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Niagara Falls Station and Customhouse Interpretive Center

Niagara Falls
Niagara Falls new Amtrak station.jpg
The new station under construction in July 2016.
Location 825 Depot Ave West, Niagara Falls, New York
United States
Coordinates 43°06′35″N 79°03′19″W / 43.10972°N 79.05528°W / 43.10972; -79.05528Coordinates: 43°06′35″N 79°03′19″W / 43.10972°N 79.05528°W / 43.10972; -79.05528
Owned by City of Niagara Falls
Line(s) Empire Corridor (Niagara Subdivision)
Platforms 1 side platform
Tracks 2
Bus operators Bus transport Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority logo.png Route 50
Bus transport Discover Niagara
Construction
Parking Free
Bicycle facilities Yes
Disabled access Yes
Other information
Station code Amtrak code: NFL
History
Opened December 6, 2016
Traffic
Passengers (2016) 29,647 Decrease 6.9%
Services
Preceding station   BSicon LOGO Amtrak2.svg Amtrak   Following station
Terminus Empire Service
toward Toronto
Maple Leaf
U.S. Customhouse
US Customhouse, Niagara Falls.jpg
U.S. Customhouse, June 2009. Note the railroad bridge on the right, then partially obscured by trees.
Location 2245 Whirlpool St., Niagara Falls, New York
Area less than one acre
Built 1863
NRHP reference # 73001227
Added to NRHP July 16, 1973
Location
Niagara Falls is located in New York
Niagara Falls
Niagara Falls
Location within New York

The Niagara Falls Station and Customhouse Interpretive Center is an intermodal transit complex in Niagara Falls, New York. It serves Amtrak trains and Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority buses, and also houses U.S. Customs and Border Protection offices servicing the Canada–United States border, as well as other facilities. It is on Amtrak's Empire Corridor and serves two Empire Service trains in each direction (terminating westbound) and one Maple Leaf in each direction daily. The station also provides a connection to NFTA Route 50 and the Discover Niagara Shuttle buses.

The facility consists of a complex built around the historic U.S. Customhouse, originally designed to service the U.S. side of the Niagara River border crossings from Canada. Completed in July 2016, the facility replaced Amtrak's former Niagara Falls station for passenger rail service on December 6, 2016. and also includes U.S. Customs and Border Protection, bus service, and a soon to be opened museum on the Underground Railroad.

To handle the large amount of goods exchanged over the border, the Lewiston customs house—the primary customs for the Niagara region—was relocated from Lewiston, NY to the Niagara Suspension Bridge in 1863. The customhouse served inspectors for the Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge, Niagara Cantilever Bridge, Whirlpool Rapids Bridge, and Michigan Central Railway Bridge at various points in its history. With Niagara Falls receiving the second highest amounts of American imports at one point, the customhouse was once a very busy post for its inspectors. In 1911 the building was partially destroyed by fire but later rebuilt. Remaining in a US Customs capacity until the 1960s, it was sold to several different commercial owners before it was originally abandoned in 1998.


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