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Save the Date: Upcoming Events with the BRRAlliance
- April 13: Spring Speaker Series #2 – Wonderful Waterfowl of the Niagara
- April 20: Spring Speaker Series #3 – Niagara Musky Association Conservation Efforts
- April 27: Spring Speaker Series #4 – Be in the Know: Environmental Impact Projects Happening in 2024
Spring 2024 Environmental Speaker Series
The BRRAlliance will be holding a Spring environmental speaker series on every Saturday in April. Speakers will cover a range of topics of import for the Buffalo-Erie-Niagara region and the people who live here. All of our presenters and their presentations have been announced – see our events calendar for more!
April 08 2024: Community Eclipse Viewing at Riverside Park
What a day! Despite the cloud cover, lots of people came out to Riverside Park to picnic and view the 2024 solar eclipse! Our view was one of the best in the city, as during totality cloud cover broke several times, allowing glimpses of the eclipse. Wow! A special thank you to the Olmsted Parks Conservancy, City Councilor Joe Golombek, Erie County Legislator Michael Kooshoian, the Buffalo Museum of Science, the Black Rock Historical Society, and our event volunteers for a once-in-a-lifetime event – Buffalo won’t see its next total solar eclipse until October 2144! Hopefully the skies are clear!
Twelve Years of Transformation
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
Our Latest News & Events
April 06 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Black Rock Harbor Center, 52 Amherst St Buffalo, 14207 The BRRAlliance is hosting a Spring environmental speaker series. This is the 3rd in a series of four engagements. Presenter: Scott Kitchen, Treasurer and Conservation Director, Niagara Musky Association Topic: Niagara Musky Association Conservation Efforts See our full event listing for more information on this topic.
Well deserved recognition for our volunteers:
Longtime Alliance Volunteers Recognized by the White House On February 17th the BRRA held a volunteer appreciation event to express our deep gratitude towards our incredible community volunteers. As the BRRA is a [...]
The Blackrock Riverside Alliance Welcomes it’s first Executive Director!
Meet our Executive Director: Anne McCooey Ms. McCooey, a Buffalo native, brings over 30 years of leadership experience to the position of Executive Director. Her extensive resume includes decades in nonprofit senior management [...]
A Day for Celebration!
Yesterday we celebrated the certification of the City of Buffalo as a National Wildlife Federation Community Wildlife Habitat, making our city the 16th largest in the entire country!! We also launched our project to [...]