259 Bartley Road, Chester
West Morris Mendham High School
East Main Street, Mendham
L'Association Francophone de Princeton
http://www.asfprinceton.com/
ADDRESS
P.O. Box 624
Kingston, NJ 08528-0624
PHONE
609-683-3952
FAX
609-497-2720
EMAIL
info@asfprinceton.com
Café Français de Bergen County
http://www.cafe-francais.com/
Email: cafe.francais@gmail.com
French Cultural Society of New Brunswick (French Meetup)
http://french.meetup.com/435/?gj=sj6
South Jersey French Language Meetup Group
http://french.meetup.com/642/?gj=sj6
Northern New Jersey French Meetup Group
http://french.meetup.com/649/?gj=sj6
Edgewater/North Bergen French Language Meetup Group
http://french.meetup.com/549/?gj=sj6
Vivre Dans Le New Jersey
http://www.princeton.edu/~lecentre/vivre.htm
French for Corporate Solutions
http://frenchrc.rutgers.edu/corporatefrench.htm
NEW JERSEY'S FRANCOPHONE DEMOGRAPHY
66,000 of New Jersey's residents are native speakers of French, French
Creole. Nearly 154,000 New Jersey residents claim either French or
French Canadian ancestry (nearly 2% of its population). 31,963
foreign-born Haitians in New Jersey (4th largest such population in the
US). Newark is so diverse as to have a West African neighborhood.
Senegalese singer, Aliaune Damala Bouga Time Puru Nacka Lu Lu Lu Badara
Akon Thiam
Akon
http://www.akononline.com/
lives in Jersey City.
NEW JERSEY'S FRANCOPHONE PLACE NAMES
Bayonne, Montclair, Frenchtown, Belleville, Rochelle Park, Villa Marie
Claire, Janvier, Freneau, Lafayette Mills, Normandie, Grandin,
Rosemont, Belford, Belmar, Brielle, Elys, Bonaparte Landing
FRENCH MOMENTS IN NEW JERSEY HISTORY
1524 - Giovanni da Verrazzano, sailing in the service of France,
explored the Jersey Coast.
1672 - The first Catholics in the State of New Jersey were French and
Irish immigrants who crossed the Hudson River from the settlement of
New Amsterdam on Manhattan Island and established themselves in what is
now Middlesex County.
1680s - Huguenot family names appear in the towns of the Monmouth shore.
1690s - Huguenots fleeing France, and Long Islanders who settled at
Cape May.
1730 - Huguenots come to Morris County.
1647 - Nicholas Justice built a log and weatherboard which became the
Justice-Peaslee House on Kings Highway in Clarksboro NJ.
1744 - "King George's War," between France and England.
1778 - In the Spring, the French Navy was threatening to enfold the
British in the Delaware Bay and disrupt sea supply lines.
1781 - On August 19th, Franco-American troops lead by Washington and
Rochambeau (9,000 Americans and 5,000 French )crossed into New Jersey,
heading toward Virginia.
1817 - Joseph Bonaparte, banished from France and Spain, settled in New
Jersey under the name of Count de Survilliers (though Americans tended
to call him Mr. Bonaparte).
Koehler, Albert F., THE HUGUENOTS OR EARLY FRENCH IN NEW JERSEY
and Demarest, Rev. David D., THE HUGUENOTS ON THE HACKENSACK
The Huguenots or Early French in New Jersey
http://www.genealogical.com/products/The%20Huguenots%20or%20Early%20French%20in%20New%20Jersey/9205.html
New Jersey Randonneurs (long distance cycling club)
http://www.njrandonneurs.com/
http://www.njrando.com/
NEW JERSEY'S ROLE IN INTERNATIONAL
BUSINESS
New Jersey: Exports, Jobs, and Foreign Investment
http://www.ita.doc.gov/td/industry/OTEA/state_reports/n-jersey.html
French American Chamber of Commerce in New-York
http://www.uccife.org/usa/new_york/
NJCommerce - International Trade and Protocol
http://www.state.nj.us/commerce/about_intl_trade.shtml
Tourism:
Many Quebecois tourists visit New Jersey beaches during the summer.
