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My plan for lower Manhattan, Chinatown, the lower East side and the Village, New York City.  

Manhattan, July 10th, 2025.

New York City – (SmithieForMayor) – If elected Mayor this coming winter, I see it as imperative to reduce the burden of household poverty, face down economic inequality, tackle high rent, high poverty, aggressively pursue child poverty, gentrification, rampant development and displacement that has skyrocketed all over Chinatown right after covid-19.

And this I plan to do in the first three months of assuming office.

I see a much stronger need to tackle high crime rate, sanitation, the subtle effect of climate change, storm, pollution and let’s not forget lead poisoning in buildings, plus limited access to housing and low rate of employment in Chinatown.

Setting out to improve street parking issues in heavily residential areas all over Chinatown as well as tackle the spource of traffic congestion for commuters all over Chinatown, Soho, Little Italy and Delancey street is long overdue.  I will do whatever is neccessary to ease these burdens so city residents of these historic areas of New York City could sit back and enjoy the benefits of a better life with families and friends after a hard days work.

Please feel free to take me up on this if nothing is done after six months of assuming office.

Reform existing tax structures, create new ones if needed, and address how we use tax abatement as a way to drive economic growth and new development initiatives all over Chinatown, Lower east side, The Village, Soho and the rest of Lower Manhattan area.

The subway is the main lifeline of these areas.  Our local transport infrastructure is old, loud and rusty.  I see it as important and critical to consider the effect of rusty metals, paint coating on the environment and on nearby houses in these old part of the city.  To tackle this, I will push for the use of green anti-contaminant materials for the cleaning of all subway stations as well as providing security for commuters and local residents.

I need one year to address these issues. Outline them as facts and feel free to use the city’s 311 line to remind me of promises I made.

We can talk all we want about Asian hate, but it’s meaningless if we don’t address our own personal but instinctive Asian bias in all walks of life. Best way to start is in education, sports, housing and healthcare.  I will therfore not hesitate to address huge digital divide in schools and with businesses in Chinatown, so businesses all over Chinatown could easily adopt digital technologies and stop trading in cash.

These are all in line with my poor relief campaign for the city of New York.

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.

Manhattan, July 10th, 2025.

My plan for Staten Island, if elected Mayor, city of New York.  

Serene, green and lushful Staten Island – with its unique history, I would love to present to anyone walking on this planet as the world’s maiden borough, because that’s exactly what it is.  

But what do we have today?  Staten Island, a borough of New York City, saddled with high property tax.  And the fact that it is the most heavily property taxed borough in the City is as mind boggling as it is disturbing.  

As an independent candidate for Mayor, I follow the law, I follow common sense and not partisan politics.  I therefore want to use my political neutrality to reduce this burden of high property tax on all that calls Staten Island their home.  To make this happen, I plan to declare the Island a heritage site.  

And will use New York City’s Public Work Investment Act as a tool for the development of a grand public project – one with capacity to garner revenue on a scale that is consistent, stable and big enough to make a property tax reduction permanent for the next fifty or more years on the Island.  

A project like this will be create a new stream of revenue and jobs for everyone in the borough. It will lead to a total reform of existing tax structures, as well as allowing me to addressing how we use tax abatement to drive economic growth and development initiatives in this borough.  

This is crucial and of vital importance to how this project is and will be funded from beginning to the end. Please note: I don’t belive in PPP, and I am not a fan of engaging a banking for profit system – that takes all revenues to Wall Street for a project of this size.  

I will therefore keep to my NYC Poor Relief Campaign goal – which calls for setting up community banks in all the five boroughs, withn the purpose of overseeing and enforcing communal well being.  And since I want to keep revenues in local hands as well as use local revenues for providing quality services in local areas, I will use a bank like this to fund this type of public work and local projects in other boroughs.

The more we put into Manhattan, the higher the the rate of cost of living for everyone becomes. 

