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Suzannah B. Troy is a New York City-based artist,
activist, and citizen journalist, who has appeared in print,
on the radio, and on television. Her prolific body of
YouTube videos have drawn immense controversy,
including possible censorship.

Suzannah B. Troy

Suzannah B. Troy in New York City.

1 Artistic career
2 Activism
3 Citizen Journalist
3.1 Blogging
3.2 Mobile computing
3.3 Media and political reaction
4 Censorship
5 References
6 External links

Suzannah Troy, multi-media artist (in print and on the web), has had some of her artwork included in the
archives of Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey.[1][2] In 1999, Troy was a speaker at the Fifth
Annual New Jersey Book Arts Symposium.[3][4] In 2001, Troy was a key person in the international public
debate raging at the time about the disputed ownership of artwork by Holocaust victim Bruno Schulz.[5]
Indeed, The New York Times selected Troy's opinions for publication in its editorial pages,[6] and Troy's
letter to the editor was later cited in an essay published in 2005 by The Journal of Textual Reasoning.[7] In
2009, Troy created a poster, "Mayor Bloomberg King of New York, Is Democracy for Sale?" that she
donated to the New-York Historical Society and is now part of the collection. The New York Historical
Society continues to grow to reflect NY's past and present..[8] And Troy has also used the popular video
sharing website YouTube as a platform to create and broadcast original videos. Beginning with her first
YouTube, October 2 2008, Suzannah B. Troy created "Mayor Bloomberg King of New York"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E67PYtwkTUo&feature=youtube_gdata_player . She stated mayor
Bloomberg has decided he is going to be king of New York. He is not going to break any laws to do it, just
just change the laws.
Troy led the on-line resistance against Mike Bloomberg in sheer volume of YouTube and blog posts. May
4,2009 Troy warned her YouTube viewers don't believe what the media is saying. Bloomberg may not win
due to voter anger. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3OLAgH1MJg&feature=youtube_gdata_player and
she was correct. The night of the election Troy pointed out at six pm the press had to go "off script" and
report the election was too close to call.

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A fervent believer in term limits for politicians, Troy has been a vocal critic of members of the New York
City Council and Mayor Michael Bloomberg;[9] some councilmembers and the mayor campaigned for
controversial third terms in political office in the election of November 2009. On October 2, 2008, the same
day that Bloomberg announced that he would seek a controversial third term in office,[9][10] Troy posted her
first YouTube video, "Mayor Bloomberg King of New York," in which she took on the mayor and city
council for their goal of changing the New York City term limits law without a voter referendum.[11] On
October 13, 2008, Katharine Jose of The New York Observer first reported Troy's early opposition to
extending term limits.[12] When the journalist Azi Paybarah reported about the growing opposition to
extending term limits, Paybarah singled out Troy's activism. "And then theres East Village artist Suzannah
B. Troy, whose preferred medium is YouTube." [13] In his article, Paybarah also described the style of Troy's
videos. "Ms. Troy speaks straight to the camera in videos, usually a minute long, that feature little more than
her face, shoulder-length hair and background noise from whatever caf she films from." [13] In November
2010, when New York City voters once again approved a voter referendum to reinstitute term limits, the
Columbia University journalism website NY City Lens interviewed Troy for her perspective about term
limits.[14] A related video report included Troy's commentary and was produced by Columbia Television
News.[15]
In a YouTube documentary, Troy described the conditions that lead her to become an internet activist; in the
video, she described the importance of iPhone, MacBook, and Google technology in fostering her
activism.[16]
This page came under cyber attack and everything about NYPD Rape, Joe Tacopina, Chad Seigel, DSK was
removed with Getty Archive images under artistic career. If anyone knows how to repair please help.

