Manhattan, July 10th, 2025.
My plan for The Bronx, if elected Mayor, city of New York.
The Bronx is the oldest part of New York City, and it saddens me now to see how badly run and how well neglected, overlooked and poor this historic borough is as at today. To start correcting all of these disturbing issues, if elected Mayor, city of New York this winter, I will not only work exclisively to culturally revive and economically re-energize the Bronx, I will set up a common-pool resource system specifically tailored to The Bronx, apply the principles of an open source platform, and bring The Bronx right out of the abbyss.
For a start, I will have to reduce the burden of household poverty, the problem of economic inequality, high rent, high poverty. Face down the issue of child poverty, the fear of indiscriminate gentrification and rampant displacement that has skyrocketed all over the Bronx right after covid-19 and still visible till now.
I will tackle high crime rate, sanitation, climate change, storm, pollution and lead poisoning in buildings. I will look into why there is limited access to housing – affordable, co-op and market rate, as well as low rate of employment all over the historic borough of Bronx.
It is imperative to work on improving street parking issues in heavily residential areas all over the Bronx as well as tackle the source of traffic congestion for commuters on Harlem river drive, the areas around the Yankee statdium and beyond.
Improve local transport infrastructure with green and environmentally friendly technology so the borough is better connected by street rail cars. These are green, quiet, environmentally friendly and much cheaper to set up that train or subway lines. Metals and metal coatings on materials used for building our existing subway and city train infrastructures are old and are the biggest contaminants to local city environment. I will look into how best to correct these and update as needed.
With my open source principle for running the city, it will be alot easier to address huge digital divide in schools and with businesses in the Bronx. As a second chance banker, I want businesses all over the Bronx to adopt digital technologies, stop trading in cash and get everyone in the Bronx to sign up for my community development banking system.
I am Abbey Laurel-Smith, an Independent candidate running for Mayor of the City of New York. As your candidate, I favor the general well being of all New Yorkers. And as much as I promise to work to improve the living experience for retirees, students, city workers and low income families, I also promise to work hard on bringing back those high earning out-migrators who left the city for neighboring states during the pandemic.
I put New Yorkers first. Join me, vote better live this general election and let’s rebuild your city.