[2] As well as residential complexes, the area has a large retail park with the same name.

The area, whose name means "black bridge"[3] in English, was named after a stone bridge over the nearby railway line from Prague to Čelákovice, which was blackened by smoke from passing steam locomotives.

The area was newly formed from parts of the former suburbs of Hloubětín, Kyje and Horní Počernice in 1987.

The second section, sídliště Černý Most II, was started in 1985 under the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, but not completed until 1992 after the Velvet Revolution had ended Communist rule.

The streets were originally to be named after Communist officials, mostly from the Soviet Union.