In many of her blog postings and YouTube videos, Troy has made the observation that the mainstream
media has not reported or emphasized political scandals, news stories, or investigations about the
governments of New York City and New York State. Consequently, Troy has used her blogs and YouTube
account to collect and report news and information, to try to create increased transparency in government.
Troy has also had many letters to the editors published in major newspapers. Her first letter ever published
was in The Financial Times weekend edition, June 4, 2000 "Image at the Cutting Edge". She praises William
Packer's description of Lucien Freud's "Naked Portrait" and the FT's courage to run the image of an older
woman, nude with legs akimbo and used a comparison of her art to Freud's to make the points that women
are lagging behind men from basic human rights to economic power as well women's sexuality often viewed
in the most negative ways and shame based. Following the FT, Troy has had her letters published in The
New York Times, The New York Daily News, The New York Post, and The Wall Street Journal.
She has either remarked on news stories about the arts that have been published in previous editions of
newspapers,[6] expressed concern about the dangers of rapid over-development,[17] or she commented on
current events, such as the controversial firehouse closings in New York City,[18] and a powerful letter on
4/27/2005 "Betrayal at Ground Zero" in The Wall Street Journal, respectively. Troy has been notable for,
among other things, having had to date nine letters to the editor published by The New York Times.[6][19]
[20][21][22][23][24][25][26]

Maverick consultant and journalist Gary Tilzer, as described by Michael Powell of The New York Times,
praises Suzannah B. Troy's citizen journalism. He writes, "In One Generation Reporters Have Gone From
Seekers of the Truth to Press Agents to Pols" and he describes Ms. Troy's confrontation with Christine
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Quinn by writing, "Unlike reporters, blogger Suzannah Troy questioned Quinn forcefully about issues the
speaker does not want to answer. Blogger Troy has made it her mission to expose Quinn and other corrupt
pols. She has attacked the speaker for allowing a St Vincents Hospital located in her district to close and
then taking money from the Rudin family who will make millions by building condominiums on the site of
the closed hospitals." Tilzer goes on to praise Rafael Martnez Alequn along with Troy and points out
Bloomberg banned Alequn from his press conferences and blocked a renewal of his press pass, until civil
rights lawyer Norman Siegel brought a lawsuit. http://truenewsfromchangenyc.blogspot.com/2012/05
/ms-quinn-you-work-for-people-of-new.html

Blogging
Troy publishes or contributes to several blogs using the Blogger service.[27] Aside from her political and
artistic blogs, Troy also films, edits, and produces videos that she posts onto YouTube; many of these videos
are political in nature. In her original journalistic YouTube videos, Troy has interviewed such important
politicians and notable citizen-activists as Henry Stern,[28] a former New York City Councilmember and
former Commissioner of the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, as well as Clayton
Patterson,[29] a New York City artist and photographer. As of September 2010, her body of YouTube videos
have been viewed more than 200,000 times.[30]
Troy has filmed and posted on her blogs confronting Mayor Bloomberg from the steps of City Hall shouting
"Oust the king". Mayor Bloomberg's response was to give Ms. Troy the thumbs up signal. She has also
confronted Dave Paterson, Christine Quinn, David Dinkins, and Bill Rudin, filming them on her iPhone and
then directly posting to YouTube and her blogs. Dave Paterson was confronted as he entered WOR and he
denied Troy's charges that he protected his best friend and employee Dave Johnson keeping him on the
payroll as long as possible. Six foot 9, Dave Johnson would later plead guilty to spousal abuse. Troy yelled
down Christine Quinn which got her a meeting at City Hall with Norman Siegel at her side regarding St.
Vincent's Hospital and the Rudin Luxury condo conversion. Both Dave Dinkins and Bill Rudin also refused
to answer Troy's hard hitting questions.
Some journalism websites have reprinted excerpts of Troy's blogs. The SoHo Journal featured some of
Troy's writings about the CityTime payroll system scandal.[31]

Mobile computing
Troy has used Mobile computing, such as Smartphones, to be able to create live videos during political
events and post them from the street directly onto YouTube. By using Mobile technology, Troy has reported
news events over the Internet almost instantaneously.[32] One such example of her use of mobile computing
was a series of YouTube videos Troy created outside a debate for New York City Council on August 13,
2009, where Troy used an iPhone to report about controversial activities used by New York University and
The Villager newspaper to limit the size of the debate audience.[33] The Huffington Post later reported that,
"NYU security closed the doors, barring dozens of people in line from entry, including several credentialed
members of the press."[34] The Huffington Post reported that activists, "many equipped with iPhones and
video cameras," helped to get a wheelchair-bound man into the debate, in spite of the controversial audience
limitations;[34] among the activists was Troy.[35]

