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Save the Date: Upcoming Events with the BRRAlliance

Nov 20 2024 – Really Really Free Market/Rediscover Riverside @ St. Marks and All Saints Episcopal Church

Really Really Free Market – November 20, 2024

So nice, we’re doing it twice in a month!

November 20, 2024 – Setup @ 4:30 PM, Market from 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM.
Location: St. Mark’s and All Saints Episcopal Church, 311 Ontario St., Buffalo NY 14207.

This will be followed by the Rediscover Riverside meeting at the same location, but attendees will be able to continue browsing after the meeting.

Bring items that are still useful that you no longer want or need such as clean clothes, functioning appliances, and old toys to be rehomed with others that can use them – and in turn look for things you might want or need; really, really free!

Please stick around to collect any of your items that are not taken by another visitor or picked up for donations.

Refreshments will be served at the Rediscover Riverside meeting. Please bring donations for the food pantry if you are able!

2024 Urban Treks Challenge

A huge huge thank you to all our finishers, everyone who signed up for this year’s challenge, and to Outside Chronicles who helped make it all possible. It was a great year!

We’ll see everyone on the city trails next year!

Scajaquada Full Circle Speaker Series

Thank you so much to everyone who attended the Scajaquada Full Circle Speaker Series! It was our pleasure to join forces with the Black Rock Historical Society and Scajaquada Corridor Coalition to bring this series to you!

This series was sponsored by the generosity of the Baird Foundation, City of Buffalo Common Councilor Joseph Golombek and the ECEMC.

Click here for more information!

A Message From our President

Greetings from the Black Rock Riverside Alliance Board of Directors!

It has been a little while since our neighbors heard from me so I thought I would check in with an update on some of our progress during 2023.

Over the past several months, the BRRA has been fast at work getting our new headquarters, the Black Rock Harbor Center, up to its “fully armed and operational” status. We have tenants, including key partnerships with like-minded nonprofits, and are actively running programming and community events from our very own space. These efforts run in tandem with our curation of the other community spaces under our charge, including regular events at Market Square Park and the maintenance of our beloved community gardens.

In terms of programming, the Alliance successfully recertified Erie County and the City of Buffalo as NWF Wildlife Habitats, as part of our ongoing support of the Habitat Project. We also continue to support Niagara County and other neighboring counties in their certification efforts. Efforts to implement our most recent Main Street Grant revitalization initiative are in full swing and should wrap up this summer. In the meantime, we had time to hold an outrageously fun meat raffle, participated in the Give716 event for 7/16 Day, and are planning the Second Annual River Rock Run in the fall.

If you are interested in getting involved please let us know. We are always on the lookout for new volunteers at every level, especially more community volunteers to help maintain the gardens and particularly engaged (or vocal) stakeholders at the Board Committee and Board of Directors level. Your help is greatly needed and appreciated!”

-Deneb Pirrone
President, Black Rock Riverside Alliance