Manhattan Neighborhood Network

In 2002 MNN had two satellite facilities: one on the Lower East Side, a partnership with the Downtown Community Television Center, one of the city's oldest community media centers; and another in East Harlem, a partnership with PRdream.com, also known as MediaNoche.

This program helped groups to document some of the most historically significant issues of the 1990s and 2000s, including AIDS activism, labor organizing, police brutality, community gardens, immigrants' rights and LGBT rights.

MNN ended the grants program in 2008, which triggered a series of events that resulted in the 2019 US Supreme Court case Manhattan Community Access Corp. v.

The network operates across five channels: MNN1 Community, which chronicles topics from local elections, New York politics and community issues; MNN2 Lifestyle, which explores entertainment about everyday interests from New Yorkers; MNN3 Spirit, which covers spiritual, religious and philosophical matters for various faiths; MNN4 Culture, which broadcasts multilingual arts-oriented programming from the point of view of Manhattan's diverse population; and MNN5 HD, a high-definition channel.

MNN airs more than 10,000 hours of original local programming each year and broadcasts in more than 40 languages.

MNN's studios on 59th Street in midtown Manhattan
MNN Studios on 59th Street
MNN El Barrio Firehouse Community Media Center, which opened in East Harlem in 2012.
MNN has seven studios for community use: a 4-camera open studio, two 3-camera closed studios, and 4 all-in-one "Express" studios.