Established in 1992, Manhattan Neighborhood Network is a media learning, production, and distribution hub that promotes creative expression, independent voices and community engagement.
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Manhattan Neighborhood Network (MNN) was founded in 1992 to provide public access television to Manhattan. For more than 30 years, MNN has helped New Yorkers tell their stories in their own voices through media training, production support, and distribution.
Today, MNN has expanded its role as a force multiplier for New York City’s artists, storytellers, cultural organizations, and communities. Building on its public access legacy, MNN is now also a visual and performing arts presenter, creative production hub, workforce development platform, and civic media organization.
Operating from facilities in Hudson Yards and Harlem, MNN presents and supports screenings, performances, artist residencies, public programs, comedy, documentary storytelling, digital media, and creative technology projects. We provide access to broadcast studios, podcast studios, editing suites, screening rooms, event spaces, and emerging media tools that support film, television, live performance, digital art, XR/VR, virtual production, and community-based media.
MNN remains one of the country’s largest cablecasters of original video programming, with local programming carried in Manhattan and distributed nationally through our program partners to more than 20 million households, as well as globally through livestreaming. At the same time, MNN is growing as a place where New Yorkers gather, create, learn, perform, present work, and participate in civic and cultural life.
MNN works at the intersection of art, technology, storytelling, and civic life.
Through artist residencies, screenings, performances, comedy, creative technology training, workforce development, media production, and public programs, MNN helps creators develop work, reach audiences, and build the skills and relationships that can sustain creative careers.
Our facilities in Harlem and Hudson Yards serve as platforms for artistic experimentation, public presentation, community gathering, civic dialogue, and emerging media production. Whether someone is making a first podcast, producing a documentary, presenting a performance, learning new technology, or sharing a community story, MNN exists to make creative tools and public platforms more accessible.
We're thankful to our partners. They enable us to broaden our impact and deepen our support to our community members.
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