Local transport infrastructure will need to be improved with green and environmentally friendly technology so the borough is better connected by street cars.  Priority for hotels, lodgings and hospitality accomodation establishments and conversions will be given to Staten Island residents rather than established names in the hiotel industry.   

Besides asking for your votes at the ballot box this November, all I want from Staten Island residents is to consider a choice of two out of these three options: a copy of the Basilica in Rome, a Disney land for families or a world class EV racing track.  

Bear in mind that each one of htese options comes with an international airport for the Island.  So we are talking of a creation of at least fifty thousand or more permanent Island jobs that will be directly linked to this project once completed.  

My NYC Poor Relief Campaign goal is all about bringing development, permanent jobs, new money and new wealth to other New York City boroughs out side Manhattan, and this is an example of one of my many plans.

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.

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.

Manhattan, August 14th, 2025.

I will beautify New York City landscape with agritecture and agritectural buildings.

New York City — (SmithieForMayor) — I will reduce sugar and fat contents in food and drinks sold on every shelve in New York City.

We talk of green and organic foods today, but if we look a few hundred years back, the talk then was about letting animals forage rather than sharing a precious natural resource like water with them, or above ground eatables versus root vegetables. 

In Ireland, faith based leaders convinced the Irish public by guiding them away from eating potato, fish or anything that is below ground or from the sea because these things grew in an environment that lack’s the direct effect of God’s hand – that is sunlight.  No one saw them grow.  No one watered them.  They lacked care and God’s blessing because the sun never shined on them.  

And the Irish public – with a deep sense of religious belief and responsibility, went along with thisn line of thinking, regardless of whether their land is good for maize, corn, wheat, barley or other things that grow above ground.

Almost same could be said of kosher, except the fact that it is impossible to link kosher rules and guides to a leader as it has always been an oral tradition passed down through generations.  But if one compares what could be grown on the Irish soil to that of animals being made to eat anything and everything except water – a scarce resource in the desert environment of the Middle East, then it make sense to ban the consumption of certain animals that might have feasted on flesh and feaces.  

The Irish have since moved on to eating root vegetables, and now live healthier and longer than their ancestors, but majority in our Jewish communities haven’t moved on from kosher. 

In New York City of today, food cost has gone up by five, six or ten folds.  And anything kosher costs even more.  We are fast coming to a point where – like it or not, we have to agree that eating green, breathing green, living green and drinking green is a lifestyle our primogenital ancestors did not see as healthy nor privileged.  Everything they eat was green.  And as far as they were concerned, the water around them – if they ever drink it or wash in it, was pure and natural, yet their lifespan wasn’t anything beyond 35, 40, or maybe up to 45 if they’re lucky.  

The fact that we live longer today than our ancestors is not because we eat green, drink clear green water, eat kosher and live in houses made of green materials. No. Our lives and our standards of living improved because of science, rational thinking about nutrients and vitamins.  We are living longer because of scientific discoveries about food, rules and regulations about depleting resources, as well as soil and resource management.

Water quality has significantly improved in the past 200 years because science and technological advancement helps us understand wetlands filteration system better than ever, made us aware of contaminants as well as how best to go about treating waste water.  I will therefore not be wrong to say that a pig raised and fed under these circumstances or in a bio-tech induced agritectural farm is very very kosher.   

It is with this in mind that I plan to introduce agritecture and the concept of industrial scale agritectural buildings to the city of New York.  And by doing so, I will help the city grow and produce at least 30% of what we eat and drink in the city.  This will help create a framework for reducing sugar and fat content in food and drinks that are being sold to kids in schools as well as to everyone in the city of New York.

With agritecture on an industrial scale, I will not only implement initiatives that will help New Yorkers’ gain a healthy weight, I will be bringing down cost of food and essential commodities for the general well being of all in New York City.

And I plan to do this by putting a few neglected city structures scattered all over the five boroughs to green and pastoral use. 

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.

Manhattan, August 10th, 2025.

A universal healthcare system and insurance that works for New York City.

