New York does not smell of pee. Many extended experiments with pee and concrete, and pee and tar, have been unable to
discover a way to make it soak into either.
It does soak into clothing though and smells bad when it does. Have you thought about that?
Soaks into dirt, soaks into wood, soaks into drywall, plenty of stuff for stink to soak into. And since NYC has had multiple effluvia crisis (one in the 70s even... regular trash that one, much better than the horse manure crisis of the 19th century) that caused the roads to be lines with refuse stack higher than a person in its long history, there’s been plenty of stink to soak in.