Jordan Fraade
@jordanfraade.bsky.social
Civil servant, urbanist, insufferable Brooklyn e-bike dad. NYC chauvinist who likes most other places too
“The son of the man who ran the 1975 NYC Financial Control Board is writing for NYT Opinion encouraging the Mamdani administration to adopt Donald Shoup Thought”…what a time to be alive www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/o...
Opinion | We Have a Way to Pay for Free Buses. It Means Free Street Parking Is Over.
www.nytimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:55 PM
“The son of the man who ran the 1975 NYC Financial Control Board is writing for NYT Opinion encouraging the Mamdani administration to adopt Donald Shoup Thought”…what a time to be alive www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/o...
Many are saying I am prescient
"If Adams won’t promote good governance, the city’s progressive left should do it instead. Voters who lack strong ideological beliefs but simply want the city’s many public services to work well might be willing to take a chance on something new"
prescient @jordanfraade.bsky.social from July 2021
prescient @jordanfraade.bsky.social from July 2021
The Best Chance for the Left to Run Cities Again Starts With the Trash
It's worked before.
slate.com
October 17, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Many are saying I am prescient
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Not only did Shahana Hanif win, but she easily won in the parts of the district closest to the rezoning where she pissed off local NIMBYs (EDs 31-36). They're all talk! enr.boenyc.gov/CD26925AD443...
Member of the City Council 39th Council District
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June 25, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Not only did Shahana Hanif win, but she easily won in the parts of the district closest to the rezoning where she pissed off local NIMBYs (EDs 31-36). They're all talk! enr.boenyc.gov/CD26925AD443...
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Closing down the blocks in front of schools to cars is such a no-brainer on a policy level, but would likely trigger a community board thermonuclear war.
June 25, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Closing down the blocks in front of schools to cars is such a no-brainer on a policy level, but would likely trigger a community board thermonuclear war.
This is true and it cuts both ways IMO: He will need competent progressives who normally wouldn’t touch City govt with a 10-foot pole, and he will need competent progs who are already in City govt to help him manage it. Activist/organizer mindset has to cede ground to actually delivering the goods.
June 25, 2025 at 2:03 PM
This is true and it cuts both ways IMO: He will need competent progressives who normally wouldn’t touch City govt with a 10-foot pole, and he will need competent progs who are already in City govt to help him manage it. Activist/organizer mindset has to cede ground to actually delivering the goods.
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The Best Chance for the Left to Run Cities Again Starts With the Trash
It's worked before.
slate.com
June 25, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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weird that running a disgraced sex pest who killed more New Yorkers than Bin Laden was a bad idea
June 25, 2025 at 1:44 AM
weird that running a disgraced sex pest who killed more New Yorkers than Bin Laden was a bad idea
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BREAKING: the Murdoch Broadsheet has discovered historical materialism
June 24, 2025 at 2:39 PM
BREAKING: the Murdoch Broadsheet has discovered historical materialism
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still think this is one of the greatest posts ever made
June 22, 2025 at 1:20 PM
still think this is one of the greatest posts ever made
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The Dodgers announce they are donating $1 million toward direct financial assistance for families of immigrants impacted by recent events in the region, with more announcements to come.
June 20, 2025 at 10:47 PM
The Dodgers announce they are donating $1 million toward direct financial assistance for families of immigrants impacted by recent events in the region, with more announcements to come.
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"hey 35 to 50 year old newsreading liberals what was the run-up to the iraq war like" is the most precision crafted bait possible on this website
I was too young to be ware of the Iraq invasion debate but was it this degree of stupid? It can't have been this stupid.
June 18, 2025 at 7:12 PM
"hey 35 to 50 year old newsreading liberals what was the run-up to the iraq war like" is the most precision crafted bait possible on this website
I’m An Urban Planner Who Thinks Every Marginal Operating Dollar Should Fund Better Service, Not Free Fares, And I Vote (for Zohran)
June 19, 2025 at 11:02 PM
I’m An Urban Planner Who Thinks Every Marginal Operating Dollar Should Fund Better Service, Not Free Fares, And I Vote (for Zohran)
Post-2020 backlash was IMO a combination of this and the first time in decades there was a genuinely tight labor market
large swaths of american elites — and not just conservatives — experienced 2020 as a crisis of social reproduction. they will do whatever it takes to make sure keyleigh and dylan never post an instagram black square ever again
May 23, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Post-2020 backlash was IMO a combination of this and the first time in decades there was a genuinely tight labor market
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I have a piece in the @sfchronicle.com today about why San Francisco should copy New York's successful congestion pricing model to revitalize downtown: www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...
N.Y. is using this controversial idea to fight traffic, fund transit and bring life back downtown. S.F. can, too
Every so often, policymakers are lucky enough to find a rare win-win that makes everyone better off. Congestion pricing is one of those ideas.
www.sfchronicle.com
May 22, 2025 at 1:56 PM
I have a piece in the @sfchronicle.com today about why San Francisco should copy New York's successful congestion pricing model to revitalize downtown: www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...