New York City – (SmithieForMayor) – Cost of going to med school leave students with close to half a million dollars of student loan debt. To avoid this heavy financial burden, many students now opt for an easier path in the areas of programming, software or system engineering.  These are not just a set of less expensive paths to take, studying and becoming proficient in the tech arts take just a few years.  And whether you graduate or not, salary is rewarding, work environment is different and the possibility of being an employer is more than ever. 

But New York City of today is in need of doctors, nurses, dentists, healthcare specialists and others.  And rather than keeping up the fashionable trend of importing trained professionals from other countries – whose values, beliefs and work ethics are far different from ours, it makes sense to encourage local governing bodies and elected officials to step in and encourage young Americans to not give up on these key studies.

This is where I come in, if elected Mayor, city of New York this coming winter.

As part of my NYC Poor Relief Campaign, I am proposing a plan to ease this student debt type of financial problem for Americans studying to become a healthcare professional.  My plan for them is in two folds.  First, partner with medical and healthcare students whilst in school and take up the responsibility for part of their student loans.  They just need to agree to work for the city for the first five years of their professional life after graduation.

Two, set up medical surgeries – a healthcare clinic staffed with doctors, nurses and emergency staff, every quarter of half a mile in all the five boroughs of the city.  These clinics will be the first place of call for treatment and diagnosis that does not require hospitalization or overnight hold of hospital beds.

And if cost of ambulance and EMT services is a problem for New Yorkers’, then I propose Uberlance – with trained and certified crew, as a cheaper back up for those who cannot afford the cost of paying for an FDNY attached ambulance and EMT services.

This is a key part of my plan for addressing New York City’s need for affordable healthcare and insurance.  Getting this off ground requires having to adjust our paycheck and wage structure to create an allowance for special NYC healthcare trust fund for every living soul in the city.  

This healthcare trust will be set up to address and fund general medicare needs. It will address dental issues – from diagnosis to replacement and surgeries, and will be independent of medicaid or other existing healthcare plans.  It will cover pregnancy, maternity leave and pregnancy accidents at work.

In general, I will not only create a universal healthcare system that works for New Yorkers’ I will encourage home grown talents to get more involved in medical studies and curb this idea of recruiting healthcare workers from abroad.    

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.

Manhattan, July 28th 2025.

NEW YORK CITY, NY – (SmithieForMayor) – Reflecting on New York City’s voting history, Abbey Laurel-Smith, a mayoral candidate said, “New Yorkers’ vote better life because of lessons learnt from the violent Slave insurrections of the 1700’s to 1777.”

“City residents”, he continued, “have somehow grown accustomed to the fact that avoiding any form of disruption is not only bad for local communities, it is bad for business, bad for the city, as well as the the law of the land.

This is not saying “better life” is a candidate or “better life” is a political party featured on the ballot, no, “better life” to New Yorkers’ is an impartial public input into the city’s governance. And as always, this input often originate as a small talk taken to a community board meeting.

Sad to say that for the past two decades, this push for “better life” has been slowly pushed aside for a need to “improve quality of life and equity”. And as a result cost of living has risen to a non sustainable level, city is less safe and the whole system is being administered as if city is on a pay check to pay check roll. Equity is out of the discussion as life and all developments are drawn towards building, rebuilding and fine tunning assets in Manhattan.”

That’s why I plan to pause Manhattan and tactfully spread development to other boroughs. Equity will be addressed the same way of health care issues are. Otherwise city vagrants, the homeless and those with mental issues – wandering up and down the streets of Manhattan, will become shared responsibilities of all the five boroughs”, he chuckled as he conclusively quipped.

So what exactly – in this time and age, has been edging city residents away from the tradition of voting better life to voting quality of life?

“Answer number one” as he pointed out is, “career politicians and the way they have rebranded the art of a solicited engagement. Which is now a trend that makes any form of direct public input for “better life” feel as if dead. Not quite dead, but feels like it and I plan to change that with this person to person campaign in all the five boroughs.”

