Black Rock, Buffalo

Black Rock
Neighborhood
Left to right from top: Market Square Historic District, neighborhood sign, 31 Tonawanda Street
Country	United States
State	New York
City	Buffalo
Incorporated (Town)	1839
Annexed (Buffalo)	1853
Government
• Council Member	Joseph Golombek (D)

Black Rock, once an independent municipality,^[1] is now a neighborhood of the northwest section of the city of Buffalo, New York.^[2] In the 1820s, Black Rock was the rival of Buffalo for the terminus of the Erie Canal, but Buffalo, with its larger harbor capacity and greater distance from the shores of Canada, a recent antagonist during the War of 1812, won the competition. Black Rock took its name from a large outcropping of black limestone along the Niagara River, which was blasted away in the early 1820s to make way for the canal.