Media and political reaction

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Village section of Manhattan, Troy was interviewed by NY1, to provide a prospective on the crumbling
infrastructure of New York City.[37] In October 2007, Troy confronted Mayor Bloomberg on the John
Gambling radio show (at 29:58) about over-development in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan.[38]
On October 2008, one of Troy's YouTube videos was mentioned in The New York Observer newspaper.[13]
During 2009, she was further mentioned by The New York Observer.[39][40][41] Some of her original
journalistic reports and videos have been reposted on the websites of mainstream media companies. For
example, her 2010 interview with Stern, the former Park Commissioner, was republished on the website of
the public radio station WNYC.[42] Other times, Troy's activism has been the subject of news that have been
reported about by the media. On January 1, 2010, Richard H. Cohen, who contributes photographs and
images to the Corbis news service, photographed Troy at a one-woman protest of the swearing-in ceremony
of New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg.[43] Troy's YouTube videos have also been rebroadcast over
the Internet by journalism sites, such as the SoHo Journal.[44][45][46][47][48]
Troy has used her blog to post her YouTube videos, which protest Mayor Bloomberg's change of term limits.
[49][50] For his part, Mayor Bloomberg has made remarks to the press, expressing his dislike of bloggers,
who have been critical of the mayor ; the mayor has called such bloggers, "lawless partisans."[51][52]

From September 22 through September 23, 2009, one of Troy's primary platforms, her YouTube account,
was suspended by YouTube.[53][54][55] Upon reporting the news of the YouTube account suspension,
Paybarah wrote that, "The YouTube account for one of Michael Bloombergs most prolific, and eccentric,
critics has been suspended." [55] According to Paybarah's article, Troy said that she believed that the
suspension was a violation of her freedom of speech.[55] After the intervention of New York City-bloggers
and legal advisers, including attorney Norman Siegel, Troy's YouTube account, which included over 300
videos, was restored.[56][57] According to the examples listed on Wikipedia's own page about Criticisms of
Google, very few accounts suspended for alleged political reasons by YouTube are ever resolved with the
resumption and full restoration of the formerly suspended YouTube account.[58]
Direct quote from March 2011 "Bloomberg's Bubble Burst " article written by Fred Siegel and Sol Stern
published in both The Commentary and The New York Post
"Both sources of revenue, private and public, were used to co-opt and silence his opposition and thereby
allow the glamorized portrait of an indispensable manager and the guardian of the public purse to be drawn
without countervailing criticism".
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/article/the-bloomberg-bubble-bursts/
http://m.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists
/bloomy_bubble_bursts_rBwqNm47nQzoGDW0gHWEUM
Ms. Troy suffered further censorship in September 2010 when this Wikipedia page was removed. Two Wiki
accounts demanding immediate removal for lack of notability were subsequently exposed as sock puppet
accounts by a Wikipedia editor.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Suzannah_B._Troy#Suzannah_B._Troy

1. "New Jersey Book Arts Archive". Rutgers University Libraries. Retrieved 2010-09-17.