And answer number two, he continued, “is the city’s constantly chagnging demography, population growth and priority for certain professional studies that are either based on transactional arts or coding and IT related. The city has not only grown away from its agrarian and industrial ID. New Yorkers’ – in their own city, now live in pockets of dispersed communities. And if we consider the effect of gentrification on top of this, I hope I won’t be faulted for saying it, but a lot of New Yorkers feels as if out-numbered on the city’s voters’ list.

Another thing is, since the pandemic, New York City has risen up to be the child poverty capital of all cities in the United States. This is due to demands placed of low income and working families due to high cost of living, rising rent and rates. To make ends meet, some kids have had to go to work or husstle whatever they can get their hands on to support two working parents. And those who have no skills or are from a single working parent household ended up felling neglected and finding communal guide, solace and love from the wrong source – just like TuPac said in one of his raps.

It might not be obvious to any onlooker that this beloved city of ours is now the child poverty capital of the United States, because when you walk up an down the city, everyone is either dressed up or fashionably poised to play their favorite character in their choice of attires. But what do you say of a kid who can’t read, write or print his or her name properly? Is there any other way to describe him or her beside being a poor New York City sod?”

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.

Follow my campaign, donate if you can, and help spread the word about SmithieForMayor NYC 2025.

Curated energy for AI and for teachers in New York City schools.  

Manhattan, July 28th 2025.

New York City — (SmithieForMayor NYC) — To say we are on the eve of AI is a bit late for stating the obvious.  As of today, AI is capable of running our classrooms, better at grading students, capable of making our hospitals run without a hitch, capable of taking over our transportation system – running traffic, enabling traffic lights, enforce road safety, clear road jams, boost networks and independently tackle security issues whilst keeping the flow of travel time, cost and accessibility on point.  

On the other hand, effect of AI could be better felt, if and when we decide to turn New York City into a smart city or get Uber to start running Uberllance as a way to get the sick, the injured and retirees to hospitals at a more accessible and cheaper rate. 

But do we have to be overwhelmed by AI?  No.  Best we can do is to try understand it from a pedestrian point of view, then accept it as a created entity or simply put, an intelligence fed into a machine by a group of people for a single purpose.  And that purpose is to mimic a living and a thinking organism.  

Only then can we proceed to ask ourselves the right questions about it.  

In my case, I am an Independent candidate running for Mayor city of New York.  The city’s health, mode and flow, I see as poor.  To jumpstart the city, I need to re-invigorate it.  I need to rebrand and refocus it in a way that will boost economic activities as well as bring down cost of living.  And the only way I could do this effectively is to lean on re-energizing its infrastucture and network without breaking it.

To make this happen, I have therefore decided to not only tie my campaign promise to energy, because energy is a much overlooked driving force that has proven to enhance economic growth as well as power multiple resources at the same time.  

In short, I will re-curate energy in New York City.  I will curate how we deliver different energy types to different sources all over the five boroughs and beyond.  And my main ally for this push to curate energy will be AI. 

AI needs energy to give live to it.  AI by itself or AI without energy to drive it, cannot be deployed and actualized in the real world.  It should also be known that AI with human intelligence plus computation input but no energy, is sterile.  It will not be able to disrupt any classroom more than it will – the imaginative mind of anyone reading it as a piece of theoretical project in a written form.

An untamed energy and a misunderstood AI will not only disrupt New York city’s economic growth, it will undercut established banking practices, make life hell for teachers, doctors, nurses, dentists, bankers, trade school specialists, all types of city workers and business people in general.

But if the right type of action is taken and directed to guide how it is accessed, how it is to be used and how it is to be deployed within the city’s domain and beyond, then we have nothing to fear.    

Re-curating how we deliver energy to source – with AI streamlined to the precise need of user and user’s ID, in the city of New York, is one of a few ways I would employ as Mayor, if I have bring back the city’s productive and manufacturing ID in the first three months of taking office. 