Something I’ve been thinking about recently: When we talk about asking older people to stop driving, the thing we’re expected to be most sensitive to is their feelings of lost autonomy. As if it’s gauche to insist on other people’s right to live w/o being menaced by seniors operating deadly machines
May 21, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Something I’ve been thinking about recently: When we talk about asking older people to stop driving, the thing we’re expected to be most sensitive to is their feelings of lost autonomy. As if it’s gauche to insist on other people’s right to live w/o being menaced by seniors operating deadly machines
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This is just the Adams Administration/Adams DOT allowing "member deference" to apply to street design. The City Council has no formal power over this decision
Bike lanes (even painted ones that end up as illegal parking) are "woke" to South Brooklyn Council Member Inna Vernikov, and need to be stopped.
Proudly Anti-Safety: Brooklyn Pol Boasts of Getting DOT To 'Pause' Long Promised Bike Lanes - Streetsblog New York City
Even painted bike lanes are too "woke" for the MAGA warrior of Southern Brooklyn, Council Member Inna Vernikov.
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May 21, 2025 at 1:59 PM
This is just the Adams Administration/Adams DOT allowing "member deference" to apply to street design. The City Council has no formal power over this decision
Gerryontocracy www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Democratic Virginia congressman Gerry Connolly dies aged 75
Connolly had served in Congress since 2009 and had announced in 2024 that he was battling esophageal cancer
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May 21, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Gerryontocracy www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Someone should write the sequel to the original and call it “Albion’s Seed (And That’s Bad)”
You can tell that despite centuries of divergence and differing demographics from waves of immigration, the United Kingdom is ultimately our mother country to whom we owe our culture and way of life because British voters want all the nurses deported and more efficient healthcare.
May 16, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Someone should write the sequel to the original and call it “Albion’s Seed (And That’s Bad)”
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An American from a blue collar background, who spent their early career in Peru before rising to a prominent position in Europe? Congratulations Pope Lydia Tár!
May 8, 2025 at 5:25 PM
An American from a blue collar background, who spent their early career in Peru before rising to a prominent position in Europe? Congratulations Pope Lydia Tár!
One of the reasons I’m so skeptical of a lot of received wisdom on when kids are “best” is that 2 is a famously difficult age and hanging out with my 2 year old is pretty much my favorite activity
April 30, 2025 at 3:03 PM
One of the reasons I’m so skeptical of a lot of received wisdom on when kids are “best” is that 2 is a famously difficult age and hanging out with my 2 year old is pretty much my favorite activity
Plenty to criticize about how CAHSR has been mismanaged but fundamentally I think normie Californians think traffic and flight delays suck and they want an alternative— it’s that simple
Californians continue to strongly support high speed rail. The decades-long propaganda campaign against it simply hasn’t worked. People know it’s absurd that California doesn’t have a true statewide rail system.
That’s going to change. We’re working to make it much easier & faster to get it done.
That’s going to change. We’re working to make it much easier & faster to get it done.
April 18, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Plenty to criticize about how CAHSR has been mismanaged but fundamentally I think normie Californians think traffic and flight delays suck and they want an alternative— it’s that simple
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Here are the US reciprocal tariffs against all the territories mentioned in Enya’s Orinoco Flow
April 2, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Here are the US reciprocal tariffs against all the territories mentioned in Enya’s Orinoco Flow
Something you’re hearing more and more is that “Having opinions about politics and sharing them in the media” is not a real job and these people should pull themselves up by their bootstraps and learn some real skills so they can experience the dignity of work
One columnist, a professional pundit, is living in a paranoid delusion. The other, a sociologist, is living in America.
March 15, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Something you’re hearing more and more is that “Having opinions about politics and sharing them in the media” is not a real job and these people should pull themselves up by their bootstraps and learn some real skills so they can experience the dignity of work
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The Democratic Party’s problems are not about being moderate or left. That’s a consultant and pundit red herring
The problems are in party organization, the culture of “it’s their turn” nominations, candidate recruitment, gerontocracy, inability to shape media topics, and coming off hella lame
The problems are in party organization, the culture of “it’s their turn” nominations, candidate recruitment, gerontocracy, inability to shape media topics, and coming off hella lame
March 14, 2025 at 3:00 PM
The Democratic Party’s problems are not about being moderate or left. That’s a consultant and pundit red herring
The problems are in party organization, the culture of “it’s their turn” nominations, candidate recruitment, gerontocracy, inability to shape media topics, and coming off hella lame
The problems are in party organization, the culture of “it’s their turn” nominations, candidate recruitment, gerontocracy, inability to shape media topics, and coming off hella lame