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2. "New Jersey Book Arts Archive". Institute for Women & Art at Rutgers. Retrieved 2010-09-17.
3. "Pictures From The Fifth Annual New Jersey Book Arts Symposium". The New Jersey Book Arts Symposium.
Retrieved 2010-09-16.
4. "Res Ipsa Loquitur: The Thing Speaks For Itself". Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Retrieved
2010-09-17.
5. "Bruno Schulz a Schulzoidzi". BrunoSchulz.org. Retrieved 2010-09-17.
6. "The Battle Over the Murals of Pain". The New York Times. Retrieved 2010-09-04.
7. "Faces in the Textual Neighborhood: Two Poles and a Lithuanian". The Journal of Textual Reasoning. Retrieved
2010-09-16.
8. "Mayor Bloomberg King of New York Is democracy for sale? in NY Historical society". YouTube. Retrieved
2009-09-24.
9. "OpinionVoice of the People for September 23, 2008". The New York Daily News. Retrieved 2010-09-17.
10. "Bloomberg Says He Wants a Third Term as Mayor". The New York Times. Retrieved 2010-09-15.
11. "Mayor Bloomberg "King of New York" ". YouTube. Retrieved 2009-09-24.
12. "Elsewhere: Penn on Obama and the Economy, Thompson on Running Against Bloomberg". The New York
Observer. Retrieved 2010-09-15.
13.
14. "New Yorkers Vote 'Yes' to a 2-Term Limit". NYCityLens. Retrieved 2011-02-06.
15. "New Yorkers Vote 'Yes' to a Two-Term Limit". Vimeo. Retrieved 2011-02-06.
16. "With Blogs, iPhone, and MacBook, Suzannah B. Troy is revolutionising NY politics". YouTube. Retrieved
2010-09-02.
17. "Voice of the People". The New York Daily News. Retrieved 2010-09-17.
18. "Betrayal at Ground Zero". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2010-09-04.
19. "Police and Fire Pay Raises". The New York Times. Retrieved 2010-09-17.
20. "WOMEN'S PORN; Come Up and See Us". The New York Times. Retrieved 2010-09-17.
21. "Why the Fire Marshal Must Stay in the Bronx". The New York Times. Retrieved 2010-09-17.
22. "Grunts and Groans". The New York Times. Retrieved 2010-09-17.
23. "Choosing to Die". The New York Times. Retrieved 2010-09-17.
24. "LARS VON TRIER; Dane, Go Home". The New York Times. Retrieved 2010-09-17.
25. "The Young Arabs Who Hate Us". The New York Times. Retrieved 2010-09-17.
26. "A City Budget, and the Cries of Pain". The New York Times. Retrieved 2010-09-17.
27. "Blogger User Profile Suzannah B. Troy". Blogger. Retrieved 2010-09-04.
28. "Bloomberg Charter Revision Henry Stern interviewed by Suzannah B. Troy democracy compromised again".
YouTube. Retrieved 2010-09-02.
29. "Clayton Patterson, artist, documentor of Lower East Side, activist on Mayor Bloomberg". YouTube. Retrieved
2010-09-02.
30. "Total Upload Views: 201,456". YouTube. Retrieved 2010-09-02.
31. "Two Outlooks on the City Time Scandal". SoHo Journal. Retrieved 2011-02-06.
32. "Christine Quinn protest part2". YouTube. Retrieved 2010-09-04.
33. "NYU The Villager denies democracy people entry to Christine Quinn debate with opponents". YouTube.
Retrieved 2010-09-04.
34. "Public, Press Barred From Debate For Quinn Seat". The Huffington Post. Retrieved 2010-09-04.
35. "NYU rep and The Villager turns away handicap community member". YouTube. Retrieved 2010-09-04.
36. "Zwischen Trauer und Tatkraft". Stern. Retrieved 2010-09-27.
37. "East Village Water Main Break Leaves Thousands Without Water". NY1. Retrieved 2010-09-18.
38. "Live from City Hall with Mayor Mike and John Gambling - October 19, 2007". WOR via NYC.gov. Retrieved
2010-09-21.
39. "Elsewhere: Palin on Kennedy". The New York Observer. Retrieved 2010-09-21.
40. "Morning Read: Bloomberg's Popularity, Spitzer's Name". The New York Observer. Retrieved 2010-09-21.
41. "Elsewhere: The Unemployment Rate, The Jobs and Education Party". The New York Observer. Retrieved
2010-09-21.
42. "Bloomberg Critic Interviews Henry Stern". WNYC. Retrieved 2010-09-02.
43. "USA - Politics - New York Mayor Bloomberg Sworn In". Corbis. Retrieved 2010-09-04.
44. "AN ARTIST VOTES... AND PROTESTS AGAINST BLOOMBERG.". SoHo Journal. Retrieved 2010-09-16.
45. "Political Artist S. Troy: A DOB Violation Database?". SoHo Journal. Retrieved 2010-09-16.
46. "Political Artist S. Troy: Senate Shutdown and Depression?". SoHo Journal. Retrieved 2010-09-17.
47. "SUZANNAH B. TROY: "IS DEMOCRACY FOR SALE?" ". SoHo Journal. Retrieved 2010-09-17.
48. "Political Artist S. Troy: "Why is Patterson Still Here?". SoHo Journal. Retrieved 2010-09-17.
49. "The People of New York Term Limits democracy and our rights violated by Mike Bloomberg's minions".

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