I am Abbey Laurel-Smith.  As your Independent candidate for Mayor of the City of New York, I follow the law, not politics. I am committed to enabling an AI friendly city where teachers need not worry about students using AI to write essays and do home works.  

To drive up interests in studying to become professionals in non IT related fields, cost of trade school trainings and student loans for college graduates will be shared with the city – so long as young New Yorkers’ are willing to commit to spend the first five to ten years of their working life to live and work in the city, or work for the city.

A vote for me is not just a vote for better life, it is a vote for a return to our old paternal Anglo-Protestant Economic System (APES)  Trust in me to rebuild your city.  Don’t waste it by voting the wrong candidate.

Follow my campaign, donate if you can, and help spread the word about SmithieForMayor NYC 2025.

Waste to energy power plants for New York City

Manhattan, July 14th 2025.

New York City – (SmithieForMayor) – New York City is a big producer waste, and probably the biggest in the world.  The city collect wastes, recycle what could be recycled, crush the rest and then bury them in a landfill hoping they’ll dissolve into and organic matter in the nearest future.  

Well, if elected Mayor, city of New York this coming general election in November, I want to put an end to this practice of burying wastes – toxic or not, in landfills.  And my reason for wanting to do so is because of the danger these buried wastes pose to underground water bed and resources. 

At the same time, I am not wrecking ball.  I am a re-constructionist of General Grant’s mode, style and belief.  And as a creative deconstructionist, I don’t destroy institutions or take apart institutional practices – if I don’t have a better replacement.   

In this case, I plan to build waste to energy plants with HVDC transmitters, micro grids and energy storage systems all over the city.  These plants will burn all collected trash and solid wastes and convert them to cheap heat and electricity for homes though out the city.  Fumes from these thermal furnaces will not be allowed into the atmosphere.  They will be collected, compressed and used to make other green and environmentally friendly materials.

 I proposed this energy option and grid conversion twelve years ago – as a Mayoral candidate in 2013, just after Mayor Michael Bloomberg left office.  My proposal hasn’t gone out of fashion.  It is much needed now, so, I’m proposing it again. I believe a system like this is not only safer for the city to maintain and operate, it is also a perfect fit for bringing down cost of living for New Yorkers’.  

And unlike the current system, this waste to energy system, doesn’t rely on gas, fuel and nuclear power sources to keep up with providing power for the city’s vastly growing population.  No.  It doesn’t runs on aging gas main lines – made with cast iron and unprotected steel that are actively releasing methane into the atmosphere in the city.  No.  It is powered by heat from burning wastes collected from everywhere all over the city.

We are at a time where temperatures are getting hotter than ever.  Heat waves during summer periods are becoming unbearable.  Better protection of our grid system from the effect of weather as well as how gas and methane emmissiom  impact our lean biodiversity and fragile green habitat is imperative. 

And building waste to energy plants for the city, requires building a satellite of smaller network of grids – all of which will be placed on an HVDC platform for better performance, better security from extreme weather as well as faster delivery of direct and undisrupted energy to homes, government buildings and businesses. 

With a safer and a more sustainable energy for the future, we will have our own share of cleaner air and won’t need to levy a congestion charge on anyone coming to work or visiting the city.

At the end of the day, New Yorkers’ will not only be getting a very much reduced electricity and heat bill, we’ll have direct current system that will move electric vehicle manufacturers in the direction of creation a magnetic induction charge technology for EV’s. 

This one out of many ways that I plan to ReBuildNewYorkCity and turn it into a safe, secure and sustainable place, where living costs, rates, rents are lowered, and city’s productive identity revived and energized by technology.

My name is Abbey Laurel-Smith.  And as an Independent candidate, I put New Yorkers first before politics.  I have no party doctrine to follow apart from public safety and general well being of all.  As said many times before, you can always trust me to ReBuildNewYorkCity and lead the city in a new direction.

A vote for me is a vote for a better life!”   

Why New Yorkers’ always vote better life and equity?  

Manhattan, June 26th, 2025.

