MT was founded in 2007 when four independent chapters (the oldest founded in 1991) consolidated. Since then, MT has won important victories in many areas, including:

• Immigration: Successfully helping to push the City to create Municipal ID’s open to all New Yorkers regardless of immigration status.

• Public housing:  winning thousands of repairs to leaky pipes, broken elevators, and many other serious problems, exposing the huge repair backlog, ending the use of a dangerous pesticide, winning a settlement to force the housing authority to actually repair mold and moisture, and getting the City to allocate $1 Billion to fix NYCHA roofs.

• Pedestrian safety: Since 2010, MT leaders have worked with the NYC Department of Transportation to win: longer crossing times and countdown timers at over 100 intersections; a major construction project at the base of the Williamsburg Bridge to protect pedestrians; as well as signage and other improvements.
   
• Senior Housing: Helping to win $500 Million for affordable senior housing.
   
• Education: Helping to push the City to make significant improvements to special education.
   
• Gun Safety: Convincing District Attorney Vance and NYPD Commissioner O’Neil  to work with Metro IAF to hold large gun makers accountable.
   
• Neighborhood safety: working with and holding police accountable to deal properly with criminal activity and important quality of life issues.
   
• Helping scores of new leaders develop and strengthen their institutions.

See a more detailed breakdown of MT’s 2017 victories here.
 

Below: The East River Park Amphitheater before and after Lower Manhattan Together leaders successfully fought for the $60 Million Rehabilitation of East River and Seward Parks

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