SmithieForMayor NYC 2025

Why New Yorkers' vote better life.

NEW YORK CITY, NY / ACCESS Newswire / July 28, 2025 / 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.

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SOURCE: Abbey S Laurel-Smith