New York City – (SmithieForMayor) – New Yorkers’ vote better life and equity because of lessons learnt from the violent Slave insurrections of the 1700’s to 1777.  Avoiding violent public disruption is not only bad for the general public, its bad for business as well as  the law of the land. 

This is not saying “better life” is a candidate or “better life” is a political party featured on the ballot, no.  “Better life” to New Yorkers’ is taken as an allowance for an impartial public into the society.  And this impartial imput should be one that is advocated for at community board level, then push through to the ballot after being delibrated on, deemed reasonable, needed, necessary and unaviodable by everyone and for everyone to now go and vote on.  

Advantage for a process like this is in the frameworks and mechanisms provided in the city’s charter.  

These standardized structure granted allowances and provisions for city residents to recognize a push for “better life”, participate in any such push, rather than blindly vote to improve quality of life – which most New Yorkers’ now see and regard as partisan, self focused as it eventually lead to individual affordability.

Now, quality of life is winning, and cost of living has risen to a non sustainable level, and is still going up, then one is forced to ask, what exactly – in this time and age, is slowly edging city residents away from the city’s tradition of voting better life and equity.  

Answer number one is, career politicians. Those who favored growing through different levels of the city’s political establishment as law makers and those who chose to stay in office by ignoring term limits. 

We are being made to vote for potential improvements, which – thanks to career politicians of today, results in city residents casting votes that doesn’t really improve quality of life, talk less of guaranteeing a true change.  

This is a solicited engagement.  Its a trend makes any form of direct public input for a better life feel as if dead, and I plan to change that.  a drunk mule will not trip on the same pebble stone twice.

Answer number two is, changing face of the city, demography and population growth are another set of factors  to consider.  The city has grown to be more transactional and in the process has shed its agrarian and industrial ID.  New Yorkers’ in their own city and in pockets of communities have been outnumbered by gentrification as well as on the voters’ list. 

Third answer will be because the city’s education system had been modified to cater more for transactional arts. 

I am Abbey Laurel-Smith, an Independent candidate running for Mayor of the City of New York. And I believe Public input advocating for a better life is not dead.  

As your candidate, I follow the law, not politics. I am committed to a safe, secure and sustainable city – where living costs, rates and rent are lowered, and city’s productive identity revived and energized by technology.

I believe in public safety.  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 will also devise a means to bring back those high earning out-migrators who left the city for neighboring states during the pandemic. 

I put New Yorkers first, and I plan to lead the city in a new direction by offering fresh, bold, reasonably green ideas.

A vote for me is a vote for a better life this general election!

Follow my campaign, donate if you can, and help spread the word about SmithieForMayor NYC 2025.

A Time Limited Dollar Is The Best Way Forward For New York City.

Manhattan, July 4th, 2025.

New York City — (SmithieForMayor) — Scanning the sky for fire works on a 4th of July evening, Abbey Laurel-Smith, an Independent candidate for Mayor, city of New York said, “creating a time limited dollar is the best way forward if we are really serious about making New York City safe, secure, livable and sustainable for all”.  

Few hours before, Abbey was at McCarren Park, meeting Greenpoint locals and doing a one on one question and answer with the general public in the that area of Brooklyn all through the afternoon of the 4th of July. 

Reflecting on the McCarren park experience at a rooftop party in Williamsburg later that evening, Abbey said, “problem with our current crop of political leaders in New York City as well as the rest of America is, many either grew up within the political establishment or had embedded inside a political administration system that has shielded them from ever going out to hustle a dime on any one of many streets of New York City. 

And after a period of time spent moving from one political post to another or time accumulated sitting on the same council seat, they somewhat develop a thick skin towards term-limit.  As we all know of term-limit hating operators, the only one attribute they are most giddy to put to use at times like this, is being media savvy.  

Take them out of that mindset, and they are not just short of civic remedies, they are just too far removed from the type of challenges faced by everyday Bob, Marybeth and Jane. 

