Swastika is an unincorporated community in the town of Black Brook, Clinton County, New York, United States.[1] The community is 19 miles southwest of Plattsburgh. Like Swastika, Ontario, the community is commonly included on unusual place names lists because of its name.
A post office called Swastika, NY operated from 1913 until 1958.[2] Edward Duprey, the town's last postmaster, told the Plattsburgh Press-Republican that the community was "previously known as Goodrich Mills." "The government sent a list of names," he explained of Swastika's origin. "It had nothing to do with the community. It was just a name for the post office", he added.[3]
In September 2020, the town's councilors unanimously voted to keep the name despite the word's modern associations.[4]