New Jersey's 2006 export figures:
total:
$27,002,000,000
1. Canada:
$5,714,000,000
6. Switzerland:
$1,181,000,000
8. France:
$924,000,000
11. Belgium:
$733,000,000
Francophone: $8,552,000,000
Nearly 32% of New Jersey's 2006 trade revenues came from countries
where French is an official language. 206,750 New Jersey jobs are
supported by Canada–U.S. trade. In 2006, Canadians made more than
238,300 visits to New Jersey, spending $70 million. In 2005 New
Jersey was the 12th largest exporting state in the nation. In that
year, one-sixth (16.7 percent) of all manufacturing workers in New
Jersey depended on exports for their jobs.
The total value of all transborder surface trade between New Jersey and
all provinces of Canada from June 2006 through June 2007.
All Canadian Provinces to New
Jersey $5,893,843,407
New Jersey to All Canadian
Provinces $5,474,815,993
New Jersey Foreign Trade Zones:
FTZ 44
500 International Dr. North
Suite 345
Mt. Olive, NJ 07828
973- 347-9100
FTZ 49
Port Newark/Port Elizabeth Marine Terminal
225 Park Ave.
11th Floor
New York, NY 10003
212-435-4260
FTZ 142
South Jersey Port
2nd & Becket Sts.
Camden, NJ 08103
856-757-4969
FTZ 200
Mercer County Airport (off Rt. I-95)
Mercer County Economic Development Director
640 South Broad St.
Trenton, NJ 08611
609-989-6555
FTZ 235
Lakewood Development Corporation
231 Third St.
Lakewood, NJ 08701
732-905-5972
Foreign Direct Investment
In 1999, there were at least 90 companies
in New Jersey operating as subsitiaries of French companies.
In 2002, 6.3% of New Jersey's work force was employed by foreign-owned
companies, giving it a rank of 5th in the country for this aspect of
its internationl economy.
In 2005 New Jersey was home to over 14,000 foreign-based firms (over
$36.8 billion invested). Of those, 12,940 or 92 percent were small and
medium-sized enterprises, with fewer than 500 employees. In the same
year foreign-controlled companies employed 214,000 workers in New
Jersey (6.2 percent of the state’s total private-industry employment),
the seventh largest total among the 50 states. Two of the five top
national sources of this investment were countries where French is an
official language.
New Jersey's office of International Trade & Protocol won second
place honors for "Best Foreign Direct Investment Promotional Strategy"
from Foreign Direct Investment Magazine as part of the publication's
search for the U.S. Cities and States of the Future 2005/2006.
N.J. ranked No. 2 in foreign direct investment [2005]
http://www.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/stories/2005/06/13/daily37.html
One French company, Sanofi-Aventis, the world's third-largest drug
maker, very recently located its US headquarters in Bridgewater, N.J.
Commerce Bancorp Inc. is owned by Canada's D Bank Financial Group
Quebec company will hire New Brunswickers
http://www.cbc.ca/news/story/2000/05/17/nb_contract170500.html
In 1995, foreign investers owned 18,369 acres of New Jersey farm land.
New Jersey-based companies with
subsidiaries in France
Aep Industries Inc. - South Hackensack, NJ
Alpharma Inc. - Fort Lee, NJ
American Standard Inc. - Piscataway, NJ
At&T Corporation - Basking Ridge, NJ
Automatic Data Processing (Adp) - Roseland, NJ
Avaya Inc. - Basking Ridge, NJ
Becton, Dickinson And Company - Franklin Lakes, NJ
Berlitz International, Inc. - Princeton, NJ
Business Layers - Rochelle Park, NJ
C.R. Bard Inc. - Murray Hill, NJ
Caliper Corporation - Princeton, NJ
Campbell Soup Company - Camden, NJ
