Make the Road New York

About Make the Road New York

Make the Road New York (MRNY) is a nonprofit, grassroots community organization that works to build power among immigrant and working-class communities in pursuit of dignity and justice. Its work combines community organizing, education, health access and legal services, and it reports more than 30,000 members across New York City, Long Island and Westchester. Its legal services program offers free civil legal help to low-income people and, alongside organizers and members, also pursues impact litigation and policy work.

The legal program's listed areas include housing matters such as tenant defense against eviction and overdue repairs, public benefits access, employment and workplace issues such as unpaid wages and workers' compensation claims, civil rights and Know Your Rights training, and immigration representation, including deportation defense and citizenship. The organization's website also describes sister Make the Road organizations in Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Nevada. In New York State it operates neighborhood offices in Bushwick (Brooklyn), Jackson Heights (Queens), Port Richmond (Staten Island), Brentwood (Suffolk County, Long Island) and White Plains (Westchester County), and the services offered differ from office to office.

Practice areas

Areas of work that Make the Road New York describes on its own website. They describe the organization as a whole, not the practice of any individual attorney listed below.

Organization profile based on its official website and public sources (reviewed October 29, 2026). Attorney list from the New York State Unified Court System registration data. Not affiliated with Make the Road New York.

Registered attorneys

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