Unattended Death and Biohazard Cleanup in Niagara Falls, NY

Niagara Falls, New York is the American city beside the famous waterfalls of the same name, sitting on the Niagara River in Niagara County directly across from its twin city, Niagara Falls, Ontario.

The City of Niagara Falls was incorporated on March 17, 1892 — St. Patrick's Day — by merging the villages of Manchester and Suspension Bridge, and George W. Wright became its first mayor.

Niagara Falls had 48,671 residents in the 2020 Census, a steep fall from its industrial boom years, as the city's population roughly halved between the 1960s and 2012.

The waterfalls themselves were carved out about 12,000 years ago when melting glacial ice sent Lake Erie overflowing into the Niagara River and over the Niagara Escarpment.

Tourism is the city's main industry today, and the falls and city together draw nearly ten million visitors a year, keeping Niagara Falls among the top ten tourist destinations in the United States.

Niagara Falls State Park, created in 1885 as the Niagara Reservation after the 'Free Niagara' campaign led by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, is the oldest state park in the United States and keeps the falls' shoreline free and open to the public.

The city's classic attractions include the Maid of the Mist boat tour and the Cave of the Winds, which take visitors to the base of the American Falls and Bridal Veil Falls.

Niagara Falls is nicknamed the 'Honeymoon Capital of the World' and 'Cataract City,' a nod to both its wedding tourism and the cataracts of the falls themselves.

Cheap hydroelectric power from the Niagara River made the city a manufacturing boomtown — the New York Power Authority's giant Niagara power plant, opened in the 1960s, fed factories making chemicals, abrasives, and metals — before industry declined in the 1970s.

Niagara University, a Catholic university founded in 1856 by the Congregation of the Mission, sits just north of the city and grew out of the Seminary of Our Lady of Angels.