This in a way, makes the assumption that a full time career politicians would have developed excellent skills for good governance, farce and best at fault.  Therefore relying on someone from such a system, to miraculously get New York City out of our current economic situation is almost impossible”. 

One thing to note here is, as an Independent candidate, Abbey is not a career professional politician, and being independent allows him, as he claims, “to follow the law, keep to ethics, and ignore partisan politics since the idea of kow-towing a party doctrine doesn’t exist in his indie world”.  Therefore, he considers himself, “New Yorkers’ best option for Mayor.”

He goes on to say, “as of today, it is easy for anyone to say I’m going to fix the city.  I’m going to take care of retirees and tackle homelessness.  But that statement is useless if in reality you can’t come up with a way to generate new stream of income to tackle these problems for the city.  Personally, I think the best way out of this dire situation – facing our city and the rest of the country today, is to turn our almighty paper dollar or the digital sum we now have access to on our phones to a time limited legal tender with demurrage – that is, charge a fee for hoarding the dollar, and loose the money if not spent before the end of every quarterly cycle, before anything else.  

Like it or not, it is the only way an Independent candidate like myself, could get money hoarders in the city to go dig up the loot they have buried in their backyard, stashed away under their bed, inside their mattress or tucked in pillows.  Hidden cash is not doing anyone any good so long as it stays hidden.  But if you save them, you are lending money to banks and you are helping to beat down interest rate and cost of living.  If you spend, you are not only boosting consumption and economic activity, you are energizing local businesses in economically depressed areas of the city.”

So what is a time limited cash and why is it needed now?

“Answer is simple”, he replied as we keep scanning the panoramic Willimsburg skyscape for fireworks.  “Time limited cash, check or digital money is a time restricted money that I would allow to be used as payments for goods, salaries, wages and services.  It is time limited because as a legal tender, it has to be cashed, spent or invest in something tangible within a given period of time, otherwise it becomes worthless and unexchangeable once the time placed on it has passed.  

Given the current state of New York City, I’d allow time limited cash to be used to service debt – mortgages, insurance, healthcare plan, tax or be exchanged for all kinds of goods and tangible assets.  Time cap on the dollar will reduce the allure of the dollar, curb immigration a little bit, and bring back outmigrants – those high salary earners who left the city for other states during the pandemic, to their beloved city because interest rates will be down to down to its true value.

To stop this from fueling inflation, If elected Mayor, I will not to place a limit on spending, and neither will I raise an eyebrow about source of deposited stash into public welfare banks.  So long as the federal reserve is not printing money, or making credits available to banks during this period, general price, level of services and goods will be stable.  The city will be livable, affordable, sustainable and fun for all”.

“And guess what!” He continues, “historical examples of time limited cash could be traced back to Edward I, King of England, who, almost 900 years ago, started taking stock of the treasury and minting new coins quarterly – as a way to beat those trying to debase the value of coins in his domain was the first English King in history to use time limited currency to revive the economic fate of his Kingdom.  

The greenback in the United States, was for some time used this way – to beat the British who own the ports, cargo ships, warehouses but lost control of inland supply lines and inland waterways.  That’s how home grown American businesses started.  They were the backbone of the country then and could still be today if we focus on bringing back New York City’s productive idendity.  Note I said productive, not industrial”.

At the end of the night, Abbey gives the impression of an ever creative administrator who would, as he says, “waste no time moving ther whole country away from the influence of the Austrian or Chicago school of economics and replaced with what he called the Anglo-Protestant economic system or APES”.  

As a candidate, he is, without doubt, committed to a safe, secure and sustainable city – where living costs, rates and rent are lowered, and city’s productive identity revived and energized by blockchain technology and cloud architectural capabilities.

He believes in public safety, favor the general well being of all New Yorkers. And promised to work to improve the living experience for retirees, students, city workers and low income families.

“I put New Yorkers first, and I plan to lead the city in a new direction by offering fresh, bold, reasonably green ideas.  A vote for me is a vote for a better life”

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