Century 21 Real Estate Corporation (Cendant Corp.) - Parsippany,
NJ
Cit Group Inc. - Livingston, NJ
Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation - Teaneck, NJ
Columbia Laboratories Inc. - Livingston, NJ
Construction Specialties Inc - Lebanon, NJ
Conversion Services International, Inc. (Csi) - East Hanover, NJ
CORRA TECHNOLOGY, Inc. - Montclair, NJ
Covance, Inc. - Princeton, NJ
Cssc, Inc. - Morristown, NJ
Curtiss- Wright Corporation (Metal Improvement Co) - Paramus, NJ
Cytec Industries - West Paterson, NJ
Dataram Corporation - West Windsor, NJ
Datascope Corporation - Montvale, NJ
Dendrite - Morristown, NJ
Dun & Bradstreet - Murray Hill, NJ
Easylink Services Corporation - Edison, NJ
Engelhard Corporation - Iselin, NJ
Era Franchise Systems, Inc. (Cendant Corporation) - Parsippany, NJ
Foster Wheeler Corp. - Livingston, NJ
Franklin Electronic Publishers - Burlington, NJ
Galileo International Inc (Cendant Corp.) - Parsippany, NJ
Getpaid - Parsippany, NJ
Global Concepts, Ltd. - East Orange, NJ
Globespanvirata, Inc - Red Bank, NJ
Hayward Pool Products, Inc. - Elizabeth, NJ
Hertz Corporation (Ford Motor Co.) - Park Ridge, NJ
Hfs (Hospitality Franchise System) - Parsippany, Morris Plains, NJ
Honeywell International, Inc - Morristown, NJ
Honeywell Specialty Materials (Honeywell International, Inc) -
Morristown, NJ
Idt Corporation - Newark, NJ
Ingersoll-Rand Company - Woodcliff Lakes, NJ
Integra Lifesciences Holdings Corporation - Plainsboro, NJ
J.M. Huber Corporation - Edison, NJ
Johnson & Johnson - New Brunswick, NJ
Kobo Products, Inc. - South Plainfield, NJ
Kulite Semiconductor Products, Inc. - Leonia, NJ
Lightspeed Online Research, Inc. - Basking Ridge, NJ
Lucent Technologies - Murray Hill, NJ
Mafco Worldwide Corporation (M&F Worldwide Corp) - Camden, NJ
Marketware International, Inc. - Holmdel, NJ
Measurement Specialties, Inc. - Fairfield, NJ
Merck & Co., Inc. - Whitehouse Station, NJ
Metrologic Instruments, Inc. - Blackwood, NJ
Midmark Capital - Morriston, NJ
Mikron Infrared, Inc. - Oakland, NJ
Millennium Chemicals - Red Bank, NJ
Mobius Management Systems, Inc. - Rye, NJ
Net2phone, Inc. - Hackensack, NJ
New Brunswick Scientific Co. - Edison, NJ
Novadigm, Inc. - Mahwah, NJ
Opex Corporation - Moorestown, NJ
Osteotech, Inc. - Eatontown, NJ
Pharmanet, Inc. - Princeton, NJ
Physical Acoustics Corp - Princeton Junction, NJ
Pny Technologies, Inc. - Parsippany, NJ
Presentation Technologies - Paterson, NJ
Price Systems, L.L.C. - Mount Laurel, NJ
Princeton Softech - Princeton, NJ
Prudential Financial, Inc. - Newark, NJ
Quantum Genomics Corp - Jersey City, NJ
Quest Diagnostics - Teterboro, NJ
Raritan Computer, Inc. - Somerset, NJ
Reefedge, Inc. - Fort Lee, NJ
Rheometric Scientific, Inc. - Piscataway, NJ
Rockwood Specialties, Inc. - Princeton, NJ
Schering-Plough Corporation - Kenilworth, NJ
Sealed Air Corporation - Saddle Brook, NJ
Strahman Valves, Inc. - Florham Park, NJ
SYSTECH International - Cranbury, NJ
Telcordia Technologies, Inc. - Morristown, NJ
Tellium, Inc. - Oceanport, NJ
Temptime Corporation - Morris Plains, NJ
Toys ''R'' Us, Inc. - Paramus, NJ
Tutogen Medical, Inc. - West Paterson, NJ
Tyco Toys, Inc. - Mount Laurel, NJ
Ulticom, Inc. - Mt. Laurel, NJ
Unex Manufacturing, Inc. - Jackson, NJ
Vertex Interactive, Inc. - Fairfield, NJ
Viva Optique, Inc. - Somerville, NJ
Voxware, Inc. - Princeton, NJ
Wellmann, Inc. - Shrewsbury, NJ
Whale Communications Ltd. - Fort Lee, NJ
Wireless Telecom Group, Inc. - Parsippany, NJ
Wyeth - Madison, NJ
ZAI CARGO INC - Paterson, NJ