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I'm from and worked at the falls as a teenager. This was one of my favorite stories to tell to tourists because it's just so interesting. The Falls are more imp

by jjice 3y ago

I'm from and worked at the falls as a teenager. This was one of my favorite stories to tell to tourists because it's just so interesting. The Falls are more important than one may expect to NY since we generate a lot of hydro-electric power. It really is a beautiful piece of nature that you take for granted when you spend your whole life around it. Anecdotally, if you visit, Canada gets a nice view of the American Falls and their surrounding tourist attractions are nicer. The American side gets real sketchy if you go about seven blocks up from the park.

Scoundreller 3y ago
> The American side gets real sketchy if you go about seven blocks up from the park. The same is true on the Canadian side, but Canadian sketchy is nothing like US sketchy.
- euroderf 3y ago
  On the American side, Goat Island is very nice. You can even walk into the river if you're sufficiently foolish, and from there you can just about throw a rock over the falls. The Canadian side is pretty heavily commercialized.
  - cf100clunk 3y ago
    There are vast tracts of green space on the Canadian side all the way from Fort Erie to Niagara-On-The-Lake, so if you want to avoid the heavily commercialized areas just don't go into the parts of the city of Niagara Falls, Ontario that are right up against the Niagara River and below the Falls.
tharmas 3y ago
Both sides have seen significant industrial decline but the American side much worse, as I believe it was more industrialized to begin with. Moreover, there are not a lot of geographic alternatives on the Canadian side in comparison. Western New York has been decimated by de-industrialization whereas Niagara on the Canadian side is on the orbital fringe of the economic powerhouse of Toronto, essentially the NYC of Canada.
cf100clunk 3y ago
Also tell tourists about the Schoellkopf Power Station disaster on the U.S. side of Niagara Falls in 1956: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29051567 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29051567

by jjice 3y ago

Scoundreller 3y ago

> The American side gets real sketchy if you go about seven blocks up from the park. The same is true on the Canadian side, but Canadian sketchy is nothing like US sketchy.

euroderf 3y ago
On the American side, Goat Island is very nice. You can even walk into the river if you're sufficiently foolish, and from there you can just about throw a rock over the falls. The Canadian side is pretty heavily commercialized.
- cf100clunk 3y ago
  There are vast tracts of green space on the Canadian side all the way from Fort Erie to Niagara-On-The-Lake, so if you want to avoid the heavily commercialized areas just don't go into the parts of the city of Niagara Falls, Ontario that are right up against the Niagara River and below the Falls.

tharmas 3y ago

Both sides have seen significant industrial decline but the American side much worse, as I believe it was more industrialized to begin with. Moreover, there are not a lot of geographic alternatives on the Canadian side in comparison. Western New York has been decimated by de-industrialization whereas Niagara on the Canadian side is on the orbital fringe of the economic powerhouse of Toronto, essentially the NYC of Canada.

cf100clunk 3y ago

Also tell tourists about the Schoellkopf Power Station disaster on the U.S. side of Niagara Falls in 1956: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29051567 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29051567