North Tonawanda is a city in Niagara County, New York, United States.

After the first settlers arrived in 1809, North Tonawanda became part of the town of Wheatfield, New York in Niagara County, from May 1836.

The experiment was abandoned after New York State removed the village's North Tonawanda component.

Oral history claims a dispute between merchants was the cause, but the combination of communities in two counties and two towns was unwieldy.

After becoming a village on May 8, 1865 (still in the Town of Wheatfield, but as part of Martinsville, New York), North Tonawanda was incorporated as a City on April 24, 1897.

Richardson Boat, Buffalo Bolt, Durez Chemical, National Grinding Wheel, Taylor Devices, International Paper, Tonawanda Iron & Steel, Riverside Chemical, and hundreds of other successful manufacturing businesses called North Tonawanda home.

The Riviera Theater and Performing Arts Center on Webster Street, in a restored Italian Renaissance-style building, features plays, concerts, movies and other events, and its 1926 "Mighty Wurlitzer" organ is featured in monthly organ concerts.

The theater is one of only a handful in the United States with projectors capable of showing nitrate film prints in common use before about 1951.

Green designed building houses the Buffalo Suzuki Strings Musical Arts Center.

The North Tonawanda History Museum no longer occupies the former G. C. Murphy Co. store building on Webster Street in the heart of the Downtown Historic District.

The western edge of the city is defined by the Niagara River and a line that runs just west of and parallel to Witmer Road.

It is open three days a week year round but busiest in the summer and early fall, when more than 70 area farmers sell there.

[8][9][10] The old Wurlitzer Organ Factory which is now leased to various light industrial, high technology, and commercial businesses.